{"id":27867,"date":"2020-07-29T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=27867"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:53:39","slug":"visual-artists-will-switch-to-outdoor-sculpture-due-to-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/visual-artists-will-switch-to-outdoor-sculpture-due-to-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual artists will switch to outdoor sculpture due to plague?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With art museums closed or compromised (regulated pre-arranged visit times, masks, etc.) and art galleries damaged by the destruction of American retail, will visual artists switch to outdoor sculpture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If most people with money flee the cities to suburban or country estates, and then spend a lot of time imprisoned in their yards, that&#8217;s a big market for attractive sculpture, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/stormking.org\/\">Storm King Art Center<\/a>, now somewhat reopened (good day trip due to being adjacent to a near-infinite-length runway at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnav.com\/airport\/KSWF\">KSWF<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaart.org\/\">Dia:Beacon<\/a> will reopen August 7):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-1520x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27890\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-1520x1140.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6207-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(you may be able to park next to Donald Trump&#8217;s family Boeing 757 at KSWF, which is where it lives)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With art museums closed or compromised (regulated pre-arranged visit times, masks, etc.) and art galleries damaged by the destruction of American retail, will visual artists switch to outdoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture-movies","category-coronapanic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Visual artists will switch to outdoor sculpture due to plague? 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