Comments on: Elephant to Participate in Dumbo Arts Festival This Weekend

By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » Dumbo’s Cultural Director Zannah Mass Departs (DumboNYC.com)

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:20:21 +0000

[...] She is credited with building up DUMBO First Thursdays, co-producing the Dumbo Arts Festival, bringing a live elephant to Dumbo, the main sponsor’s rep and an advisor of the New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, among others. [...]

By: DumboPainter

DumboPainter — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:55:43 +0000

This is SO depressing. It is things like this that often enhance the idea of the artist as bumbling idiot and that what they make, especially if it is abstract, could be made by anyone, or anything for that matter. What a joke! I'm sure you could put a piano in front of the elephant and he could hit the keys with his trunk too, but would you call it music? This is up there with child “prodigies” that make “abstract” paintings. Until the elephants (or children) start making actual, sophisticated decisions, and not just do what they've been told, I'm not buying it.

By: A peeve of mine

A peeve of mine — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:47:59 +0000

[...] Basically at the festival one of the “artists” had an elephant that painted. Like a live elephant that had a paint brush and swiped it on a [...]

By: Chow

Chow — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:39:29 +0000

Good riddance.

By: mike alan

mike alan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:21:35 +0000

this is all verry sad….glad to move my event.

By: Agreed

Agreed — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:11:55 +0000

Jacinta Lynch:

The art’s in the analysis. You rule.

By: Jacinta Lynch

Jacinta Lynch — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:19:03 +0000

ps: u r wrong. My support of DAC is not thinly veiled – it is explicit. As is my support for smack mellon and st. ann’s – the other fronts for the evil walentas empire. Sounds like u have personal scores to settle. Bye.

By: Jacinta Lynch

Jacinta Lynch — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:51:37 +0000

I am checking out Cuba and N. Korea so that by making art I never have to worry that it increases the value of anyone’s property.

By: just do it

just do it — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:33:10 +0000

“genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration”

why don’t the artist that are complaining throw a festival that is art worthy?

also, does walentas still give rent subsidies to artist? that’s kinda cool, no?

By: jane

jane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:43:30 +0000

I went to the draw-a-thon it was the only thing in the nieghboorhood were i felt artists from dumbo were gathering to make art….get your head out your a** and check out the draw-a-thon and find creativity in abundance
dumbo is doomed and soho is coming
i agre that the new dac peole really f***ed up the art fair and had a dumbo craft fair….where any of the video artists from dumbo? was the elephent from dumbo???/
why dont they reach out to the ten last dumbo artists and throw a real festiva;/./////and besides that was the music?>
it was at the draw-a-thon and music is art!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: I actually went...

I actually went... — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:12:57 +0000

How predictable – all knee jerk reaction, all the facts wrong and you’ve missed the point completely. The event invited the droves of people eating cheese in front of Foragers, staring up an elephant’s ass and wondering how long before your studio is converted so they could buy it to actually make some art. There was nothing sleazy about it. I went and it was all about community, making art, having fun and trying something different. You should really check it out sometime.

Peace out.
(p.s. it only cost $10)

By: AislingFitzpatrick

AislingFitzpatrick — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:33:44 +0000

Jacinta: If, for you, the biggest downer in Dumbo is the nude drawing at Rebar, you really have no idea what is happening in Dumbo. No one is implying that Dumbo artists are “holy victims.” The only thing that was said above is that the arts festival is not about art, but rather the gross promotion of real estate. Anyone who says otherwise is naive beyond comprehension or a shill (knowing or not) for developers. Your thinly-veiled promotion of DAC says all I need to know about you. As an aside, having made the rounds today in support of the artists who have generously opened their studios, one glaring difference I notice this year from years past, is that it was difficult to come upon Festival maps because DAC (particularly under their new leadership) does such a horrible job of promoting open studios. The festival this year is more of a street fair than it’s ever been. Note the elephant.

By: Agreed

Agreed — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:10:09 +0000

Jacinta Lynch:

Have to agree with you; the Draw-a-thon is way lame. Take an academic exercise that went out of fashion with Thomas Eakins and spice it up with some melodramatic tableaux and 21st-century objectification. Yawn.

By: Jacinta Lynch

Jacinta Lynch — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:23:33 +0000

So Dumbo artists are holy victims? I left Dumbo for the Navyyard after getting screwed over by two artists in sublet/share arrangements in Dumbo. Last night I saw a terrific performance by Duran Jackson, an amzing installation at Video Dumbo on Front St. and A.K Burns super cool works in a show at DAC. The biggest downer for me is at Rebar, where “artists” – male of course – are running a weekend Drawathon for $50 a head, use the word “nudity” on every flyer and call it an art event, which serves artists, when it’s nothing more than a sleazy tits ‘n beer show. Oh yeah, I hear Tom Otterness is now collaborating with Walentas on a project.

By: Didi

Didi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:58:09 +0000

“It is things like this that often enhance the idea of the artist as bumbling idiot”

Probably not. But the comments here enhance the idea of the artist as a whiny killjoy.