Dear Aunt Art Agony,
I am on a committee for the art gallery. We look at art and decide if the gallery can have it forever. Sometimes the gallery buys it and sometimes the artist just gives it for free.
The businessman from the Board talks alot. He made a joke, "Our Director routinely rapes the budget, doesn't he?" The Director blushed and laughed too. The Director is gay. I asked, "Did you say rape?" The man laughed again and said, "Yeah, he just rapes it!!"
Aunt Agony, I am sick to my stomach. What does rape have to do with art committees?
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Gentle Reader,
It would indeed be inflammatory to compare a local businessman to Josef Stalin. This is something we would never in a million light-years condescend to imply.
However, just for the sake of a more exciting afternoon, why not toddle down that road?
These Coryphaei of Science demand attention from groups. These Fathers of Nations command the social agenda. These Brilliant Geniuses of Humanity display arrogance and stupidity. These Great Architects of Business are homophobic and do not seem to know it. These Gardeners of Human Happiness think that assault on women is funny. These Harbingers of Life and Sun link sexual violence to sloppy math. These Liberators of Nations want everyone to listen to them and to do what they want.
Businessman makes people frightened. Businessman prevents constructive discussion. Businessman does not seem to care for other people's feelings. Businessman gets all that he desires.
If we may whisper quickly a wild conjecture...might a rich white man who has never learnt a thing be a tad out-of-place in an artistic setting? Ergo, perhaps this caused Businessman to attempt elementary capitalist agit prop. If women, queers and artists are all overcome by his nauseating wit, he then feels right at home.
The latter about which we shudder to think.
rape has nothing to do with this...he is out of his depth and is doing the typical "bad kid in the class" distraction tactic so you won't notice that he doesn't know a thing about what is worth keeping or buying for the collection.
this is an acquisition committee and i would talk to to the chair about getting on with business..you have no time for such distractions....even he should understand that there is time a wasting!!!
If the Director is chairing the committee then suggest that you could take a turn Chairing, and then run a tight ship and leave no time for stupid cracks. That will give the director a chance to explain his recommendations.
This is business...find out your budget, your goals for acquisition, the value and provenance and position of the work in question in the cultural scene...then make decisions based on data not other concerns. Present it as a budget decision which the businessman should understand. The Director might be making decisions that he doesn't understand and the Director should be making his decisions transparent, that is, there should be a list of reasons from the art world that explain why to buy or accept for donation, a work.
very clever analysis! good recommendations too.
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