Dakek Madonna and Child...

[fajrdrako]

silverwhistle sent me an article from The Guardian about the Koestler awards, an annual award given to people in prisons for achievement in art. I heartily approve of such programs. The hook here was an exhibit of the winners at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, which featured, among other items, a sculpture called Madonna and Child:



I wonder why the website (and the article) fail to identify the artist. Don't prisoners get credited?

Which I'd say was worth the price of admission. But don't talk to me about price of admission: I just learned that the exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization that I'd wanted to see, of Chinese art, costs $20 for entry. I just can't afford that. I am seriously miffed at the increasing inaccessibility of museums and galleries in Canada due to high entrance fees - aren't they still funded by our taxes? I know travelling exhibits are expensive and China is far away, but $20 per person seems to me excessive.

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It does feel like these collections that we pay for through our tax dollars are only accessible to the quite-comfortably-off.

Is $15 for the Renoir exhibit also too pricey?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

$15 for Renoir isn't so bad, but it's still high enough to be discouraging, to make me start doing the arithmetic for entertainment-vs-food and decide the sacrifice is too much to be worth it. I think I'd accept $10 comfortably enough and without complaint. It's not so much a matter of whether the exhibit is "worth it" (both are essentially invaluable) but the level of sacrifice it entails in budgeting to be able to see it.