Nothing odd about this guy.
Posted on 09/16/2011 1:41:57 PM PDT by Baladas
A sculptor who shot a dog for an art film in the 1970s has won a $750,000 contract to create public art for the Central Subway.
Tom Otterness, a Brooklyn-based artist, has created public art all over Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States, with an emphasis on New York City.
But he garnered notoriety in 1977 when he adopted a black-and-white dog from an animal shelter and shot it to death with the camera rolling. The footage ended up in his avant-garde movie "Shot Dog Film."
Otterness has since apologized, telling the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 2008, "Thirty years ago when I was 25 years old, I made a film in which I shot a dog. It was an indefensible act that I am deeply sorry for. Many of us have experienced profound emotional turmoil and despair. Few have made the mistake I made. I hope people can find it in their hearts to forgive me."
For the Central Subway, Otterness will receive $750,000 to create a series of humorous bronze sculptures of transit riders. The news was first reported by the San Francisco Examiner.
Kate Patterson, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Arts Commission, said the judging panel was not aware of the controversial film when it made its selection in July 2010.
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My husband and I refuse to play the game. So, sometimes we get produced and sometimes we don’t - lots of times we don’t, lol. We just produced a show that starred one major actor who had the good taste and talent to appreciate the play we urged him to do. He did it and got slammed by the New York Times. What a business!
He was just filming a video resume for the local SWAT team.
I always despised that magazine cover. Actually, I always despised that magazine. Some good talent came out of it to go on to actually do some funny stuff but that ‘zine was a piece of unfunny trash.
Or give it to an animal shelter. One that doesn’t euthanize.
“As someone in the arts field, I’ll tell you how it works”
I have many friends in the art field and how it works is that young “artists” usually without talent get showings and publicity by performing sexual favors for the right people. Either that or they have backers who use influence or money to get them noticed. The art world is totally corrupt.
Shooting a dog probably pleased the sick a**holes who control arts funding but it was other connections that made him get the $750,000 in taxpayer funds.
LOL
“As someone in the arts field, I’ll tell you how it works”
I have many friends in the art field and how it works is that young “artists” usually without talent get showings and publicity by performing sexual favors for the right people. Either that or they have backers who use influence or money to get them noticed. The art world is totally corrupt.
Shooting a dog probably pleased the sick a**holes who control arts funding but it was other connections that made him get the $750,000 in taxpayer funds.
Tom Otterness, you are a scumbag!!!
This is exactly why I don’t like my tax money going to the private sector as pork. It always comes down to a politician giving other people’s money that they have no control over to a connected crony / businessman / artist in return for something and favors.
This artist is a connected crony. He was picked because he knew someone. This is how business gets done with government.
If he got $750K it should come from private donations not taxpayers.
It is an perverted outrage hearing that he shot this shelter dog to make a video.
What a sadistic bastard. Adopt a poor pound puppy and then shoot it. His commission should be yanked ASAP. I am sharing this on SPCA site right now.
If he'd held one's head under water until it drowned, slammed another repeatedly to the ground until it died, electrocuted a third . . . and run the personal canine body count into the teens or higher, he could play quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
You do know that occasionally talented people work their way through the system, don't you? Or do you think it's all rigged? Because I'm at the theatre alot and there is certainly a vast array of talent out there.
Unfortunately, some of the creepy playwrights who come from the mid-West regionals clog up the system horribly. That's why I mentioned Tracy Letts. I doubt anybody wants his bod.
Obviously, my original post was waaaaay too facile and glib.
One thing that my brother has told me about his world is that arts funding is very corrupt. When government money goes 'to the arts' it means that next to nothing ever trickles down to the 'starving artists'. It gets eaten up by administrative layers in the various funding organizations and intermediaries. No surprise there.
P.S.: I can assure you that right now on my home page at Facebook there are artists and arts funders at the Kennedy Center (yes, I’ve actually been produced there) excoriating this. Not everyone in show business is a freak.
Can I shoot him and call it art? stupid son of a bitch should be rotting in jail.
Nothing odd about this guy.
I guess I was generalizing too much. There are talented people. I realized your post was meant to glib. Maybe the dog shooter reminded me too much of the pretentious fakes and sociopaths who populate the “art world”.
and PETA and ASPCA have what to say???
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