Comments on: Art for E. Stadium, Argo Cascades Moves Ahead

By: TeacherPatti

TeacherPatti — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:33:58 +0000

The Argo Cascades are lovely as is…my dog loves the place :) (except when an off-leash dog tried to mate with him, but that stuff happens). It’s a lovely addition to the Argo Pond area.

I love those Whirlydoodles…I thought I was seeing things at first though because when they first appeared, it seemed like no one else had seen them but me and I started to question my sanity. This is neither the first time nor the last time this will happen :)

By: John Floyd

John Floyd — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:58:13 +0000

And BTW, while commercial advertisements may well turn into public art when they are hung on banners from publicly-funded poles, I am sufficiently out of my Lewis Carroll groove to not see it that way.

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
“If this were only cleared away,”
They said, “it would be grand!”

By: John Floyd

John Floyd — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:36:18 +0000

The whole point of canoeing is the natural setting. Let the area be feral (!). This is the wrong place for “art”.

I’m also not getting why a rain garden needs to be supplemented with “art”. Isn’t the garden itself the point?

Publicly-funded “art” seems to be a solution in search of a problem.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:52:21 +0000

The (grasping) fingers? The (beckoning) hand? The (your epithet here) stomach?

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:42:03 +0000

So if the purpose of the public art program was to show the “soul” of Ann Arbor, what does using it to buy poles for advertising banners say?

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:03:33 +0000

1,000 Whirlydoodles

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing…?

By: Steve Bean

Steve Bean — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:24:46 +0000

I still don’t understand the desire for national attention.

Are the river and its surrounding bluffs not beautiful enough that they need an art installation?

By: Krees

Krees — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:06:23 +0000

Right on, Jim. Long live the Short Bar!

By: Jim Rees

Jim Rees — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:45:28 +0000

I have a suggestion for the Argo “water themed” art project. Approach the owners of Szechuan West, which will soon be demolished, and see if they will sell the original Kale’s waterfall. For the amount of money involved, we could even save the entire lounge area with its red vinyl booths and shimmering waterfall paintings, and install it at the canoe livery.