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Astounding. I don’t care what you have to say about Elon Musk’s flaws; he’s the most inspirational human to have lived in the past fifty years. I am unabashedly a SpaceX fanboy.
Nelson Mandela? Barack Obama? Martin Luther King Jr? Neil Armstrong? Bill Gates? Stephen Hawking? Steve Jobs? Rosa Parks? Elon would be lucky to make the top ten.
This is an expensive, pointless stunt, and all you nerds have you're priorities screwed up if you think it's a good idea.
This puts Yusaku Maezawa up there in league with the de Medici's and Borgia's in terms of patron of the arts.
Perhaps in terms of absolute expenditures, but unlikely anything like it in terms of bang for the buck.
Arguably, we're still cruising on the de Medicis' and Borgias' investments in the arts.
Astounding. I don’t care what you have to say about Elon Musk’s flaws; he’s the most inspirational human to have lived in the past fifty years. I am unabashedly a SpaceX fanboy.
Nelson Mandela? Barack Obama? Martin Luther King Jr? Neil Armstrong? Bill Gates? Stephen Hawking? Steve Jobs? Rosa Parks? Elon would be lucky to make the top ten.
What a shame that such a unique opportunity is wasted on such a mediocre curator. This nouveau-rich collector could have sent a curator of renown in his place rather than making the project all about himself. Aside from the fact that he obviously lacks experience or any actual taste, it's widely considered unacceptable for any curator to highlight themselves in their work in this way. The exhibition is and should be…
Furthermore, there is plenty of evidence that singular profound experiences can drive the creation of art or change the nature of an artist's future work.
Your cynicism is not much different from those that complain that the immense resources spent by engineers at SpaceX could better go to helping the impoverished.
I don't think it makes any sense to hand over this idea to some ivory tower team that thinks they know better than the innovators and creators of the ideas themselves.
Honestly, this is beautiful. Let's fucking do it. No seriously...let's do it. We're humans - this is the kind of funny, beautiful, impossible stuff we can uniquely do. Capital allocation? Bleh, don't be so boring and uninspired!
Astounding. I don’t care what you have to say about Elon Musk’s flaws; he’s the most inspirational human to have lived in the past fifty years. I am unabashedly a SpaceX fanboy.
Nelson Mandela? Barack Obama? Martin Luther King Jr? Neil Armstrong? Bill Gates? Stephen Hawking? Steve Jobs? Rosa Parks? Elon would be lucky to make the top ten.
What SpaceX and Tesla are doing is absolutely breathtaking.
What a beautiful sentiment. This humanizes space travel. I really hope the team succeeds on this mission, even with delays.
As a kid, I always felt a sense of awe reading about space and space travel. Now I am in grad school and lost that feeling of awe along the way. The only times that feeling has come back were during the Rocketman livestream and now looking at this project.
I am looking forward to the day that we go back on the moon, maybe even build a base there (Kurzgesagt released a video today about a moon base[1], coincidence?).
Again, what a noble endeavor, a billionaire taking artists to the moon!
[0] http://scifiquotes.net/quotes/139_They-Should-Have-Sent-a-Po... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8
What a shame that such a unique opportunity is wasted on such a mediocre curator. This nouveau-rich collector could have sent a curator of renown in his place rather than making the project all about himself. Aside from the fact that he obviously lacks experience or any actual taste, it's widely considered unacceptable for any curator to highlight themselves in their work in this way. The exhibition is and should be…
> it's widely considered unacceptable for any curator to highlight themselves in their work in this way So then he's not a curator but a patron. There's entire wings of galleries dedicated to portraits of patrons of the arts. You make some good points but your framing of art as some kind of system with established rules, more than just heaving out your opinion on it just isn't reality.
Moreover, museums don't allow the donors to curate the exhibitions, and artists do not mention their patrons in their work.
Art is in fact a system with established rules, which reflect good sense, and this collector is very much operating within that framework, just tastelessly.