{"id":684,"date":"2009-01-15T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=684"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:50:50","slug":"kansas-city-the-shuttlecocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/kansas-city-the-shuttlecocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City: The Shuttlecocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/13\/arts\/13vanbruggen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports that Coosje van Bruggen, the wife portion of the husband-and-wife sculpture team who designed them, died of breast cancer at age 66 (hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090208174908\/http:\/\/blogs.pitch.com\/plog\/2009\/01\/a_cold_day_for_shuttlecocks_ar.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Pitch<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n<p>Okay, I\u2019ll admit I didn\u2019t like them at first, but they\u2019ve grown on me. But! Don\u2019t think the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">construction trailer<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/kansas-city-nelson-atkins-bloch-addition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloch Addition<\/a> will grow on me in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(OH HO!!!! What\u2019s this? Now 24 hours after I wrote the above post and slotted it for publication):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyskansascity.com\/2009\/01\/kansas-city-art-going-broke-as-well.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tony<\/a> reports that the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><em>Star<\/em> reports<\/span> [dead link] that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nelson-Atkins<\/a> is laying off 20-25 people because their endowment income is down (well, shit, everybody\u2019s investments are down\u2014wanna look at our 401(k) stats? I thought not).<\/p>\n<p>No, really. It\u2019s not that the endowment is down. For Pete\u2019s sake, the thing got built during the effing Depression (well, like everything else in Kansas City). Your problem is your light bill, which you knew back in October, if not before. So gallery CEO Marc Wilson says to the <em>Star<\/em>, he says,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>\u201cThese figures are impacted by museum attendance,\u201d Wilson said. <strong>\u201cThe public is not responding to the expanded museum the way past indicators suggest.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, ya think?<\/p>\n<p>SOLUTION! Tear it down. Then you could create jobs and your attendance would go back up again. After all, the people who love and adore the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">construction trailer<\/span> Bloch Addition <strong><em>don\u2019t actually live here<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and donate the materials to <a href=\"https:\/\/habitatkc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Habitat for Humanity<\/a>. I love those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that Coosje van Bruggen, the wife portion of the husband-and-wife sculpture team who designed them, died of breast cancer at age 66 (hat tip: Pitch). Okay, I\u2019ll admit I didn\u2019t like them at first, but they\u2019ve grown on me. But! Don\u2019t think the construction trailer Bloch Addition will grow on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17319,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/17319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}