My frustration comes from the aggressive staff inside. They make it nearly impossible for anyone to enjoy the art. I was almost kicked out for disturbing one of the art pieces — a “brilliant” display of evenly-placed quarters on the floor (a section of the building that is ALWAYS open to foot traffic). First of all, wtf? Is that art? Anyway…

As for sustainable, if MoMA were indeed interested in saving the environment (or, at least promoting the idea with a bunch of affected, impressionable party-goers), it would examine its usage of plastic beer cups, wristbands, and the like. What would they do? How would they change it? Beats me, but if I was in charge of putting together a million-dollar making party/exhibition series each summer, you bet it would be my job to figure that out.

Besides, these are creative people we’re talking about, right?

My point is, MoMA is a money-maker. The museum (specifically PS-1) is NOT above doing things strictly for business. That’s what it’s all about in the world right now, MAKING MONEY. Short term gain, with the least possible liability. Sad but true. The Museum of Modern Art is not exempt from the hypocrisy that festers everywhere else.

If anyone should be ashamed, it should be us — the patrons of such events — because we go right along with it. I’m seriously thinking of not going back to WarmUp. Again, sad but true. I’m just not impressed at what it’s become.

The electronic music scene (along with the art scene long before it) has become infested with every type of materialistic, opportunistic, lets-be-a-hipster-for-the-summer-because-mommy-and-daddy-can-afford-it bourgeois bloodsuckers who jump from scene to scene, destroying the authenticity and boring the rest of us with their trite fashions and sickly attitudes. They are the embodiment of mass culture, and the kings and queens of FAD. Horkeimer and Adorno were the first to comment on “mass culture,” I believe (1950s?), and they did it well. You would be more empowered to read them.

For all we know, MoMA and PS-1 are now being run by those same vampires. Thanks again for the input, Lorien — and thanks for reading!

All of this inside, yet outside we have Warmup workers placing wristbands on people and throwing the sticker backings from them on the sidewalk when garbage cans are placed right next to them. This has happened each and every week this summer and it is disgraceful that such a blatant disregard for the planet we live on is exhibited outside of an environmentally friendly exhibit inside.

PS1 and Warmup should be ashamed of the workers they hire there and if I were the curator of the museum it would not be tolerated.

Edward C. Patterson

For instance, Lewisham writes, “There’s no context. Is one of the groups just a single voice going against a majority flow of opinion and scientific evidence?”

Lewisham has a point, however I would say that “majority opinion” and “scientific evidence” rarely agree where church and state have mixed.

Russell Fine
CEO, Opposing Views Inc.