Not only is Iwan Ries still in business, they are housed in a building that has just been restored to its former glory. I speak of Louis Sullivan's Jeweler's Building, not to be confused with the latter day Jewelers Building at 35 E Wacker which has plenty of its own stories to tell.
It's one of Louis Sullivan's earlier buildings and not up to the glory of, well let's just call it the Carson's building like we did of yore, not knowing any better, or the bank in Owatonna or the skyscraper in Buffalo. This is the building that turned the eye of a young Richard Nickel famed architectural photographer and hoarder of Sullivan architectural relics as a heedless city tore down one after another, and met his death in the ruins of the Stock Exchange as they were tearing it down.
The first two stories of the building, long derelict are now shining and bright, though strangely there has been no hullabaloo about it. Maybe they are still planning on doing some work on upper stories which still looks kind of shabby before any razzle-dazzle opening.
Glad you dropped in Old Dog, you are always a breath of fresh air in the cramped, sometimes petty, ranting between Beagles and myself. I need new stuff to inspire me, lest I go back to my old standby politics, which ok, I do enjoy, but I see where others wouldn't.
As for the first quote let me say this about that. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. That comes of course, from Richard Milhous Nixon, who clearly didn't pay it any heed.
The second one I rather agree with. "Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first." -Schopenhauer. I never read about an art show before I go there and I never read the caption next to the painting until I have examined it myself. I never read a review of a movie before I watch it, not so much so as not to be surprised by the action, but so that I don't hear the reviewers opinion of it.
It's kind of like that wave particle duality. Before I read the review the movie is in its wave mode, fuzzy and uncertain of position. But once I have read the opinion then it is flattened into its particle mode, smaller and harder, and not very interesting. It has the footprints of some other guy all over it, and I can't see it clearly with my own eye. Some people, especially hotshot critics, who make their living giving hotshot opinions, think there is a right and wrong opinion on art stuff, but that is just crazy Man crazy.
I'll get to genres in music in my next post.
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