Heinz Kerry unveils $4 million gift to Warhol

[globalvillage]

From this morning's Pittsburgh Post Gazette, local section page 1 headline:

Heinz Kerry unveils $4 million gift to Warhol -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Pittsburgh philanthropist who supported the founding of the Andy Warhol Museum, surprised its director, staff and donors last night with a gift of $4 million to the museum's endowment.

http://www.post-gazette.com/

The full article goes on to state that she also gave 4MM to the Carnegie dinosaur exhibit in 2003.

[Hugin]

1. Good for her!

Now this is the kind of gift giving I like to read about!

:)

[Deja Q]

2. Good. Now the starving masses have a place to go and marvel over the art.

Give them free catsup too.

[patricia92243]

3. Boy! Do I ever agree!

[Hugin]

5. Umm... Aren't there jobs there.

Curators, guards, janitors... etc. (not to mention the artists
and paleontologists themselves.)

Got a problem with people working?

[Deja Q]

10. Oh goody! Lots of low paying crap jobs. I've got a problem with

people working for slave wages. Don't you? Or are you suggesting we should all be grateful for any miniscule crumbs thrown at us, while the CEO and one or two other managerial folks reap gigantic profits off our backs?

Artists' work usually becomes recognized AFTER the artist snuffs it too...

Also, I've noted the cost of artwork is either pathetically low or so ridiculously high that nobody will want it. Particularly stinging is that many artists whose work I've viewed hang around in middle class venues. Where the wealthy won't be frolicking around.

Nice try with your response, but no dice.

[globalvillage]

19. How much do they make?

Seriously. I know they have full benefits, health, dental, etc. I'm not sure of their pay scale, though. What's the starting wage?

[Demit]

4. Oh yes, art is such a frivolous thing

Further down in the article:

"...In 2001, the Andy Warhol Museum opened an exhibition titled "Without Sanctuary," a series of horrific photographs that showed lynchings of blacks in the United States.

In the endowment's prepared statement, Heinz Kerry praised Tom Sokolowski, the Warhol's director, for bringing the exhibition to Pittsburgh.

"What made that exhibit so successful was all the work Tom Sokolowski and the museum staff put into community outreach and education," Heinz Kerry said. ..."

[Deja Q]

11. You said "frivolous", not me.

I am insulted by your petty and puerile attempt to put words in my mouth.

And, yes, that picture of dogs playing poker does a hell of a lot more to teach calculus or anything educational than a guy in a pinstripe suit lecturing from a 500 page book. :sarcasm: :eyes:

Art isn't education. It's communication and entertainment. It'd be fun to make a living out of it, but that doesn't even begin to pay the bills.

[Demit]

26. at least you spelled puerile right.

[globalvillage]

6. If this were Teresa's only charitable contribution

i could see your point, but that is not the reality here. Teresa's charitable contributions are very broad based.
Besides, don't you think that the Warhol exhibit of the abuses at Abu Ghraib should be supported?
If the rich don't support the arts, who will? Maybe Teresa should just hold on to all her money. Sheesh.

[Deja Q]

12. Sigh. I didn't say that either. I will say this and I hope I'm read:

I say there are more laudable causes for the money to go to.

If our society was art-based then I'd be for it. But it's greed based. And millions lack health insurance and basic needs. Surely 4 million could go to that instead, which was rather what I was implying?

Oh, "Teresa should just hold on to all her money." sounds like a typical repuke meme.

Another nice try that cuts no ice.

[democracyindanger]

25. "Teresa should just hold on to all her money"

is as valid as "Now the starving masses have a place to go marvel at art."

[blm]

29. Teresa will donate hundreds of millions to healthcare and poverty centers

here and in other parts of the world....mostly in Africa, a country where she has targeted programs for decades. She also donates tens of millions to environmental research and education centers.

I am shocked that so little of her actual work is known on a board like DU.

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[ProudToBeLiberal]

36. I'm not a newbie and I agree with fedupinBushcountry

Art is one of the cornerstone of civilization. Poetry, music, Art, and literature is like a food for the mind. You're talking about physical needs but you're ignoring the mental and emotional needs of the people.

You said you know longer care. How easily you give up. I hope you don't continue this "giving up" when you fight for liberal and progressive causes.

As John Kerry said, "Hope is on the Way." May you find happiness someday.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

37. also your assumption is invalid

You assumed he is a newbie because he has only 10 post counts. If you look at his profile you see that he joined way before you. Perhaps he is a lurker? So perhaps who should apologize when you called him a "newbie."

[globalvillage]

18. Welcome.

Nothing wrong with being a newbie. Sometimes old = experience, sometimes it just means stale.
:hi:

[ProudToBeLiberal]

38. he's not a newbie

He joined before july 6th 2003, I bet he's a lurker who just doesn't post. I used to lurk too.

[kerrygoddess]

35. NICE ROVIAN TALKING POINTS!

:eyes:

[Placebo]

40. Karl Rove? Is that you?

:eyes: :thumbsdown:

[mondo joe]

42. There are many good causes, including human services and arts.

And the environment.

And civil rights.

I don't see why one such donation from Teresa Heinz deserves a dismissive response.

[d_b]

43. wtf?

[JI7]

8. good for her

people need to learn about these things .

[globalvillage]

9. As one of the millions of middle class Americans

who can afford groceries, but not my own art museum, I would just like to add:
Teresa-
:yourock:

[kittykitty]

14. Heinz Kerry has dropped the Kerry from her name-now Teresa Heinz

....Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

"I just checked and she no longer uses her (entire) last name; only during the (presidential) campaign did she use Kerry," campaign spokeswoman Tamara Rodriguez Reichberg said

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/whispers/s_300508.html

also http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/9247

plus other sites.

[globalvillage]

17. I saw that back in Feb, but

what I've seen recently has been Heinz Kerry, at least in the Post-Gazette. I wouldn't touch the Trib except to find out what the other side has to say.
I guess it's just Heinz.
:shrug:
Honestly, I don't care what they call her, I think she's awesome.

[fedupinBushcountry]

20. Funny

I just received a letter from her last week with the heading TERESA HEINZ KERRY. So as usual these articles are pure speculation, and who cares anyway. Momma T is fine with me.

[sandnsea]

24. Me too

We have to add that to the why Kerry lost list. Teresa flip-flopped on her name. :eyes:

Come join us in the Kerry forum, where we don't have to put up with this stuff!!

[sandnsea]

23. This is important to you?

Why? :shrug:

[Mass]

27. Well, she sure has been using Kerry a lot for somebody recently

for somebody who does not.

She has always said she would be called Heinz Kerry only when it comes to politics.

But frankly, except for the RWers, who cares about that.

[blm]

30. Your propaganda from the Moonie Times is a LIE. Why keep pushing it?

The Scaife paper that you use to back up the Moonie Times is just reinforcement of the LIE.

[Adelante]

39. So?

It's her name, her right, her business.

Anyway, I love that she's supporting the Warhol museum. In fact, she supports about everything culural in Pittsburgh. Teresa's the bomb.

[saltpoint]

15. The arts feed our spirits. It's a good thing when the wealthy --

-- feed the museums, the concert halls, and so on.

Thank you, Teresa.

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Good, I love that museum

One of my favorite things when I lived in the 'burgh

[ClarkUSA]

21. If it weren't for Teresa Heinz' generosity & vision...

Pittsburgh would be a dump.

[globalvillage]

22. She sure has helped.

There's no place like home.

[wisteria]

28. What a wonderful gesture.

This is a great lady. I read this in the paper this morning. What a shame she isn't our First Lady. She would bring something that is sorely missing in recent years, back to the White House-culture and the arts.

[politicasista]

31. I agree. I like Momma T.

Hey, I just rhymed. :bounce:

[Siyahamba]

32. This is just one of her many acts of generousity.

We sorely need someone standing up for culture and the arts like Teresa, since the current administration sees it as a wasteful expenditure.

[kerrygoddess]

33. This is a good example to use start changing the conversation...

I posted a thread about this too with some points about changing the conversation about the "culture of life" - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3458958

Thanks to Teresa and others dedicated to the arts, museums like the Andy Warhol Museum can still thrive in today’s bleak economy that is more focused on corporate profit than education and culture. We hear a lot these days about the “culture of life,” however that buzz phrase seems to be somewhat skewed, for surely the arts are one the great gifts of the true “culture of life.”

We need to talk about this “culture of life” in the terms of what is missing and what is being left behind, in this effort to bill it as simply a morality issue.

A true “culture of life” embraces our society in all its diversity. It honors the many paths to enlightenment celebrated in by our nation’s separation of church and state. It enhances education and enrichment, and encourages the advancement of the arts and sciences for the betterment of all and the improvement our society, which is the life’s blood of our very existence and the soul of our purpose on this planet. - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=691

[Bridget Burke]

34. Good for her.

Sounds like a pretty interesting museum, with programs including outreach to local young artists. Seeing art in books, on the web, or in traveling exhibitions is no substitute for having a good local museum. The best way to learn about art is by looking at it repeatedly...

www.warhol.org/default.asp

Definitely on my list should I ever find myself in Pittsburgh...

Coming up: A John Waters retrospective.

[Placebo]

41. One of my favourite women, helping my favourite artist.

Could it get any better?

We love ya Teresa! Thank you for supporting the arts in these troubled times! :yourock: