tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post5757087239191987914..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Turner Contemporary Margate Revisited, some more photographs of inside the gallery, some criticisms and problems.Michael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-89077585351877813732011-04-30T08:06:39.039+01:002011-04-30T08:06:39.039+01:00These days, it is customary to seek the opinions o...These days, it is customary to seek the opinions of your customers as a way of determining whether you have been doing as good job. <br /><br />Now that the gallery is open the argument that we shouldn't be negative about it until we see what it looks like no longer holds. We can now see what £50 million of our money has bought us and we are entitled to say what we think. <br /><br />Since the Turner Centre (the costs of building and running it) was foisted on all of us we ought, now, to be given some means of giving our feedback.<br /><br />Most of the verbal feedback I have heard is unremittingly negative. If people don't think it is worth the money, they have the option of removing the Councillor who voted to build it next Thursday. Perhaps we need a list of how every existing Councillor voted? Perhaps it's simpler than that? Was there a Councillor who voted against?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-57650776320673766922011-04-27T18:39:31.663+01:002011-04-27T18:39:31.663+01:00You're right Michael, I should count my blessi...You're right Michael, I should count my blessings; the folly could have ended up in Ramsgate and that would have caused me problems of a coronary nature.<br /><br />As for my reservation(s), I can't find a way of expressing them without fear of being Siouxed. And the Native American tattoos aren't Apache on the local variety when it comes to mental stimulation.Ramsgate Residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-5223905416715046892011-04-26T14:23:48.605+01:002011-04-26T14:23:48.605+01:00RR Don’t corona out on us, you could still be payi...RR Don’t corona out on us, you could still be paying for it with it sitting in another part of Kent.<br /><br />I take the view that as we have got it I’ll make the best of it.<br /><br />I will look out for your tattoos, I guess you are lucky to have a reservation, I had sort of assumed you Native Americans had mystical art but hadn’t realised it was distant from the ordinary members of the tribe.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-58690912941436419342011-04-26T08:48:01.910+01:002011-04-26T08:48:01.910+01:00Thanks for the pictures Michael, you've saved ...Thanks for the pictures Michael, you've saved me the cost of petrol to get to Margate. Unfortunately you have increased my blood pressure by making me realise just what I have been unwillingly forced into contributing to.<br /><br />Art has always been something mystical and distant to many "ordinary" people, but now they can come face to face with "it", I'm not so sure they will embrace it. Personally I find my thoughts are stimulated more by the fashionable tattoos etched into our local youth in an effort to express individuality. Surely this must be art, or does it need a multi million pound gallery to achieve that status? <br /><br />Good luck to Margate and the Turner Folly, but I have my reservation!Ramsgate Residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-1793805197844826032011-04-25T22:12:05.904+01:002011-04-25T22:12:05.904+01:00Don I have been sticking up as many pictures as I ...Don I have been sticking up as many pictures as I can, I have asked several people recently if I should edit out the ones that aren’t any good, but it seems to be pretty much a unanimous no to that one.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-60274689609907429542011-04-25T19:09:54.378+01:002011-04-25T19:09:54.378+01:00I have yet to go back but I definitely will become...I have yet to go back but I definitely will become a visitor. Shame about the floor because it looked great. Love the pictures.Don Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099505939055955603noreply@blogger.com