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Look, but don't think.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Look, but don't think.(Arts & Literature)(Dump the lofty blather, and Matthew Ritchie's courthouse art isn't bad)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

Consider this: New York art star Matthew Ritchie's big new work that's been installed at the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse is by far the most expensive single piece of public art ever to appear in Eugene.

With a $776,237 price tag - not including cost overruns still being negotiated - Ritchie's sprawling sculpture and light box installation has cost you and me more than half as much as all the public art ever bought by the city of Eugene combined. Add in smaller works by three other artists and the total bill for the courthouse art comes in a shade over $1 million.

The good news is, maybe now that we have spent a million bucks for art in one giant swipe of the national credit card, we can really start taking ourselves seriously as an art town.

But a nagging question remains: What, exactly, did we get for all that money? The answer is surprisingly complicated.

Ritchie, who was born in London but lives in New York, arrived in Eugene in 2003 with top art world credentials and no connection to Oregon. He was...

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