Private view
Koidu
that it has something to do with art, and it is a place or an occasion
where a patron of the arts could be after nine p.m.
Thank you in advance,
Koidu
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Garry J. Vass
<ko...@dk.ee> writes
>Can anybody please explain what is a private view? The context shows
>
I know of two types of 'private view'. The first takes place at a
gallery, preferably in the evening, during the time that the gallery
would normally be closed; and people with invitations come and have a
look at a special exhibit.
The other type of 'private view' occurs when an important person is laid
out in state, and someone like the Queen comes to pay final respects.
Kind regards,
--
Garry J. Vass
Brian J Goggin
>Can anybody please explain what is a private view? The context shows
>that it has something to do with art, and it is a place or an occasion
>where a patron of the arts could be after nine p.m.
A showing of works of art to which only certain persons are invited:
friends of the artist (and other disreputable freeloaders), those
likely to be able to afford to buy one or more items of the work,
well-known liggers and so on. Ordinary plebs can come to the gallery
at other times, and won't be prevented from buying, but they get less
attention.
bjg
D. Spencer Hines
already been sold.
I bought one of the Windward Coast of O'ahu that way last month.
Nipped it right out from under one of the Kahala matronly gallery
workers who had her eye on it. You know the type, lots of gold
bracelets and pendants. She had gone off to get her husband to look
at it to see if he liked it. I stepped in and scarfed it right up.
It was quite pricey, but a fine painting. Had I not been invited to
the private viewing, I'd never have seen it or had a long chat with
the painter.
The proles came the following two nights and got the leftovers. You
know the type. The bottom posters.
--
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"You are a warrior, Clarice. The enemy is dead, the baby safe. You
are a warrior. The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the
middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver.
Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
Hannibal Lecter." _Hannibal_, Thomas Harris, Delacorte Press, [1999],
p. 32.
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Rowan Dingle
>Can anybody please explain what is a private view? The context shows
>that it has something to do with art, and it is a place or an occasion
>where a patron of the arts could be after nine p.m.
It's a party thrown (held) to open an art exhibition, often of new art,
often in a small gallery. Friends and wealthy acquaintances are invited.
Sweet white wine is served in paper cups. If you don't avoid eye contact
with the artist you might have to buy something.
--
Rowan Dingle
Stan Brown
>Can anybody please explain what is a private view? The context shows
>that it has something to do with art, and it is a place or an occasion
>where a patron of the arts could be after nine p.m.
Do you mean "private viewing"?
"There will be a private viewing at 9:00" means that whatever it is
(a painting, or a dead person laid out before a funeral) is normally
open to the general public, but at the stated time is open only by
invitation, usually to just one person or a few people.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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a1a51640
<b...@wordwrights.ie> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:18:08 -0800, Koidu <ko...@dk.ee> wrote:
>
>>Can anybody please explain what is a private view? The context shows
>>that it has something to do with art, and it is a place or an occasion
>>where a patron of the arts could be after nine p.m.
>
>A showing of works of art to which only certain persons are invited:
>friends of the artist (and other disreputable freeloaders), those
>likely to be able to afford to buy one or more items of the work,
>well-known liggers and so on. Ordinary plebs can come to the gallery
>at other times, and won't be prevented from buying, but they get less
>attention.
>
>bjg
>
Diggers? Sheep millionaires?
Brian J Goggin
>Diggers? Sheep millionaires?
Are there no liggers in foreign parts?
Liggers turn up at Events, drink the booze and scoff the nosh.
bjg
a1a51640
<b...@wordwrights.ie> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:49:12 GMT, a1a51640 @POP3.sprint.ca wrote:
>
>>Diggers? Sheep millionaires?
>
>Are there no liggers in foreign parts?
>
It is a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word I suppose, rooted. so to
speak. But Erse does strange things to language.
>Liggers turn up at Events, drink the booze and scoff the nosh.
>
>bjg
>
Those are chiggers. But not in Jamaica-by-the-Bronx.
Brian J Goggin
>On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:56:03 +0000, Brian J Goggin
><b...@wordwrights.ie> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:49:12 GMT, a1a51640 @POP3.sprint.ca wrote:
>>
>>>Diggers? Sheep millionaires?
>>
>>Are there no liggers in foreign parts?
>>
>It is a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word I suppose, rooted. so to
>speak. But Erse does strange things to language.
It's in Chambers: no Hiberno-English here.
>>Liggers turn up at Events, drink the booze and scoff the nosh.
>>
>>bjg
>>
>Those are chiggers. But not in Jamaica-by-the-Bronx.
Get under people's skin, they do.
bjg
Koidu
me! You have been very helpful.
Kind regards,