The Seattle Art Museum‘s blog, SOAP, is off to a promising start with three entries by new director Derrick Cartright. After receiving a certain amount of (gentle) ridicule for its (what the?) name, (here and here), Cartright countered with a description of the process of choosing it and a few image associations, chief among them:
Considering the alternatives, floating is a good thing.
Will Dove Soap sue?
I’m not attempting to throw water on Sam’s bubble parade but a few years ago I did a couple of showings with a local group that went by the name of SOAP(Seattle Outsider artist project). As a perpetual outsider, their name intrigued me and I was happy to show with them, first at one of the hangars in Magnusen Park and then a year later at the Youngstown building on Deldridge. Nice group of young folks and I wonder if they are still active?