Art Society of Kingston Part 2 -- Kingston, NY

I am not the only one to be confused by the two doors in the hallway at the Art Society of Kingston.  One has a sign with the male/female symbols on them.  Okay, one bathroom.  That would be the restroom reviewed in a previous post.  Imagine my surprise when, while cruising down the hall to the main gallery, I see someone come out of the following doorway, and it's a bathroom!  Confusion ensued as another person tries to figure out which room is the official restroom.  The one with no sign looks nice, but the one with the sign, well, has a sign.  They opted for the sign, which left me free to try the 'new' one.

If you recall, I was less than impresssed with the other restroom in ASK, so it was with little enthusiasm but some hope that I entered this other, lesser known bathroom.

Here we are:

At first glance, we have improvement.  Striped wall?  Okay.  I'll give that to them.  Pretty mirror.

Okay.  Nice bench with some extra supplies.  The wall could be better.  Why do I expect some sort of art here?  But look out.  Things are about to fall apart.

I'm not going to ask how one ends up with deep gouges all around the switchplate of a bathroom.  I'm not going to say that they should hire someone to fix it.  I'm not even going to say that it doesn't cost that much to get some spackle and patch that baby up by hand.  Heck, maybe that would tone down the intense golden yellow they have going on on that one wall.  My mind went immediately to "How can we make this look artistic?"  But no.  Not even that.  I wonder if I would get into trouble if I arted it up with sharpies.

Oh, the blank wall.  The blank, dingy wall.  I believe I've just seen how they can double the space they give to artists to do their thing.  They have not one bathroom with walls crying for art, but two!  I really see an art event for these bathrooms to liven things up and help us have a more immersive art experience while enjoying the rest of the space.

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