Posts Tagged ‘authenticity’
When I saw the largest rhinestone in the world at the Liberace Museum, I was surprised at my own disappointment. It sparkled as much as one would expect as it rotated on a black motorized base, but the impact of physically seeing this object was strikingly minimal.
World’s Largest Rhinestone, the Liberace Museum, Las Vegas; image [...]
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Michael Jackson’s entire life was published in seven auction catalogs, five of which are available for free public viewing on the internet. The objects up for bidding are organized into simple disciplines: garden statuary, outdoor furniture, decorative arts, antiques, paintings, amusements, arcade games, “Disneyana”, career memorabilia. Individual lots offer a surprising range of objects: framed [...]
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Tags: air guitar, auction, auction catalog, authenticity, curation, curiosity, dave hickey, display, lawrence weschler, liberace, liberace museum, michael jackson, mr. wilson's cabinet of wonder, nan goldin, objects, popular culture, rhinestones, wonder, wunderkammern
Fake Honesty, Honest Fakery
This morning on NPR, Daniel Schorr discussed the “fakery” of the fireworks and lipsynching of the Beijing Games, bringing to mind Dave Hickey’s examination of the authenticity through Las Vegas’s Liberace Museum, “A Rhinestone as Big as The Ritz“:
“[Friends who visit Las Vegas] prefer the page of the landscape to the text of the neon. They [...]
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Tags: ancient art, art history, authenticity, beijing olympics, caesars palace, casinos, dave hickey, elvis, fakery, footprint fireworks, las vegas, NPR, replica
While having my first (late) encounter with Alloy of Love and Heaven is Being a Memory to Others at the Frye last week, I found myself reading artist Dario Robleto’s labels in partial disbelief, and I thought to myself, “Josiah McElheny has taught me well.” McElheny’s An Historical Anecdote About Fashion was the first [...]
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Tags: authenticity, conceptual art, frye, henry, history, postmodern, seattle museums
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