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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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On Artsbeat, Randy Kennedy recently recounted a Kafkaesque experience receiving his press credentials at the Venice Biennale:
“The words ‘grande confusione’ are often heard. They were running through my head as a woman told me I was in the wrong place and that I should walk to the Arsenale, the other site for the event, several [...]
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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
The Neon Homeland
Last weekend, I was in Michigan not seeing any art. My plan had been to delve into the Art in America from May still waiting to be broken into, but I absentmindedly forgot almost all of my reading. I came across Bringing Down the House in the paperback section of a Sea-Tac bookstore and [...]
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Tags: art in america, baudrillard, dave hickey, false appearance, las vegas, utopia
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