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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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The Best Museum in America
I love Las Vegas, particularly as someone who loves art theory. I don’t gamble but would go there every weekend to indulge in the fascination, if I could. One of the best places in Vegas is the Neon Museum. My essay in The Stranger this week explains why.
Image from the Neon Boneyard.
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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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Article: “Kiddie Orientalism” by Brian T. Edwards in The Believer (June 08 )
Book: The Book on Vegas by Lisa Eisner, Roman Alonso, Noel Daniel, Dave Hickey (intro)
Blog: “I will see where it takes me from here: A conversation with Ed Ruscha” by Arcy Douglass in PORT
The desert has routinely been linked to particular notions of [...]
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Tags: desert, destruction, ed ruscha, exhibitions, exoticism, las vegas, star wars
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
Strangers in Our Own Worlds
I’m dying to see Doug Aitken’s Migration: 365 Hotel Rooms, which Tyler Green recently blogged about in relation to the Carnegie International 2008 and Roberta Smith cites as one of the few pieces in Life on Mars that succeeds in exploring the exhibition’s concept as well as the catalog’s essays manages to do. The [...]
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Tags: carnegie international 2008, contemporary art, disney world, exhibition, hotels, las vegas, life on mars, motel, museums, neon, pop culture
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