The Queens Museum of Art presented Those Who Are About To Die Salute You, a (misnamed, by the way - it should be 'We') mock naval battle last Thursday, August 13. From the Queens Museum website:
Those About to Die Salute You, a battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries, will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 6 pm in a flooded World’s Fair-era reflecting pool in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, just outside of the Queens Museum of Art. Various types of vessels have been designed and constructed by artist
provocateur Duke Riley and his collaborators: the galleons, some made of reeds
harvested in the park, will be used to stage a citywide battle of the art
museums in which representatives from the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn
Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and El Museo del Barrio will battle before a
toga-clad crowd of frenzied onlookers. The event is free and open to public.
Dress code: Toga. Live music by Hell-Bent Hooker. Beverages will be served. RAIN
OR SHINE.
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