NYC Museums Battle On and Offline

The QMA gave the Brooklyn Museum a new flag on their panorama

It looks like the Queens Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum are battling it out... on Twitter! It's impossible to say who is winning this ~~publicity stunt~~ war, but the Queens folk had a pretty good burn, posting the above pic and saying they found the Brooklyn Museum on their panorama.

Of course, the real battle will go down this Thursday, when artist Duke Riley gives the city's art dignitaries "baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls" in order to fight it out in "a flooded World's Fair-era-reflecting pool in Flushing Meadows Corona Park." The artist has constructed vessels and a fitting atmosphere in which to stage a gladiator-style battle between the museums (the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and El Museo del Barrrio are all involved). Yep, even Manhattan is getting their hands dirty; Rebecca Goyette, of the Museum of Modern Art, has been assigned to play Caligula’s wife, and told the WSJ that she won't mind getting splattered with fake blood. In fact, she told them: “I want to fight.”

Spectators: you are encouraged to wear togas!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on August 10, 2009 6:00 PM

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jennesy

yay Queens! finally, some Queens love!

pigeon

Go Queens!

ozik

Duke Riley is the master of the half-assed publicity stunt. He's also good at retroactively making his projects much more fantastic than they are in person. I'm impressed that he has managed to get legitimate art institutions involved, he must be a pretty charming guy.

emilydickinson

"baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls" in order to fight it out in "a flooded World's Fair-era-reflecting pool in Flushing Meadows Corona Park."

This is a fantastic publicity stunt. Very well done. I hope none of the curators has their monocle broken by a stray baguette.

suepart

the queens museum has the panorama. it wins.

the brooklyn museum has the egyptian stuff. it comes in second (since the met is better and it is in manhattan).

the bronx museum and el museo, you can keep those.

the end.

Jen Chung

This is awesome.

Kojak

Aint El Museo del Barrrio in Manhattan?

In any case, the rankings go like this as far as I'm concerned:

Brooklyn Museum

Queens Museum of Art

Bronx Museum

El Museo