Comments on: Tut’s other Secret

By: conrad

conrad — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:20:16 +0000

Great. Now we have a Ticketmaster equivalent for art. Just what we needed.

By: Ataki

Ataki — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:34:56 +0000

Well, this explains why I got a notice for this show in the mail. I’m a season ticket holder for the Los Angeles Kings, which is also owned by Anschultz Entertainment Group. For a moment, I was tricked into believing that some organization out there actually believed I had any level of culture or refinement, but, alas, they were just trying to make a quick buck.

While they probably won’t get my money for Tut this time around, and they *definitely* won’t get my money for Celine Dion any time around, as long as AEG owns the Kings (and assuming there is a hockey season), they will *always* get *some* of my money.

Go, Kings, go!

By: ChuckEye

ChuckEye — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:31:49 +0000

I believe I read that the Metropolitan Museum in New York passed on the opportunity to host the new exhibit on its tour because they refused to charge their patrons such a high ticket price.

By: chris franklin

chris franklin — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:26:31 +0000

Saw the King Tut Exhibit during the Carter years in D.C.; think it was about 1978 when I was Seven. I could have sworn it was in the National Gallery of Art, but now I’m reading that it was the American Museum of Natural History (which is kind of my fave DC museum). So much for siding with LACMA…

Strange how when you’re thinking of King Tut in the 1970s, all these images of “Earth Wind and Fire”, Carter’s peace talks, Steve Martin Skits, bad 70′s cars like the Ford Maverick, and wine and cheese parties at the Audubon Society come to mind. Guess this must be due to my folks friends at the time.

Can’t remember much about the exhibit other than I was pissed that I couldn’t play or keep any of it. Even at that age, it engendered a kind of a “Tree in the Garden of Eden-thing” where you really wanted to touch the forbidden fruit.