Friday, August 05, 2005
Everyone Loves a Fake Critic
Sony admitted this week (to the tune of $1.5M) that in advertising five movies it had cited a fake film critic whose reviews supposedly appeared in an obscure publication.
This would never happen in the art world, would it? Why the heck not!
This would never happen in the art world, would it? Why the heck not!
- For Mount St. Helens: Photographs by Frank Gohlke at MoMA, “An eruption of mind-blowing photography!” –Dr. M. A. Federmilch, Ph.D., Geophysical Journal International
- For The Impressionist Landscape from Corot to van Gogh: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, “A stunning collection of winning hands. Not a pair of deuces in the lot.” –Vinny DeStephino, Gambling Magazine
- For Robert Smithson at the Whitney, “The most novel use of saltpan soil in years!” –Dr. Jaime G. Bockenheimer, Ph.D., Soil Science Society of America Journal
- For Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 at the Worcester Art Museum, “Plague is never good. But a lot of these paintings are!” –Dr. Stephanie Soderhouse, M.D., Ph.D., The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- For Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing) at the Whitney, “Dude, this show trips so hard you better hold off toking until after you’ve seen it!” –Scooter Kicksome, High Times
- For Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition at the Guggenheim, “More beef than Smith & Wollensky! More cake than Veniero’s!” –Zagat Survey
