Duke Riley's Burlesque Spin on the Trappings of Museum Display and Folk Art

Louis Barry, Hyperallergic, July 27, 2022

“Remember to hit that like button and subscribe,” deadpans Duke Riley at the end of “Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing” (2019), “It really helps.” Projected in the entry room of his Brooklyn Museum exhibition DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, the short video — a parody of a YouTube fishing tutorial — depicts Riley aboard a boat using lures he made from discarded plastic tampon applicators...

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