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What IS the “Real Thing”?

Posted on Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at 8:33 am

Photo: GV

Photo: GV

A trip to Florence is expensive.  The lines are long.  People will be in your way. 

So maybe a good alternative to all of this is a weekend special to that magical place in the desert where whatever happens there stays there.

Ceasar’s Palace is easy to find, and easy to get into. The walkalators propel you toward the slots, and you pass ancient statuary on the way.  And then inside, in that never-never land with no windows, no clocks, and no obvious way out (and no revers walkalators) – and here he is, full size!  At no additional cost, and with little interference, DAVID awaits!

Well, after all, Playboy is now (I’m told) in 3D.

So, what IS the “Real Thing”?

David in Vegas: Photo by GV

David in Vegas: Photo by GV

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  • About Gary Vikan

    Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum since 1994, has been with the Baltimore institution for more than 20 years. A native of Minnesota, Gary received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976 before working as Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.

    An internationally known medieval art scholar, Gary has curated many significant exhibitions at the Walters, and has published and lectured on the early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin, neuroscience and aesthetics, and Elvis Presley. His most recent book, Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, will be published in 2010 by Dumbarton Oaks; he is currently working on a book-length study titled Pilgrimage to Graceland.

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