Sometime during the last hour before close on Sunday at the , staff began telling the last-minute gawkers that there would be a surprise just before closed for good.
The send-off crew. (Photo: Ashley Dean, The Denver Post)
The two-man band that had been playing David Bowie songs went quiet and the sounds of a snare drum echoed through the rooms. People who remained found a man in Boy Scout uniform near the entryway, rapping out a marching rhythm, joined by another man, this one in a tufted marching band hat and holding a bowl of potatoes.
The send-off for the much-loved, extended exhibit of Mothersbaugh’s work was going to be properly weird.
Once enough a small group had gathered, the pair led the march out the museum doors, into the rain and down Delgany Street, coming to a halt on a bridge over Cherry Creek. There, someone read a thank-you note from Mothersbaugh to the MCA staff and the potatoes were distributed along with small potato guns. After a bit of confusion over how the guns worked (they were the kind that shoot small pellets of potato, not the whole tuber), the group fired three potato shots in the air on command.
It wasn’t nearly as dramatic as a 21-gun salute, but maybe we’ve devolved from that.
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