{"id":101206,"date":"2022-05-21T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/anna-delveys-art-show-i-have-seen-the-death-of-culture\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T20:36:00","slug":"anna-delveys-art-show-i-have-seen-the-death-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/anna-delveys-art-show-i-have-seen-the-death-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Delvey’s Art Show: I Have Seen the Death of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cWelcome to my partyyyyyy,\u201d a vaguely Eastern European-accented voice drones, as a crowd of reporters, influencers, and hangers-on whip out their phones to capture the magic. \u201cShut up! I\u2019m a masterpiece. I\u2019m a masterpiece. I am Annaaaaaaa. Am I gorgeous or what? And don\u2019t you worry. The wire money is coming. The wire money is coming, baby.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The voice on the loudspeaker is from an Anna Delvey impersonator, but a few minutes later, the real Anna speaks in a prerecorded message. \u201cYou\u2019ve heard so many voices already, but this is just the beginning of me telling my story, my narrative, from my perspective,\u201d she concludes, with whoops of approval from the crowd. Immediately, Kanye West\u2019s \u201cFlashing Lights\u201d blares over the loudspeaker as a bevy of swan-necked models in black BDSM masks parade down a narrow corridor carrying various crudely drawn sketches. There\u2019s an image of inmates swanning around in Hermes and Bottega Veneta on the stairs of a penitentiary, with the caption \u201cCorrections Collection\u201d; a paper doll showing a female figure\u2019s transformation from donning Sally Hershberger highlights and a Dries van Noten jacket to a prison-instituted sweatsuit and Amazon panties; and an image of a woman in thick, black-rimmed glasses confronting a harried desk clerk, with the bubble, \u201cThis is a club card. Run it on my card. Run it again!\u201d No one, except for the models, was wearing a mask.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dozens of photographers clamor to shoot the models holding the art, even though no one else in the room is paying much attention to it. All of the works are signed, in highly stylized, curlicue font, looking much fancier than the chicken-scratched, color-penciled images themselves, \u201cAnna Delvey.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The audience seems a little baffled by the display; or at least, the audience members who are paying attention to it in the first place, and not just checking how many people have viewed it on their Instagram stories. One attendee later refers to it as \u201clike a Kanye video when he\u2019s off his meds.\u201d \u201cI think she\u2019s making some sort of big statement,\u201d I overhear the woman behind me saying, but she doesn\u2019t really elaborate on what that statement might be. <\/span><\/p>\n Anna Delvey is a convicted criminal and scam artist who, in pretending to be a Bavarian heiress raising venture capital for an arts space, humiliated and ruined the lives of innumerable people. But in pretending to be an iconic New York City heiress, she has also, improbably, remade herself as an iconic New York City success story. In 2017, she was arrested after raising the alarm of numerous big banks and failing to pay her hotel bills. In 2020, she was convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends and various businesses in New York. Having been released early on good behavior following a jail sentence for multiple counts of grand larceny and theft of services, she is now currently at an ICE detainment center in Orange County, New York\u00a0 for overstaying her visa and is awaiting deportation to Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n \t