The installation would be open for thirty-six hours, and attendees could preview Smith's unreleased music, fondle props from his videos, purchase his friends' wares ... and talk to the man himself.
Smith had devised the idea for the museum after watching a 2009 documentary called "We Live in Public," about a dot-com maverick who invited more than a hundred scenesters to cohabit with him in an underground terrarium in Manhattan.
The Dare Museum is live,” Smith's manager, Bryce Segall, announced, then added, more quietly, ``If it isn't the Dare Memorial.”
At the beginning, everybody's having a really good time. Like, woo-hoo! A wild party atmosphere usually gives way ... to chaos as the novelty wears off.
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