00:00What makes an item valuable? Who decides its meaning?
00:06These are the questions posed by the Museum of Old and New Art's latest exhibition, Namedropping.
00:11This exhibition delves into how human beings create status and Namedropping is one of those.
00:18Layer on layer of why human beings imbue things with specialness is one of the big themes of the show.
00:26The show will be Mona's largest exhibition since 2016.
00:30It will feature hundreds of artworks from across the world,
00:33from Shakespeare's first collected folio of plays, a vest made up of scarves which belonged to Margaret Thatcher,
00:39to David Bowie's handwritten lyrics to Starman.
00:42Being able to sort of stand there seeing the hand of Bowie and this sort of wonderful little A4 piece of paper with some his scratchings on it,
00:51I think it just makes some of these famous songs a little bit more humble and real.
00:58It also includes American hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
01:03The album was recorded in secret over six years and pressed onto a two CD copy, the only one in the world.
01:10It was sold off at auction to digital art collective Pleaser, who has loaned it to Mona for the exhibition.
01:16It's a very important piece of pop culture and it's an incredible work of art.
01:21Only a handful of listeners will be able to check out this album during listening events over the next 10 days.
01:27But unless you are one of the lucky few to grab a ticket, you're going to have to jump to the back of the 5,000 person wait list.
01:33The exhibition will run until April next year.
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