Description: Well, if you can imagine a 25 ft high kneeling woman, made of cinder blocks and painted bright pink, you can imagine whay this museum is like. It's like nothing else I've ever seen. The painted lady, a monument to Nevada's local residents, celebrates the working girls of the desert. Outside the county limits of Vegas and Reno, prostitution is not legal, but this is the only state in the country where it is not 'illegal.' This sculpture looks like the largest lego blocks you have ever seen (oh, and she's a natural blonde)
The other works here by the late Belgium artist, Charles Albert Szukalski (1945-2000) are better known and more widely photographed. The Last Supper is awe inspiring. Sheets of plaster that look like ghostly forms in a three dimensional version of DaVinci's Last Supper painting are larger than life.
Other sculputures include a ghost rider and his rust bicycle, a wooden woman of the desert suspended on a post, a desert nomad, and a prospector and his penguin.
This is one museum you will never forget. The impact of this work stays with you forever.
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