Gao Fei sighed, scolding his girlfriend for being so stubborn: "You son of a bitch! The male police officer is called Sir, but Lin Qi is called Madam!"
"Hey! It's embarrassing, I'm embarrassed!" Jiang Feng covered his face with a pillow and smiled shyly.
Gao Fei lifted her up from the sofa, held her in his arms and kissed her.
"Shabao'er, it's about 3 o'clock in the afternoon now. Should we go out shopping for food, or should we play games at home?"
"It's a little early to eat now, let's play games first and then have a good meal in the evening! It's such a happy decision!"
Jiang Feng said happily.
The two entered the seventh chapter of "Port City Raiders", and the game scene was located inside a venue with quite an artistic style.
This is the "Fein Family Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall", a holy place for literati and artists in Marina City to gather.
In addition to stylish exhibitions of paintings and sculptures, the venue also hosts cabaret performances—not the kind you would find in a nightclub.
The actors who are qualified to appear on stage in art museums must all be well-known artists recognized by the upper class, and their qualifications are extremely high.
However, having said that, elegant modern artworks are often too abstract and difficult to be accepted by the public. The popularity of art museums is far less than that of popular theaters and nightclubs.
You can't make a living by being good at it. If an artist wants to survive, he cannot do without the support of noble people.
In the past, artists, including poets, painters, sculptors and composers, rarely considered the general public as their intended audience when creating.
Those who engage in art either come from aristocratic families, have time and are not short of money, and are simply "art for art's sake."
Or, although he was born in poverty and lived in straitened circumstances, he was supported by nobles and created specifically for a noble lord or the church. There would always be a dedication at the beginning of his work to thank the patron.
To put it harshly, these artists are equivalent to being supported by wealthy and tasteful princes and nobles.
However, when the time came to the 1920s, with the outbreak of the Magical Industrial Revolution and the acceleration of urbanization, the nouveau riche of capital and the urban middle class rose rapidly, while the feudal aristocrats of various countries were in rapid decline and became increasingly difficult.
Many well-established aristocratic families are in debt and have to auction off their fathers' collections of art to save money. Where can they find free money to support artists?
Artists lost their traditional patrons and had to change the style of their works, trying to adapt to the times and please the "vulgar bourgeoisie" they once despised from the bottom of their hearts.
Exhibition halls, as intermediaries between artists and patrons, are also in the same predicament.
Sticking to the previous style and refusing to exhibit popular works, the venue was deserted and no one visited, so it was difficult to maintain it.
However, if you put down your dignity and accept all popular works, you will lose your integrity and be despised by artists and critics, and your reputation will be ruined.
It is of course best to balance both, but unfortunately it is not easy.
The art museum, which has been run by the Fein family for three generations, has been able to keep up with the trends of the times because of the genius of Mr. Walter Fein, the third generation of the family, who has grasped the delicate balance between elegance and popularity.
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Mr. Fein inherited his family's artistic taste and also has considerable business talent. Since taking over the art museum, the various exhibitions held have always brought some fresh gimmicks, ignited public opinion, and become a hot topic in newspapers and social circles.
Bringing great popularity and ticket revenue to the exhibition.
For example, recently, Mr. Fein planned an exhibition with the theme of "wax figures".
This theme is not new.
No matter how lifelike the wax figures are, they are still dead objects after all, and they even look a bit scary. Not many viewers are interested in this kind of exhibition.
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Mr. Finn knows this very well.
However, he is confident that he can make this unpopular exhibition prosperous and become a fashionable topic in Binhai City.
In order to achieve the goal of a blockbuster, the flexible Mr. Fein broke the rigid process of the traditional wax figure exhibition and added some elements of suspense and puzzle solving.
He arranged the venue to look like a murder scene. The wax figure of the victim came to life, and the wounds on his body seemed to be bleeding. The men and women in the venue had different postures and expressions. Some were frightened, some were confused, and some were laughing...
All these wax figures that look like living people seem to be suspected of murder.
On the back of the ticket, Mr. Fein printed an advertisement stating that the theme of the exhibition was "The Wax Museum Murders."
Mr. Finn also advertised in newspapers, issuing a challenge to ladies and gentlemen in the city who claimed to be smart, thoughtful, and capable of detectives, inviting them to come to the exhibition hall to track down the murderer.
Counting from the time when the audience enters the museum, if they can find the real "murderer" among the sixty-five wax figures through logical reasoning within one hour, they will receive an exquisite gift - a ticket to the second floor.
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This idea doesn't sound very reasonable.
As long as one person finds the "murderer" and everyone else knows about it, what suspense is there?
Mr. Finn has even considered this issue.
In addition to the sixty-four real wax figures, Mr. Finn also specially hired an "actor" to pretend to be the murderer.
The actor can change his body and appearance at will, replacing him with any wax figure in the venue.
The audience's so-called inference and puzzle solving, in fact, the biggest difficulty is to find out among all the wax figures which one the actor is pretending to be. Either the actor is the "murderer", or the key clues to identify the murderer can be obtained from the actor's mouth.
It doesn't sound difficult to find a living person among a group of vivid wax figures.
By observing whether there are physiological activities such as breathing and heartbeat, or simply pricking the actor secretly with a needle, wouldn't it be possible to identify the actor?
It would be wrong to think so.
Things are not that simple.
The actors carefully selected by Mr. Finn are neither human beings nor wax figures, but beings in between.
That's right, this is a "wax golem" that he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to customize!
The wax golem has certain intelligence and is naturally good at "disguise". It can follow the owner's instructions and reshape its wax appearance at will.
When it is still, it looks and feels like an ordinary wax figure.
It is quite difficult to pick out a deliberately disguised wax demon among the sixty-five wax figures.
Looking for the "murderer" is only the first half of the entire exhibition.
If you want to watch the second half, you have to go to the small theater on the second floor and buy another ticket - unless you can find the "murderer" within an hour and get a free ticket to the small theater on the second floor.
The programs on the first floor have many gimmicks, mainly to attract the public.
When we went up to the second floor, our artistic style suddenly went up a notch!
