‘Simon Starling displays artefacts or photographs of objects which, he has already decided, are museum exhibits. In fact, they are relics of another sort: a lost set of teeth, for example. That they were lost in the grounds of the Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld, during an exhibition of the work of Lothar Baumgarten may or may not bestow value on it. Can something be valuable by extension? Or is the set of values by which we judge art being set against closer, more human matters?’ ‘

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‘Simon Starling displays artefacts or photographs of objects which, he has already decided, are museum exhibits. In fact, they are relics of another sort: a lost set of teeth, for example. That they were lost in the grounds of the Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld, during an exhibition of the work of Lothar Baumgarten may or may not bestow value on it. Can something be valuable by extension? Or is the set of values by which we judge art being set against closer, more human matters?’ ‘

Full title: "Chrome plated brass cast of a leg of a museum display case, circa 1910, (500cm x 120cm x 152cm) from Prehistory No. 2, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh"

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Full title: "Chrome plated brass cast of a leg of a museum display case, circa 1910, (500cm x 120cm x 152cm) from Prehistory No. 2, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh"