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Wu-Tang Clan Album ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ Will Be Played in Tasmania


The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania’s capital, will host from June 15 to June 24 a series of private listening events where visitors will be able to “experience” a selection of the 31 tracks from the group’s seventh studio album. “You hear talk about once-in-a-lifetime opportunities,” the museum wrote on the exhibit page. “This is probably one of them.”

Free tickets, “if you are lucky enough to secure” them, the museum said, go on sale on Thursday.

The listening sessions will be part of a larger exhibit called “Namedropping,” which will last until April next year and will examine celebrity, status and culture. Other names attached to the exhibit include Porsche, Madonna, Henry Kissinger, Air Jordan, McDonald’s and Henry VIII. The Wu-Tang album will only be available for listening for those 10 days.

“Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances,” Jarrod Rawlins, the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, said in a statement to The Guardian. “‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ is more than just an album, so when I was thinking about status, and what a transcendent name drop could be, I knew I had to get it into this exhibition.”

Mona, as the museum is known, opened in 2012, much to the chagrin of locals and the delight of tourists and curators. The $200 million venture was the brainchild of David Walsh, a wealthy local gambler and mathematician.

Mona seemed like a perfect fit for an NFT collective looking to “support RZA’s vision” for the album, the collective, called PleasrDAO, said in a statement to The Guardian.

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