Dynasty Handbag's Titanic and the farce of history - Artforum International
AS I WRITE, the search continues for the Titan, the submersible vessel that went missing off the coast of Newfoundland on a high-ticket tourist dive to view the wreck of the RMS Titanic. Operated by deep-sea adventure company OceanGate Expeditions and carrying five passengers—OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, maritime researcher Paul-Henri Nargeolet, billionaire businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, and Dawood’s son Suleman—the Titan lost contact with the terrestrial world one hour and forty-five minutes into its journey on June 18; the craft’s oxygen supply is estimat...