What Is the Statue Outside Scotch 80 Steakhouse at the Palms?

What is that statue outside the new steakhouse at Palms really supposed to be? Looks like Mickey Mouse and Dumbo had a baby.

Apt description—as you can see from the photo below.

It’s actually a sculpture by KAWS, the street name of the Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly. Titled "Small Lie," it stands outside Scotch 80, the Palms' new steakhouse.

Donnelly is a 44-year-old painter, sculptor, illustrator, and toy, clothing, shoe, and perfume-bottle designer. He’s best known for his sizable sculptures, in fiberglass, aluminum, wood, and bronze, of figurative characters, some of his own creation, others modeled after cartoon icons, such as Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, the Smurfs, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the Michelin Man.

“I found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people's lives — the impact it could have, compared to regular politics," he explains.

By the way, the Palms is full of street, pop, and blue-chip artworks, to the extent that the design magazine Surface wrote, “The New Palms Casino-Resort might be Las Vegas's best art museum.”

The displayed art, on loan from the collections of Station Casinos owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, include works from Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, along with contemporary commissions from street artists, such as Jason Revoke, Crash, KAWS, Timothy Curtis, and Eric Haze.

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O2bnVegas Jul-14-2018

ugly

That thing is just gross. Sorry.

Dave in Seattle. Jul-14-2018

Sculpture"

  That thing is just too weird!
I wouldn't want that in my house.

Fumb Duck Jul-14-2018

Still Unanswered

You described the sculptor and give the title but haven't told us what it's supposed to be. I would guess Monster Mouse!

Dave Jul-14-2018

Answer?

What’s it supposed to be?

I think you’re really going to have to contact the artist to find out. I wouldn’t blame the LVA or Palms staff for not having that answer.

But at least the answer above does contain the title of the piece. “Small lie”, which, admittedly, still doesn’t answer your question.

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