Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore

I’m not sure how you spent your Saturday night but I spent part of mine in a hotel room with a bunch of strangers looking at a naked man sprawled out on his bed like T.S. Eliot’s “patient etherized upon a table.”

A room at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. was the site of “Showcase,”...