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more about #dashsnow more comments → miss_msry: If I had a trust fund based on the Schlumberger fortune, I'd take better care of myself. more » Carol Gardens: Keep trying, Hamilton. You keep posting the same basic riff over and over, hoping that if you repeat it enough we will all agree with you that the guy... more » gawkimo: "Shooting heroin is the pinnacle of what is hardcore. " Finally, I found somebody who deserves to be kidnapped by Al-Qaeda to have his head sawed off... more » A Message To Rudy: Is shooting heroin really "living life fully"? Sounds more like somebody saying, "Fuck it." more » Lizawithazee: "WE rebel against a culture that worships the Jonas Brothers or Will Smith or Amerikkka or Money - but as long as we worship being hardcore, we're goi... more » rednrowdy: Was he an authentic artist with a tortured soul, or a selfish jerk with incredibly wealthy patronage who left his daughter fatherless? you can't for... more » CaptainFantastic: 'nilla please. more » Randall Tex Cobb: I don't want to judge the person or his art, but I am struck by how he was a product of the incestuous art world. His grandmother is probably the mo... more » Dr. Nick: this post should have been titled "Dead Junkie Still Dead" more » maevemealone: A life that ends at 27 is half a life, not a full one. more » SpyMagician: Here’s my personal take on being a man: Women seem to understand things change but the spirit of who you are doesn’t change. Women accept change ... more » City_Dater: Yet another reason to value a working class background -- behaving like a self-serving tool is kind of difficult when one has to pay the rent and was ... more » DaeSu: "Dash Snow—whether you liked his art or not—lived life fully, which should be appreciated, though not emulated in its specifics." Please define, i... more » robotwaste: From a technical standpoint, his work (that I've seen) is shit. It's lazy... provocative, but lazy. I'd say he's more of a performance artist than on... more » FormerEnglishMajor: Dash Snow—whether you liked his art or not—lived life fully Call me crazy, but choosing to be a present father seems more about living life fully... more » -
#controversies
Dash Snow's Diverging Legacies
Downtown artist Dash Snow died of a heroin overdose last week. The formation of his legacy is well underway. Was he an authentic artist with a tortured soul, or a selfish jerk who left his daughter fatherless? More » -
#artists
Dash Snow's Basquiat-ization
Dash Snow is already being branded an "icon." The downtown sperm-and-whatever-else artist died Monday night of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. And you can already spot the outlines of a Basquiat-esque art world canonization starting to form.
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#retrospectives
The Art of Dash Snow
Dash Snow, who died last night at the age of 27, took Polaroids, wrote graffiti, made collages and installations, and jacked off on newspapers (and was aware of how that was perceived). A dozen of his artworks, below. More » -
#obits
Dash Snow, Downtown Artist, Said to Be Dead of Overdose
Multiple sources tell us that Dash Snow—photographer, semen artist, graffiti writer, and embodiment of the downtown NYC scene—has apparently died of a heroin overdose, two years shy of his 30th birthday. More » -
