Dash Snow Dead
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The Web site Gawker reported this morning that 27-year-old artist and downtown "it" boy Dash Snow died last night of a heroin overdose, and the report has been confirmed in the New York Times by his grandmother, the collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil.
Snow is known for his graffiti, photography, and artworks created using his own semen. He was an early artist of the now-defunct Rivington Arms gallery on New York's Lower East Side and is currently represented by Peres Projects of Berlin and Los Angeles.In addition to being part of the near-art-world-royalty de Menil clan, Snow, who was born in 1981, is also the grandson of Robert Thurman, Christophe's ex-husband and actress Uma's father (which makes Uma his aunt).
- brains0
Well, the dude lived the life pretty fucking hard. Tragic for his family, but he did so many drugs, in such high quantities. Anyone read the vice article about making the "hampster cage"? I'm surprised he didn't die then.
- Enrico760
sad for the little daughter too
- PonyBoy0
that's a Dash Original btw... NSFW... but it's (art).
- detritus0
I'm anything but anti-drugs, but if someone dies from drugs, I'm not going to bother mourning their passing.
I merely hope he enjoyed it.
- airey0
ahh an artist on heroin. viva la cliché. shame he died though, especially for the family.
- detritus0
I read this this morning, which I thought was infinitely more poignant.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/81…
(I've no idea who this guy is, either).
- robotron3k0
never heard of him, but that "downtown" NY art scene hasn't been happening for many years.
- visionary0
how much more did his work go up in value?
- visionary0
omg his work sucked. polaroids of hipsters fucking. boring and not shocking.
- i agree 100%sea_sea
- What? The photos or the hipsters? Or both?TheBlueOne
- bothvisionary
- horton0
value on this POS probably just doubled.
Dreams Die Hard
Phillips de Pury & Company May 15, 2009
6,875 USD
- horton0
DASH SNOW – A BAG OF BLOW AND SOME LOVE TO GO
http://killingdenouement.wordpre…DASH SNOW, MORSE CODE FOR PARANOID ROCKSTAR?
http://killingdenouement.wordpre…
- brains0
- He's known as the Paris Hilton of the Art World.robotron3k
- TheBlueOne0
Some days you ride the pony. Other days the pony rides you. Those aren't good days.
- for you or the pony.airey
- The pony always has good days. That's why people want to rideTheBlueOne
- jacklalane0
I always thought this kid was some kind of trustafarian and wondered if nepotism got him in the press. I mean his poloroids were kinda cool in a low brow sort of way. But the other stuff was pretty wack.
- visionary0
"Dash Snow died last night of a heroin overdose, and the report has been confirmed in the New York Times by his grandmother, the collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil."
yeah he got lucky