Start from Zero

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Agathe Snow: All Access World, for the Deutsche Guggenheim

"If you create a place where everyone could be the best at what they make, then it is a perfect world." Malthus would grumble, but it's a succinct and useful idea for a small group of people working to establish something interesting.

Mad Dash

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A poster by Dash Snow from The Hole NYC's Postermat show, which features artwork by Wes Lang, Andrew Kuo, Aurel Schmidt, Kembra Pfahler, Dorothy Iannone, Futura, Cass Bird, Hanna Liden, Jack Pierson, Jesse Edwards.... the list goes on seemingly forever.

Click here to see more and to order prints (while they last) for only $75 each.

But This Got Made In The Day, It Was Bright

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Brendan Fowler, aka BARR, in a short film by Dash Snow and Jade Berreau for Purple.

Brendan Fowler had a good show at Rivington Arms last year which I briefly mentioned (it's fun to look back at those old posts...), but never elaborated on. On which I never elaborated. Take your pick, U.S. Americans, such as.

Here's probably the best known and my favorite BARR song, "The Song Is The Single," from Kill Rock Stars:



Purple Fashion no.12 is on newstands now, scoop it up and save it forever. More on BARR here.

Time Passages

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Olivier Zahm says the next issue of Purple Fashion magazine will feature a fold out poster of a Dash Snow collage.

Also, in case you missed it, there was a really interesting full-page piece on Dash in last Sunday's New York Times.

Benjamin Godsill, a curatorial associate at the New Museum, said Mr. Snow’s work “captures this period bracketed by the fall of the World Trade Center and the fall of the financial system.”

I would agree with that, and I guess it might have something to do with my interest in Dash Snow, since those were roughly the years we were in New York. Who knows. Anyway, it's a good article – the rest is here.

You Are Downtown

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At Purple Diary, Glenn O'Brien on Dash Snow.

Dash was a beautiful person and a genuine artist. A lot of people didn’t get the genuine part because to them he was a gossip star, all image. But he was the real thing, and sometimes his real was so in your face that people thought it must have been an act. It was an act, of course, but it was a real act. When you live in a world that’s inside a television there are no other options. But Dash and some of his friends were re-inventing what it is to be an artist, because that’s something every generation has to do. They had gotten the lay of the land and were responding accordingly.

Read the whole thing here.

Escaping Everything

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The New York Times and others are reporting that artist Dash Snow has died of a drug overdose. There has been and will be a lot of bad things said about Dash Snow. He was a friend of friends, but I never actually met him and don't have much of an opinion about him on a personal level. He was mostly known for his polaroids, the photographic evidence of a way of living that in itself could have been some kind of performance piece – but I most identify with and continue to be inspired by his collages and collage-like installations, which to some may seem shallow or purely driven by aesthetics, but which to me display a fascinating singular viewpoint and hint at a spacious inner life. Here's a small selection from the great shows he had at Rivington Arms several years back.

Rest in peace, Dash Snow...we hardly knew yeh.

All artwork courtesy Rivington Arms.