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nymag.com - 7/16/2009

Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow -- New York Magazine

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T he artist Dash Snow rammed a screwdriver into his buzzer the other day. He has no phone. He doesn t use e-mail. So now, if you want to speak to him, you have to go by his apartment on Bowery and yell up. Lorax-like, he won t come to the window to let you see that he sees you: He has a ...

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guardian.co.uk - 7/21/2009

Why can't art be allowed to shock? | Sam Leith | Culture | The Guardian

— guardian.co.uk — Dash Snow with Nico Dios and Ry Fyan Shock tactics ... Artist Dash Snow (centre) with Nico... Dios and Ry Fyan in New York. Photograph: Hikari Yokoyama/WireImage.com (more) Why can't art be allowed to shock? | Sam Leith ...

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nymag.com - 7/17/2009

Dash Snow Seemed Happy and Healthy in Weeks Leading Up to Death, Say Shocked Friends -- Vulture ...

— nymag.com — News of 27-year-old artist Dash Snow's death by a drug overdose spread with viral speed through the... tight-knit New York art world this morning. Despite Snow's reputation for hard partying — a 2007 New York Magazine cover story by Ariel Levy described ... (more) Dash Snow Seemed Happy and Healthy in Weeks Leading Up ...

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guardian.co.uk - 7/16/2009

Dash Snow: An art icon for our times? | Art and design

— guardian.co.uk — Dash Snow, artist, New York Sex and drugs as fine art ... Dash Snow. Photograph: Brian Ach/WireImage... (more) Dash Snow: An art icon for our times? | Art and design

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Silliman's Blog — Dash Snow 1981 – 2009 ...

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HIPSTER HAMSTER KING
Moreintelligentlife.com — ... Snow’s legacy is perhaps best epitomised by a now-notorious passage in a 2007 New York magazine profile: “[Charles] Saatchi got them a fancy hotel room on Piccadilly. They had to flee it in the middle of the night with their suitcases before it was discovered that they’d created one of their Hamster’s Nests… To make a Hamster’s Nest, Snow and [sculptor Dan] Colen shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs—mushrooms, coke, ecstasy—until they ...