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[UPDATE BELOW] A not totally unsurprising rumor is going around that downtown artist Dash Snow has died of a heroin overdose. Snow is the maternal grandson of Robert Thurman (and nephew of actress Uma Thurman), and his lifestyle was well-documented in a sprawling New York magazine piece two years ago. That lifestyle at one point included making what he called a Hamster’s Nest with friends, where they would "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 feel like hamsters."
Snow's work was exhibited at galleries like The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney, Deitch Projects and Saatchi Gallery (here are some selected works from the latter).
Gawker says they heard the news of the 27-year-old's death this morning from multiple sources. One of Dash's best friends, artist Earsnot/Kunle Irak, posted on his Twitter earlier: "YOU HAD TO INJECT HEROIN RIGHT? YOU COULDN'T JUST... :( DUDE! I FUCKING HATE YOU. YOU ARE THE WORST GUY EVER! FUCK YOU! FUCKING TURD! Dude." And another artist friend, CLAW, has been posting about the sad news as well. There has been no official comment released yet to confirm the rumor, but it's certainly spreading all over the place.
UPDATE: Blogue has now posted a visual tribute to the artist, confirming his death. And The NY Times reports that he died at the "Lafayette House, a hotel in Lower Manhattan. His death was confirmed by his grandmother, the art collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil, who said that Mr. Snow had died of a drug overdose." She noted "that he had been in rehabilitation in March and had been off drugs until very recently."
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Can we get confirmation on this? I mean, I wouldn't want Fox News or MSNBC to break into their regularly scheduled programing without being 100% certain that this guy is indeed dead.
heroin: the artsy way to go.
Any polaroids of the body?
uhm, who?
"A kid who's family includes a brother named Maxwell who dated an Olsen twin and a mother who has charged the highest rent ever for a Hamptons home ($750,000 a season.)"
Will someone spread semen and glitter all over the body and take pics?
Sorry you lost me at "Earsnot/Kunle Irak".
bet his real name is Dave or Steve or something. Idiot.
That is a fitting tribute from Earsnot Iraq.
Dash Snow is Gothamist's new Chrissie Brodigan.
BOO HOO! Another druggie dead..I am so sad let's have a vigil for him, and talk about how great he was..
in all fairness if he was actually a great artist, id forget about the druggie thing as most great artists have their flaws, often major ones.
but to give some doofus the place as some bohemian who lived some kind of hard grimey life is laughable since he obviously had the means to risk, or i should say "THROW", his life away like that.
"great artist" might be a bit of an overstatement.
whoops, you said "if."
i can't read.
i would say Dash Snow's high water mark is "cool", yet normally hovers around "toolsy"
"If you think the War On Drugs is a good thing, I want you to go home and take all your records, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn 'em. Because all those artists who made all that great music that enhanced your lives throughout the years...REEEEAAAL fuckin' high on drugs." —Bill Hicks
I didn't say that, it is just that this person WAS not a great artist. So I personally really do not care that another mediocre artist, at best OD from the Heroin.
Have A Nice Day!
Twitter is blogging for the mentally impaired.
+1
Blogging in general is pretty goddamn retarded.
As tragic as this is, now the market is open for an up and coming artist like myself to make millions in the garbage and semen art market. The bids on my inaugural piece, 'RedTube Waste Assemblage Hamster's Nest #1' will start at $1 million.
Do you ever post anything, or even form thoughts, that don't have their origins on Gawker? Why not just post links and save yourself the trouble of even writing a post?
They are a news aggregator, see?
god, i totally agree.
Good call, AnnaZed.
This is such a tragic tragedy. When will the memorial be held at Citifield?
Who was Dash Snow? What did he actually do for a living? Is there going to be a lottery for tickets? Wrist bands? Does ebay know about this?
He was murdered by Michael Jackson.
Epitaph: Worst. Artist. Ever.
No, it was LaToya in vengeance for Michael's murder.
Performance art?
A not totally unsurprising rumor is that when you need to click through four links to learn more about the subject of the article the post itself sucks ass.
Yes.
Sorry, typo. I could have sworn I typed "YAWN."
I love the anger-grief twitter quote. It gives the guy a perfect opportunity to rage and then crumple into heaving sobs while pounding on a near by dresser like he's in his own little indie film.
Silver liiiiining!
@hattiemchipster: HOW COULD YOU DO THAT DUDE?!? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO AND SHOOT IT?! WHY DIDNT YOU JUST SPRINKLE IT INTO YOUR ASS LIKE I SHOWED YOU?!? I'VE BEEN YOUR MOST LOYAL HANGER ON FOR ALL THESE YEARS, NOW WHAT DO I DO? ASK MY DAD TO GET ME A JOB?!?!
I hope this isn't a publicity stunt. I consider myself a tolerant person, but I dont want to hear about him again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyqmt8G5BiI
I think I just lost my respect for the Thurmans. I read that article when it came out. Waste.
That guy looks like the lead singer from the 'Spin Doctors'.
You turd! You couldn't just snort heroin!
you could tell that he had problems from the new york article. if he wasn't an addict, he was living like one.
rip
Aunt Uma did that in Pulp Fiction...didn't work out very well for her.
When every reader has to google the name just to see who this guy was and still don't care, it's officially not news.
heh
A trustafarian who OD's!?!? say it ain't so.
good riddance to bad rubbish.
was he the white rapper who sang 'Informer'?
Hah.
I highly recommend anyone who has not checked out his online 'collection of works' (linked above) to drop everything and behold the beauty. Basically, if this guy wasn't related to Christophe de Menil, he'd be working at a Hot Topic in Paramus.
If I were him i would have killed myself a long time ago.
Whew, for a minute there I thought that was Tommie Sunshine.
white people with money. and no talent.
wtf was saatchi thinking?
You were impressed by that site too, huh?
who cares. it's the best thing that could've happened to his career
Teen Wolf?
WELL CAN IT BE THAT THE WROLD HAS LOST THE BEST SPERM ARTIST SENSE PEREZ HILTON?
You were funnier a week ago.
WELL 'A.K.' I AM SORRY TO HEAR THAT BECASUE I HAVE ALL WAYS ENJOYED YOU'RE SINCERE THOUGHTS FROM THE LAST WEEK TO THIS WEEK, AND I THINK YOU LOOK GREAT IN YOU'RE HOODY WITH YOU'RE BILLIE IDLE SNEAR, DO'NT EVER CHANGE
http://www.tinyvices.com/dash_snow_16
I've always found genuine beauty in his Polaroids. his dirty, dirty Polaroids.
what do people expect when they do drugs ... to live happily ever after like Snow White
when i die, no matter what i do between now and then, and no matter how badly some of you may want to, please please PLEASE don't publicly call me a "turd". please.
Alright, but can we call you that until then? Turd.
honky.
thanks to this post, I know another person who had everything yet has nothing.
the rich are different.
Whatever...I gotta go bang some noise into my veins...
He could have just snorted Dexatrim to get that emaciated dilettante look.
Can't believe the vicious comments...as usual by people who didn't know him. There was a lot of misinformation in the New York piece.
Oh god, I'm fucking high...
I know his 'art' and I think it sucks.
So did he trade coke for a polaroid camera to "make his cameras" or even worse. . .did he use a digital camera and fake polaroids with badly exposed shots on the computer?
Some have actually made cameras out of tin foil and cardboard and made contact prints. . .
Whatever, not impressed with his work, if you want to call it that
eewww!
I won't miss his "art".
The cult to "ugly" trashy art has gone longer than it should.
Awww this makes me really sad. Another rich white "artistic" guy dies from a drug overdose... how ironic?