This morning, the TWIST-Barry McGee wall on Houston Street was covered up by a tribute to SACE. SACE was the tag used by the artist Dash Snow, who died last year, while he was part of the IRAK crew (he also went by SACER). Street art experts we spoke to think that ADEK, who tagged the Domino Sugar Factory earlier this year, was behind the tribute. Graffiti photographer Martha Cooper calls it a "grand finale" to the TWIST piece, which replaced Shepard Fairey's work.
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Sace Tribute Goes Up On Houston Street
Last Days of Dash Snow
It's been over a week now since Dash Snow was confirmed dead from an overdose, and today the NY Times sheds some light on what exactly happened to the artist, who would have turned 28 on Monday, during his last hours.
Dash Snow Remembered By New York
It may be easy to judge someone like Dash Snow. His pedigree, his art, his drug abuse, his lifestyle. But when the artist joined the 27 Club and departed for the big "hamster nest" in the sky, he left behind many Polaroids, many tags, many works of art, and many grieving friends. Gavin McInnes, who you know from Vice, wrote a tribute to his friend and his relation to New York City.
The best part of living in New York is the feeling that you’re in the center of everything. This feeling is like heroin and soon you want more. Eventually, Brooklyn isn’t enough. Then, certain parts of Manhattan aren’t enough. You feel like you’re visiting your parents when you’re in Soho or you’re on a road trip when you’re in Chelsea. St. Marks is a mini mall and even the East Village feels like a pale imitation of the Lower East Side. You never felt like that when you were partying with Dash Snow. You felt like you were in the center of New York. He was the kind of thing people move to New York for.Snow's friend Carol Lee at Paper Magazine described him as a "young and talented artist, downtown fixture, bad boy, SACER, member of IRAK, etc.—but more than anything, he was a friend." Meanwhile, the NY Post wrongfully uses him as a posthumous posterboy for their rag, and the NY Times labels him an "East Village Artistic Rebel" in their obituary, pinpointing his art as being driven by "Sexuality, violence and life’s fragility... also an air of exuberant misbehavior." With all the sudden attention and fawning, Gawker believes this is the beginning of a "Basquiat-esque art world canonization" of the artist.
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