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Snow Flake

July 27, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Detail from "Untitled Polaroid"The New York Times takes another shot at chronicling the bathos of Dash Snow’s life and death. After providing a detailed account of the man’s last hours, we treated to another rehash of his career :

It was a gruesome end — a pathetic end — for an artist and provocateur who, at least according to his birthright, never should have been there to begin with. Dash Snow was, in no particular order, a jokester, a jailbird, a thief, a freak, a successful art-brut savage, a doting father, a connoisseur of various cocaine bathrooms, a retired writer of graffiti and the latest incarnation of that timeless New York species, the downtown Baudelaire. […] But he was also East Side royalty, the discontented scion of the famous de Menil family, whose contributions to the American art world are vast. He met a junkie’s end but did so in a $325-a-night hotel room with an antique marble hearth. His death was not unlike his abbreviated life: a violent, jumbled collage of high and low.

Terrible End for an Enfant Terrible (New York Times)

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