one pic monday. Rob Pruitt

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Cocaine Buffet, 1998
Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise New York / Rome

Through an article for artnews.com, art critic and editor ANDREW RUSSETH comes back to a series of illegal artworks such as the Cocaine Buffet (1998) (image above) by ROB PRUITT. A radical and minimal action conceived for a group show in the late nineties, which consisted of a 16-foot (almost 5 meters) line of cocaine stretching the exhibition space.

 

Make sure to read the whole article via http://www.artnews.com/2016/05/17/when-felonies-become-form-the-secret-history-of-artists-who-use-lawbreaking-as-their-medium/



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