Even before Dash Snow's death from a heroin overdose in 2009, at the age of twenty-seven, it was difficult to disentangle his work from the myth of his life.
Given the whirlwind of geographic and conceptual changes in contemporary-art landscape, we couldn’t help doing some serious navel-gazing (especially in light of the upcoming “Inventing Downtown…
Is there a photographer alive today whose work is more totemic than Ryan McGinley’s? The perennially young photographer—he’s only 38, and looks about ten years younger than that—has spent…
In this installment of Alexandra Peers' weekly bulletin, she considers the impact of Dash Snow's memorial at Deitch Projects, and introduces three young artists with shows opening this weekend nationa…
As a visual artist, playwright and director, among many other titles, Robert Wilson is best known for his recalculations of some of art's dustier forms, among them opera, theater and, most recently…
Artist Dash Snow died last evening at a downtown hotel as the result of a drug overdose, according to a report issued earlier today by media blog Gawker and confirmed in the New York Times by the…