Drugs Inspire Art Once Again

There is an art gallery in Manhattan‘s East Village called Giant Robot, but the latest exhibition there is very small (also: no robots).  The concept, cooked up by the curators, is pretty intelligent: let’s just get all our artist friends to make a little something and – bam – exhibition done, early weekend.  ”Little” is the operative word: each of the 300 pieces had to fit in a 3×3 inch dime bag, which, as you probably know, is a the type of baggie drugs come in.  3×3 inches is definitely the Hefty industrial-sized bag of dime bags.

Drugs have always gotten all the credit for art; finally, empty drug containters get their due in “Dime Bag 3“.  Pics of the best pieces, including Don’t Box Me In, A Room Without a View, and Young Michael Jackson in Lego, after the J.  

I think it would have been funny (and thought-provoking!) if one artist just sent back the bag full of heroin.  Names are made on such stunts in the art world today, for real.  Artwork that gets you arrested = bonus points.  And it’s like political, because of the War on Drugs and stuff.  So there’s that.

Source: NY Mag.