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Hunter S. Thompson Carved From a Phone Book, David Bowie Made With a Typewriter

May 9, 2014 By Daniel Maurer

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For Raoul Duke fans, the highlight of Select Fair, which opens on West 18th Street today at noon, has to be this Hunter S. Thompson bust, carved by Alex Queral from three glued-together phonebooks.
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Last Chance to Worship Dead Celebrities at This Freaky Pop-Up Reliquary

January 30, 2014 By Jenna Marotta

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The celebrity cemetery on Broome Street has no headstones, graves or flowers. Through Sunday, the Whitebox Art Center will display 51 portraits from British painter Robert Priseman’s “FAME” series, depicting stars who “died prematurely from suicide or as a result of a self-destructive lifestyle.”
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