![]() Lenticular prints featuring both A$AP Rocky and the dummies, along with Basquiat-like pieces of him lined the space’s walls. Each group urged guests to put together the dummies and then photographed them with their phones. When we were finally allowed in the performance area, a number of strange occurrences began to happen: performers dressed in hazmat suits marked with Crash Dummy Symbols were in small groups with dismembered dummies, standing around a giant cube covered with a white piece of cloth. That spun into the storied auction house collaborating with the rapper on “Lab Rat.” ![]() There, a spokesperson for Sotheby’s gave me the lowdown on the starting point of the performance that evening: The collaboration between Sotheby’s and A$AP Rocky started with the production of a video starring the rapper and artist Ai Weiwei for its Fearless Now series. We were given a button with a Crash Dummy Symbol and then ushered up to the 6th floor, where we discovered a small crowd waiting in a gallery filled with Old Masters works that will be sold at the upcoming Old Masters evening sale in London. ![]() One doesn’t exactly think of performance art and A$AP Rocky as a predictable pairing, but we were intrigued, so we made the trip to the Upper East Side to the iconic auction house to check it out. ![]()
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