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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