S.M.S. No.1
William Copley and Dimitri Petrov

11h x 7w 

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S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop) was subscription-based exhibition in a box conceived, edited, and produced by William Copley and Dimitri Petrov in 1968. The project derived its formal conceit from antecedents like Marcel Duchamp’s La Boîte-en-valise, George Maciunas’s FluxKit, and Phyllis Johnson’s Aspen, but was unique in its juxtaposition of the well-known with the unknown, and in its short-lived intensity: six editions, each featuring about a dozen artist multiples, were distributed throughout 1968 before Copley and Petrov called it quits. 

S.M.S. No. 1 includes the work of Su Braden (Project for a Bridge), James Lee Byars (Black Dress), Christo (Store Front), Walter de Maria (Chicago Project), Richard Hamilton (A Postal Card), Kasper König (My Country Tis of Thee), Julien Levy (Pharmaceuticals), Sol Mednick (Hottentot Apron), Irving Petlin (cover), Nancy Reitkopf (Luggage Labels), and La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela (Two Propositions in Black).