S.M.S. No.6
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. 6 includes work by Richard Artschwager (Cover; n.b., coffee stains were part of the piece as conceived by Artschwager), Ed Bereal (Self Portrait), Diter Rot (Chocolate Bar), Betty Dodson (Friends), Ronaldo Ferri (Neon Construction), John Giorno (Chinese Fortune Game), Toby Mussman (Ten Xerox Sheets), Adrian Nutbeam (Twenty Down), Claes Oldenburg (Unattended Lunches), Mischa Petrow (Junior Historical Theater), Jean Reavey (Adora), Paul Steiner (Johns at Art Galleries), and Bernar Venet (Astrophysics). This was the final issue of S.M.S., and includes a note from the publisher announcing its completion.