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I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find
smokers the most interesting people at the table.
~Michelle Pfeiffer
The Guy Debord Show: Episode 4

Dan Levenson Presents
The All-Smoking Art Opening – Sponsored by Altria



This special event will feature more than 100 smoking intellectuals and artistic types. Together we will peruse an exhibition of all-black artworks by Eric Doeringer, Les Joynes, Filip Noterdaeme, Gabriel Shuldiner, and Friese Undine. If you missed out on Paris in the 1920s, this is your big chance, and maybe your last chance, as the coming ice age of mediocrity, blandness and uniformity descends permanently on New York’s cultural landscape.

Visitors are encouraged to wear dark-colored clothing and chic eyewear. Extra credit for carrying a book of poetry, philosophy or modernist literature. Super extra credit if this book is written in a language other than English. Super double extra credit if you and a friend can discuss this book in that language. The event will be broadcast live over the internet.

Free cigarettes will be available for smokers, provided courtesy of Altria Group. Non-smokers are grudgingly welcome, but stay out of our way.

Wanted: Smoking intellectuals, bohemians and all-black artworks