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Sam Hyde killed art

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May 05, 2023
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Sam Hyde’s creation of the ‘Candyman’ persona, and his demand to fight Hasan Piker, is the greatest work of performance art in decades. 

It reveals the next great artistic frontier - indeed, perhaps, the only remaining artistic frontier: action art. 

Contemporary art’s connection to reality has been severed by a century of over-intellectualization. This…

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