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1998

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Year of the racist murder of James Byrd Jr. that inspired Christian Marclay's Guitar Drag artwork.

Mentions (4)
"It's summer 1998 I'm standing in the backyard of a suburban house party watching my girlfriend and her friends laugh and joke and make fun of people."
It's summer 1998 · u/Critical_Work_5725 · ↑22 · 2023-07-31
"It's an essay about how absurd and messed up the Porn award thing in Vegas is."
Read "Big Red Son" by David Foster Wallace tonight (Written in 1998) · u/False_Fennel_1126 · ↑21 · 2024-03-08
"They could have named it Twister, but that movie came out the year before."
You didn't see shit coming · u/Budget-Ad6545 · ↑20 · 2023-12-03
"The work refers more precisely to a racist murder committed in 1998 not far from the film location - James Byrd Jr., an African American, was dragged by a truck for several kilometres."
Guitar Drag, 2000 (Excerpt) | Christian Marclay · u/asiwasmovingahead_ · ↑20 · 2025-08-07
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