Three emails from art world types asking me if I know the details of JASON RHOADES dying.
Quite a shocker as he was only 41. No official confirmation. He died yesterday, August 1, here in L.A. … it is being termed “heart failure”… which seems more euphemism than coroner’s report… He was a little chunky, but not obese, I saw him drink lightly at art functions, but he didn’t have the reputation for being a lush… If only the good die young, I guess it settles the debate as to whether his sprawling installations were any good…
update: numerous people I have contacted coroborate that the idea of an otherwise-healthy looking 41-year old man dropping dead is not applicable for the partier that Rhoades had become. Consensus is that lifestyle decisions regarding substance ingestion played the main role in his death.
update 2: By the looks of it, Jason Rhoades was getting pretty hefty in the double-chin department of late…
update 3: the # of photos of Rhoades being posted on the net all feature two common themes: expanding double chin, glass of the hard sauce in hand. Any experts out there know how well that shit mixes with Ecstasy…
update 4: Heart disease is no laughing matter. When a fat heavy drinker dies in his sleep at age 41, dont just assume it had anything to do with lines of coke – go get checked up so your cardiologist can buy more art.