S.M.S. #5 (Deluxe Edition)

The Art Institute’s complete set is one of 100 copies of the deluxe version, in which nearly every contribution is signed by its creator. The issues feature pieces by well-known artists like Marcel Duchamp, Ray Johnson, On Kawara, Yoko Ono, Roy Lichtenstein, and Lil Picard, as well as a multitude of unusual, interactive objects including audio recordings, a booklet about bathrooms in art galleries, a folded hat, luggage stickers, a phenakistoscope with instructions for use, and poetry. An unreleased special seventh edition was in the works, with an intended contribution from Dorothy Iannone, now also part of the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection.

SMS (Shit Must Stop) , no. 5, 1968

Cover by Congo (a Chimpanzee)

William Anthony (American, b. 1934), Custer’s Last Stand (inside cover)

Wall Batterton (British, b. 1932), Splendid Person

Edward Fitzgerald (American, born 1927), Twenty-Four Still Lifes

Neil Jenney (American, b. 1945), Bux [Bucks] American

Angus MacLise (American, 1938–1979), The Inner Pages

Bruce Nauman (American, b. 1941), Footsteps

Mel Ramos (American, b. 1935), Candy

Robert Rohm (American, b. 1934), Cut Corners

William Schwedler (American, 1942–1982), Against the Grain

Diane Wakoski (American, b. 1937), The Magellanic Clouds

Larry (Lawrence) Weiner (American, 1942–2021), Turf, Stake and String

Yoko Ono (American, born Japan 1933), Mend Pieces for John

William Copley (American, 1919–1996), The Barber’s Shop: Reflections on Picasso's Gift to the People of Chicago