S.M.S. #2 (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. 2, 1968

Cover designed by Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968) with instructions “Remove To Play”

Nicolas Calas (American, born Switzerland, 1907–1988), Cynocephaeus & Co.

Bruce Conner (American, 1933–2008), Legal Tender

Marcia Herscovitz (American, 1945–1976), Ten Collages

Alain Jacquet (French, b. 1939), Three Color Separation

Ray Johnson (American, 1927–1995), A 2-Year Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg

Lee Lozano (American, 1930–1999), Thesis (1960)

Meret Oppenheim (Swiss, born Germany, 1902–1985), The Mirror of Genoveva

Bernard Pfriem (American, b. 1916), A Proposed Comic Section for The New York Times

George Reavey (Irish, born Russia, 1907–1976), Farewell to Faust

Clovis Trouille (French, 1889–1975), Album