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8. Employee of the Month at Marianne Boesky Gallery
This satirical rehab program not only employed those deemed too "unstable" for the workplace, but gave them a gallery show. The result: art handlers created a black pool full of water, a pyramid of flattened beer cans, and a woman playing drums with roses. Even the drumming piece suggested unhealthy living.

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