Richard Prince's zero dollar bill

Phoenix shower fans with Richard Prince works

French band crown Spanish festival set by dropping 42,000 Richard Prince-designed bank notes over the crowd

Did you pick up a Richard Prince edition in Barcelona last week? As a festival souvenir, it certainly ranks above your usual t-shirt or wristband; yet, when the edition is of 42,000, we wouldn't recommend you consigning it to the next Christie's sale just yet.

The French band, Phoenix, dropped these 'zero dollar bill' notes, as they describe them, over the crowd while playing Bankrupt!, the title track from their new album, during their headline set at the Primavera festival in Barcelona, last Thursday night.

 

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The band says "We've been admiring Richard Prince's work for a few years now. A week ago we approached him asking him to design a zero dollar bill, artistic money. He came up with a design over the weekend and we printed 42,000 bills for the Primavera Festival performance."

This isn't the first time Prince has collaborated with recording artists. In 2004, one of Prince's Nurse paintings adorned the cover of Sonic Youth's album, Sonic Nurse.

 

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Of all his pop music collaborations, we like this one the best. To see a long clip of the fake dollar drop, go here, and to learn more about Richard Prince's life and work, take a look at our brilliant monograph.