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Selling NYC Trash for $25 | Art News
After the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding frenzy, artist Justin Gignac cashed in on the chaos by selling “NYCPocket Garbage” — tiny clear boxes filled with street trash like bottle caps and lost AirPods — for $25 each, selling out fast. This quirky project, born in college as a test of packaging’s power to sell anything, has evolved from $5 cubes in Times Square into coveted cultural artifacts, each dated and numbered as time capsules. Gignac chose the Swift-Kelce event for its electric buzz and controversy, even snagging an ovulation test kit — and while he missed friendship bracelets…
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