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Jason Jacques Gallery is thrilled to announce SMOKE, an exhibition in partnership with the Last Prisoner Project.

Situated in an ambient space thought up but Rick Owens, SMOKE centers on seventeen contemporary artists and designers' responses to a 19th century silver and cloisonné Smoking Set by the French jeweler Boucheron. A beautiful, troubling, and enticing art-object with a complex history that’s relevant to many of the issues we encounter today.

Smoke is an exploration of past vs present attitudes towards 'substance use,' broadly termed, as leisure, as luxury, as medicine, …