Where’s My Pepto-Bismol In A Marble Box Content?

screenshot of marios art world instagram post of a 37 in cube of white marble filled to the absolute brim with pink pepto bismol in a large concrete floor gallery in los angeles, where the glass garage door or window whatever and the parked cars beyond are partially reflected in the surface of the pepto bismol, one of charles ray's earlier masterpieces before he started making works out of billionaires' money
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Los Angeles, have you all lost your minds? I know you have a new overpass museum and you’re excited to post and effuse about it, but it’ll be there for 500 YEARS.

Meanwhile, Charles Ray’s Pepto-Bismol in a Marble Box just went on view for the first time in ages, and only for a few WEEKS. Why every photo taken in LA is not of this mind-boggling sculpture rn is absolutely beyond me.

[ok five minutes after posting update: As I went about calculating the interior volume of Ray’s cube (1 cu. yard = 201.974 gallons), and shopping for bulk Pepto-Bismol, and finding gallon-size jugs of veterinary-grade analogs that do not have the same red & blue dyes, so the color is not quite right, I decided to look up any previous discussion of the amount of Pepto-Bismol in this thing. And in the related, earlier ink cube Ray made. And Suzanne Muchnic reviewed Ray’s original show for the LA Times. The answer, almost disappointingly, is just 10 gallons of Pepto-Bismol, barely two inches deep.]

[after lunch update: Which means that all the Pepto-Bismol in Ray’s marble cube would fit in a cube with interior dimensions of just 13.219 inches, so say 14 inches on a side. That’s like centerpiece-size. A pedestal objet. Perhaps an edition of 20 that actually fills the entire purported volume of Ray’s sculpture. Only for real.]

an altered screenshot of a charles ray sculpture in a los angeles gallery, pepto-bismol in a marble box is a 37-in cube of white carrara marble slabs seemingly filled to the top with pink pepto bismol. a miniaturized version of the marble box has been added in the lower foreground, a 14-inch box that contains the same amount of pepto bismol that ray's sculpture actually contains: 10 gallons. this is a sculpture proposed by me, greg.org, in an edition of 20, that will thus collectively contain the amount of pepto-bismol ray's sculpture appeared to contain.
Study for Ray Pepto-Bismol in a Marble Box, 2026, 14 x 14 x 14 in., Pepto-Bismol and marble, ed.20 ig

Old Charles Ray is on view at Deitch while new Charles Ray is at Marks, where plenty of people seem able to post photos of the horse. [deitch, matthewmarks]