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Amy Winehouse 'Shot Dead' For Art: PICTURES

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Amy Winehouse has been portrayed as a dead musician at a new art installation in New York.

The sculpture of the singer show her surrounded by a puddle of blood after being shot in the head by William S Burroughs, an American poet, who sits nearby.

Marco Perego, the artists behind the piece, said it was intended as a “warning” for the star to change her lifestyle.

The singer's spokesperson told the Times newspaper: “It’s a funny kind of tribute. The artist seems in thrall to a tabloid persona that is not the real Amy. People often use her image to sell their work.”

The sculpture, entitled The Only Good Rock Star Is a Dead Rock Star, is inspired by an incident in which Burroughs, a drug addict, shot his girlfriend at a party in Mexico City in 1951.

The piece of art, which is on sale for $100,000, is on display now at the Half Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Amy Winehouse installation
(Elisabeth Hass, courtesy of half gallery)
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