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Artist who threatened to blow up art to save Julian Assange reflects on ‘extreme stress’ of the experience

Andrei Molodkin had threatened to destroy unidentified works by artists including Pablo Picasso if the WikiLeaks founder died in jail, but now they are to be set free

Anni Irish
2 July 2024
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Andrei Molodkin’s Dead Man’s Switch is a pneumatic pump connecting two barrels that could cause a chemical reaction strong enough to destroy the 16 artworks. Photograph: The Foundry Studio