This spring the Park Avenue Armory will be the site of his artistic expedition to Mars, complete with a biology lab for Martian plant cultivation. (Sachs borrowed the technology from marijuana growers.) And this month his show "Work" opens at New York's Sperone Westwater gallery, featuring pieces like a Japanese tea ceremony and a version of Roy Lichtenstein's razor-blade painting "Duridium, " made here out of screws.

WSJ: Tom Sachs

When completed, it will feature a biology-based wastewater recycling plant built with environmentally correct construction techniques, heated and cooled by geothermal technology and powered by photovoltaic solar panels.

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