Ponzi schemes in American history. As of 2013, the gallery's gold has been frozen while the SEC investigates Stanford and One Ton One Kilo cannot be mounted until the gold bullion is released. In popular culture David Bowie's 1977 song "Joe the Lion" was inspired by Burden's 1974 Trans-Fixed, where Burden crucified himself on the roof of a Volkswagen Beetle. Laurie Anderson titled her 1977 song "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You – It's the Hole (for Chris Burden)". Burden was also mentioned in the Jeff Lindsay book Dexter by Design, and in Norman Mailer's book The Faith of Graffiti. The poem "Doomed (1975)" by David Hernandez in his 2011 collection Hoodwinked describes the Burden installation of the same name in Chicago. In poet Jason Schneiderman's 2020 collection Hold Me Tight there is a sequence about Burden. Personal life Burden was married to multi-media artist Nancy Rubins. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. His studio was located in Topanga Canyon. From 1967 to 1976, Burden was married to Barbara Burden, who documented and participated in several of his early artworks. Burden died on May 10, 2015, 18 months after having been diagnosed with melanoma. He was 69. References External links Google Arts & Culture - Chris Burden Chris Burden by Robert Horvitz – detailed overview and analysis of Burden's early work, published in the May 1976 issue of Artforum magazine 1996 review of Burden's MAK retrospective Ghost Ship UbuWeb Film & Video: Chris Burden A feature article on Burden in the June 2008 issue of Men's Vogue "Poetic, Model: A New Criticism Of Chris Burden via Evil Monito Magazine" Chris Burden in the Mediateca Media Art Space Photos of Chris Burden's Urban Light near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA – free to use for non-commercial purposes 20th-century American artists American installation artists American performance artists American video artists Body art BioArtists Performance art in Los Angeles Postmodern artists 21st-century American sculptors American male sculptors 1946 births 2015 deaths Artists from Boston Sculptors from California Pomona College alumni Art in Greater Los Angeles UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from melanoma Articles containing video clips Sculptors from Massachusetts 20th-century American male artists