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James Lee Byars had scheduled an exhibition at the Luis Adelantado gallery following his individual exhibition at IVAM Carmen Centre in 1994. Nevertheless, it was not to be, since Byars soon learned that he had a disease that would prevent this event from taking place. That exhibition would be one of those plans that would just have to wait, suspended in the memory of time, trapped in nostalgia, something that could have been but was not. When he found out that his cancer was incurable, Byars sent a postcard to the gallery bearing just a single sentence: “Please Luis, teach me how to die”. …