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« Reply #60 on Mar 22, 2012, 10:13am »

Great post!

I actually enjoy most of Hirst's work, but there's clearly a lot going on behind the scenes with his market - not all of it on the up and up.

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« Reply #61 on Mar 22, 2012, 10:20am »

new website including live video from the 'factory'
http://www.damienhirst.com/

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #62 on Mar 22, 2012, 3:18pm »

Some cowardy custard smited me.
Are you on here Damien?

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #63 on Mar 24, 2012, 12:30pm »

Mar 21, 2012, 10:36am, solar77 wrote:

Haha - Choe is certainly up there, but I'm pretty sure Hirst still has him covered by a wide margin.

His massive 2008 Sotheby's 'Beautiful' sale alone grossed $200mm. The sheer amount of work this guy has sold in the last 25 years is absurd and much of it was for 6-7 figures a pop.

I guess no one really knows. Hirst sells alot but also has alot of expenses. Sunday Times Rich List, placed Hirst at a net worth of £235m in 2011. In David Choe's interview with Howard Stern, he hinted that he was worth in excess of $500 million.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #64 on Apr 2, 2012, 11:53pm »

Some photos from the press preview.

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Re: Damien Hirst
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« Reply #66 on May 23, 2012, 8:38am »

It's fairly well known around these parts that I see Hirst as a corrupting influence on our art institutions. With this in mind here is a current review from one of Britain's high profile art critics in one of our top quality broadsheets:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2....art-of-comments

'The exquisitely produced catalogue has an essay by a senior curator at the Prado in Madrid, who draws comparisons with Caravaggio and Velázquez. Yikes. It would be impressive stuff if we did not have the paltry reality of Hirst's paintings before our eyes. At White Cube, I pass from picture to picture, trying not to crack up laughing or actually swear out loud. The exercise feels like a parody of being an art critic, for these are humourless parodies of paintings. Like the Prado expert I can spot the analogies – lemons, how Zurbarán – but they work only to destroy and humiliate Hirst's daubs'.

This section is both poignant - and to my mind - completely on the money:

'At their very best these paintings lack the skill of thousands of amateur artists who paint at weekends all over Britain – and yet he can hire fools to compare him with Caravaggio'.

Another cultural institution's integrity bites the dust.

Edited to add: Apologies. I have had trouble getting the link to work. All is fine now.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #67 on May 26, 2012, 10:31am »

At the Tramshed restaurant in London that serves beef and chicken items.

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« Reply #68 on May 30, 2012, 2:21am »

I went to the tramshed for lunch last week, that piece was apparently the creation of damien and mark hix (who owns that and hix) over a very drunk dinner table..

the piece at the back is also from hirsts studio

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« Reply #69 on May 30, 2012, 6:20am »

May 30, 2012, 2:21am, volvic wrote:

the piece at the back is also from hirsts studio

The cow and Chicken piece ? Thats a direct copy from the ads for the kids show

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« Reply #70 on May 30, 2012, 7:29am »

yeah, cow and chicken...

again, i think it was just another idea that they came up with together and used his studio to create it...those production assistants will do anything!

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« Reply #71 on May 30, 2012, 7:33am »

May 30, 2012, 7:29am, volvic wrote:

yeah, cow and chicken...

again, i think it was just another idea that they came up with together and used his studio to create it...those production assistants will do anything!

Probably makes a nice change from all the spots