Damien Hirst at Sotheby's

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

Wrong. The most expensive work sold of a living "artist" is $80 million USD for some piece of crap by Jasper Johns. Don't ask me why. I only report the insanity, I don't have an explanation for it.

[OhByGolly1]

So sad to see these people lose their money behind art which he did not even create himself. He is probably one of the most reviled con ARTists in the world living today.

[lukem118]

@OhByGolly1 I agree,I was reading about him a while back and it said he has an office of staff, artists arn't menat to have an office, they are not ment to be businesses are they? but damien is.

[LovePeachesEnRegalia]

Installation is interesting and it can really spark off the imagination, but the only question I ask is, where do we go from here? Installation was around in 1917 with, say, Marcel Duchamp's fountain, art has become much too trend orientated. I live in Britain and during my annual visits to some university degree shows I hardly ever see a painting on the wall, and almost definitely; installations make up the vast majority of the shows. But this merely my personal observation and worry.

[MrChubbington]

We are in the dark ages of art. The market dictates what is art today as with the music industry. Basically the dark ages. Hopefully time will rectify why a cabinet full of empty medecin boxes is sold at 6million usd, or a goats dead head surrounded by a load of flies is a masterpiece. A crappy time we live in.

[nymphetamine9mm]

amen. :'[

[SugarKatie]

@MrChubbington once the shock value is gone, these works will be worthless. i can understand why people wanna see his works becoz they are intrigued, but snapping them up at outrageously high prices is totally insane.

[ravenmoon3]

The emporers new clothes

[juliakasprzak]

this art is not art and won't stay. i can't wait to see it all crush, bloody rubbish !

[OhByGolly1]

@juliakasprzak Your prophecy has come to past...read Wikepedia

[hankjunior]

Wealthy motherfuckers want quality and craftsmanship and some nastiness, give them what they want. Damien delivers the goods.

The golden bull is a home run.

[ALLDALI]

the only things he is going to far...is in selling directly through Sotheby's...he thinks he doens't need the galleries anymore...many artists think like that...but they forgot that it was the galleries that made them what they are now !

[naumanhumayun]

dude, no galley made what me is

[deejayhart]

The man is a thief, who has only made a few good works - who had a decade-long hiatus for his farm-tending, coke-sniffing and deal-making.

Like Koons, he has emerged with work so vulgar, so kitsch, it would shame a sheik. Who buys this shit? Own up... Conceptually it is lunk-headed college student material. Apparently this work is dominating an economy that is otherwise going under. This is stupid art. Diamonds and pure gold? Vive la revolution, and put Damien's head on the spike. He's a turd.

[soniccage]

Koons is brilliant, as is Hirst

[deejayhart]

Well, what Damien does is this - he distills every important aspect of art since the 50s. Literally. We See Bacon in the frames. Carl Andre in the minimalism. Beuys in the stamps that have been used in that grotesque NYC Lever show. Koons in the polished production values. Richter in the randomised spot paintings. Kippenberger in his presentation as a drug and drink fiend. A man in thrall to the Factory ethos, and yes, Kiefer, Baselitz, Koons, Richter, all of these put stars in Damien's eyes.

[MIDJOBZ]

snarky crafty bastard, checking well spying isnt he! oi i aint jelouse of so called artists that cut up pigs and cows and watching how flies die!

[chadicious]

Hirst is very good at what he does.

[MIDJOBZ]

what a woddle load of shitty art.

[MrWowforever]

someones jealous

[sketchyfolk]

lot of money of bad art