Prepare for the outrage! Damien Hirst's new New York show, opening on January 30 at Gagosian on Madison Ave., seems to mostly be new and yet already-done (by him) art pieces that consist of huge "manufactured diamonds" on shelves. Also: excellent timing. OMG it's a commentary on ECONOMIC DISPARITY and ARBITRARY VALUE. Smells like 2008. Let us begin the campaign to request that all of the show's profits be donated directly to Doctors Without Borders. (via)
Friday, January 15, 2010
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Let's ask Damien how much he's contributed to Haiti (or anything that's no his), shall we?
Maybe he will set up a "Pharmacy" there.
http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy/
Well played.
Isn't "how much did you donate?" just a different form of ostentation?
I support the efforts of those who make charitable donations, but I've personally found that the "donation buzz" around the Haiti disaster is just another way for people to brag (in this case, how much you have to give away).
That said, I still think Hirst is a hack.
I'm OK with people bragging about how much they give, as long as they actually GIVE it.
People still care what Hirst is doing?
His provocation is so tasteful that I honestly can't be bothered either.
Hirst showed some work last year that actually, for once, was "by him": http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/14/damien-hirst-paintings-wallace-collection
More like Damien Hirst is trying to piss Jeff Koons off! I think Hirst knows he no longer has to try with the rest of us.
Oh! Now I want to see Diamond Death $kull and Inflatable Chrome Gladiator Bunny in a cage match.
Winner gets this in lieu of a heavyweight belt.
What I want is Hirst in a tank with the "dinosaur-sized" South African shark that ate the surfer. We'll call it "The Physical Impossibility of Escape From This Thing That Wants to Eat Me."
Philanthropy is often ostentation. And money put to good use is just that. The ostentation doesn't sap the power of antibiotics, nor does self-rightiousness.
I'm just curious about people who make stupid and trivial art; is there something redeeming behind the show they put on?
Overheard by me at Gagosian re a particularly split-beaverful Schiele show:
Receptionist: " Yeah well you know what Larry says: people love smut."
It's all for you, Damien.
The physical impossibility of death is a cheap knock-off of the LA County Museum of Natural History's 1984 formaldehyde encasement of a megamouth shark.
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