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...explore new avenues, why Hirst has decided to throttle back production of the spin and butterfly paintings. The Sotheby's sale is also a canny way of getting his name out to new buyers. "There's our global reach," says Cheyenne Westphal, Sotheby's European chairman of contemporary art. "We're everywhere, and we act as a magnet for all the new people coming into the market." And a lot of those people might be more comfortable in an auction house - where anyone with cash can flex their muscles - than in top galleries, where dealers sometimes try to place works...
...diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price level it would not only be the most expensive work by a living artist, but a punch line to Hirst's conceptualist joke about the madness of the overheated art market. Just like The Golden Calf, the diamond skull would go into the world to prove its own argument about false values...
...Hirst also seems to have a second father figure - the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992. Hirst says Bacon's bleak, tumultuous work made an impression on him early: "It was like album-cover art. It was gory, high impact. When you're young you love that kind of stuff. But then I started painting, and everything I was painting was kind of shit Bacons, really bad copies. So I gave...
...Words and actions have consequences, some of them unintended, which is why I have always thought that politicians and diplomats should be forced to memorize a few haunting lines that the Irish poet W.B. Yeats wrote when he was an old man, looking back over a lifetime of art and political activism. "Did that play of mine send out / Certain men the English shot...
...year. Instead, he got a million in the first week. "Eighteen days after we released it, we'd exceeded the number of known species on Earth," he says. "I thought that was a nice metric." Wright also discovered that he'd inadvertently created a new art form: Spore-nography. People were using Spore to create creatures that looked like, well, genitals. "We anticipated that," Wright says. "But I was really surprised at how good the Sporn was. Because we were doing these really pathetic-looking penises, you know? And they were doing these amazing, really explicit things that would animate...