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...Meanwhile, though he might not know it, Hirst has already produced his self-portrait. It's The Golden Calf, a king of the artworld hill, worshipped for being golden, and burdened by it too. Maybe after it's sold and gone Hirst really will be able to move on to another stage of his career...
This is the rare exhibition at which visitors are actually permitted to run their hands along the sculpture. Since Moore's swelling forms fairly beg to be touched, on a busy afternoon Kew can look like an artworld petting zoo. He's still a crowd favorite. But even before he died in 1986, at the age of 88, Moore's reputation had its ups and downs. There was a time when he symbolized modern art for a whole generation. In the years right after World War II, his work epitomized a kind of modernist humanism for an era that...
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