Word: hirst
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...world that I find very annoying, and I guess threatening. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll." Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball comics, remembers visiting a modern-art museum in Amsterdam with Ware: "After about three rooms of Damien Hirst-ish paintings, I thought he was going to start tearing the art off the walls...
...porcelain confections be on view in the world's museums, or will they have become like garden gnomes, sociological testimony to the degenerate taste of collectors in the late 20th century? Will people still gawp at those stinking fragments, awash in their tank of formaldehyde, the relics of Damien Hirst's much-hyped dead shark...
...just that one's every artistic exploit is broadcast by a reactionary press, giving one the status of a naughty rock star. And it's not just that one can, on the strength of that notoriety, open a profitable business like Pharmacy, the restaurant owned by Damien Hirst, known for his work with polka dots and animals in formaldehyde...
DIED. IVAN HIRST, 84, British army engineer who retooled Volkswagen's bombed-out factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, at World War II's end to roll out one of the firm's prewar prototypes, which soon became the popular Beetle; in Marsden, England. The British army ordered 20,000 for transport duty, ironically turning Hitler's dream of a "people's car" into a reality...