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...pushed up prices and attracted speculators, generating a frenzy in India similar to the ones that engulfed the U.S. and European markets. An Indian auction house, Osian's, even began marketing a sort of mutual fund for fine art. Artists, too, developed unrealistic expectations. "Everyone wants to be Damian Hirst overnight," says Mumbai gallery owner Jai Bhandarkar...
...mere $1,350). Despite their collecting more than 3,000 signatures of support in less than two weeks, Martell acknowledges that they got significantly less money than hoped for. Still, during Tuesday's auctioning, Bochenek made 10 successful bids worth nearly $7,560. (Watch TIME's video "Damien Hirst: Rich Artist Gets Richer...
...most-talked-about art of the past decade or so was shiny, shrill and brazen. Damien Hirst's diamond-crusted skull, Jeff Koons' big mirror-steel bling things, Richard Prince's slutty-nurse paintings: they were all the swaggering output of a boom time. There were plenty of artists working in a different key, but no one could claim that anguished moralists were the representative figures...
...prices started going higher and higher," says Zhao. "Last year the price was pushed way too high, and it's got to come down." In 2006, a collection of dreamlike portraits and landscapes by Zhang brought in just over $24 million - more than British art phenom Damien Hirst made in all of 2006. At Sotheby's Oct. 4 auction, the highest selling painting was Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline: Big Family No. 1," which sold for just under $3 million. In May, at rival auction house Christie's, a diptych of eight masked youths by Zeng Fanzhi fetched $9.7 million...
...Good Story, Bad Taste I was impressed by Richard Lacayo's article on Britain's Damien Hirst and his $100 million Sotheby's auction [Sept. 15]. He is a great artist. TIME has, over the years, built itself a reputation of good story-writing and my family has been reading it for the past 20 years. I, a 13-year-old, have seen a flaw that has been bothering me for quite a while: the use of vulgar language (or evidence thereof). When I read TIME, I do not expect to read nonsense, and if I wish to read something...