Art.view: Dollars, cents and sensibility Nov 15, 2009
The cynical age of Damien Hirst, et al, might well have passed. Now we all have to use our eyes. (The Economist)
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Nov 5, 2009
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art A Review. In contemporary art, there are many questions to be raised as to why works sell and more strangely, how much they sell for. (Suite101.com)
Art market looks ugly Oct 31, 2009
Earlier this month, a monumental work by the world's currently top-grossing artist Damien Hirst scooped a record at auction in Asia but fell short of its estimate. Another of the globe's best-selling contemporary artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat, also recently slid 40 percent. (iAfrica.com)
Absolut Vodka Institutes the Absolut Art Award Oct 30, 2009
- Keren Cytter Receives the First-Ever Absolut Art Award. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 30 /CNW/ - Through its frequent collaborations with cutting-edge artists, designers and photographers, ABSOLUT VODKA is a proud supporter of the arts. (Canada Newswire)
Art.view: Climbing back Oct 25, 2009
Jos; Mugrabi, a New York-based Israeli-Colombian dealer-collector, whose family owns 800 Warhols and 300 works by Damien Hirst, was highly visible in both sales. At Sotheby s he bought Mr Hirst s pale-blue-and-white circular painting, , for the low estimate 450,000 (541,250 with commission and taxes). (The Economist)
British critics lash amateurish Hirst paintings Oct 16, 2009
Out of love Damien Hirst with one of his paintings ... DAMIEN HIRST must be wishing he'd stuck with the pickled sharks ... Out of love … Damien Hirst with one of his paintings. (The Age, Australia)
'Whirlwind' Swiss curator tops modern art power list Oct 15, 2009
LONDON (AFP) - Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was named the most powerful figure in the contemporary art world on Thursday, but Britain's Damien Hirst tumbled almost 50 places in ArtReview magazine's "power 100" list. Obrist, co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects at London's Serpentine Gallery, was described as "one of the most active and well-networked figures the contemporary art world has seen". (Yahoo! Asia News)
Hirst tumbles down art power list Oct 15, 2009
Damien Hirst has been concentrating on painting. Contemporary artist Damien Hirst has lost number one spot on the annual art power list, dropping to 48th place. (BBC News -- UK)
Hirst's Worst? Oct 15, 2009
Press views: Damien Hirst's paintings. Damien Hirst with his painting White Roses and Butterflies ... Contemporary artist Damien Hirst is best known for his headline-grabbing conceptual artworks, which include animals suspended in formaldehyde. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hong Kong to auction "Butterflies" of Damien Hirst Oct 6, 2009
HONG KONG, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- A monumental work by British artist Damien Hirst from his highly acclaimed "Butterfly" series is set to be sold in a modern and contemporary art auction in Hong Kong Wednesday, the Seoul Auction said on Monday. Born in 1965, Hirst is known as one of the world's most famous and commercially successful contemporary artists. (Xinhuanet, China)
Art.view: Against the odds Oct 4, 2009
Thinking of more ambitious artist-dealers, he adds, Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars. I love my bicycle. (The Economist)
Hirst 'gives up pickled animals' Oct 2, 2009
Damien Hirst has revealed that, for three years, he has been secretly painting alone in his garden shed. The artist has told the BBC there will be no more large-scale installation pieces, including his signature pickled animals and medicine cabinets. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Early Hirst collage goes on sale Sep 25, 2009
A collage created by artist Damien Hirst during his student years is to be sold at auction in Dorchester. Red Rubber Ball, which features random articles found by Hirst, including a severed doll's head and a dried rose, is expected to fetch up to 50,000. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Bedfellows Sep 21, 2009
They tend to point to the colourful Pop aesthetics of artists such as Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami and the rigorous seriality of Damien Hirst. Yet they often neglect an artist who is similarly obsessed with the material world, and who has also made a reliable business out of his art. (The Economist)
The art of the autopsy Sep 20, 2009
He was unhappy, however, about another source of his fame: His textbook was a bible to several avant-garde British artists, including Damien Hirst and Mat Collishaw. Hirst gained fame through a number of pathology-inspired works, most famously The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - a dead shark in formaldehyde. (Boston Globe)
Damien Hirst Art Values Recover a Year After Record Sale, Lehman Collapse Sep 17, 2009
Damien Hirst Values Recover a Year After Sale, Lehman Collapse - Bloomberg ... Damien Hirst Values Recover a Year After Sale, Lehman Collapse. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Doomsday Derbyshire Sep 10, 2009
He cites the case of the Italian artist Piero Manzoni whose Merda D Artista consists of high-priced cans of his own solid waste, which prestigious American galleries and collectors now covet, especially if they can t spend their millions on one of Damien Hirst s works made from rotting fish and maggoty dead cows. I laughed over Derbyshire s savaging of contemporary poetry, especially the kind that gets declaimed at Democratic presidential inaugurations. (The American Conservative)
Catholic church's anti-abuse chief quits on eve of scathing report Aug 28, 2009
A new art book with works by Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley aims to calm and entertain babies. . (Yahoo News -- Catholic Church Abuse Scandal)
Art.view: Art and intrigue Aug 23, 2009
October may produce scenes of rare frenzy at the Wallace Collection when an exhibition of 25 oils by Damien Hirst opens. He has chosen to show his work in gilded frames against walls of blue silk specially woven in Lyon. (The Economist)
PAUL STEINITZ : God Only Knows Why My Trip Never Ended Aug 14, 2009
His portraits were on view next to the works by of Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Cindy Sherman. Aged 41, Paul has two children; he lives and works in Paris, New York, and London. (AbsoluteArts.com)
'Anyone could paint that' and 7 other myths about art Aug 7, 2009
Media starlets Damien Hirst, Banksy, and Vanessa Beecroft generate media spectacle around their personality and art designed to elicit a response. But the power of a media story is not the same as great art and shouldn't be mistaken as such. (Christian Science Monitor)
Arts: Bronze in them hills Aug 4, 2009
Their Cotswolds foundry, called Pangolin (after the scaled African anteater with a bronzy patina) has worked closely with some of Britain s leading sculptors and conceptual artists including Phillip King, Jon Buck, Ann Christopher, Damien Hirst and the late Angus Fairhurst. Mr Kingdon s fascination with bronze dates back to his childhood growing up in Uganda, the son of a noted English zoologist and artist, Jonathan Kingdon. (The Economist)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] What have the Romans, Greeks, Japanese, etc, done for us? Aug 2, 2009
Armstrong, by contrast, sees good in almost everyone involved with culture (the British artist Damien Hirst and a researcher at Florences Villa I Tatti looking into whether the camels in paintings of the Three Wise Men had crossed or uncrossed legs being two exceptions). Its only when you notice that one of this authors jobs is Philosopher in Residence at the Melbourne Business School that you suddenly understand the motivation behind this book. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Lance snubs champ's celebration Jul 28, 2009
The Texan rode the Champs Elysees on a bike covered with hundreds of dead butterflies customised by British artist Damien Hirst. AFP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Contador's reign on Tour expected to last Jul 27, 2009
American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong shows his Madone Trek bicycle designed by British artist Damien Hirst after the 21st stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 164 kilometers (101. 9 miles) with start in Montereau-Fault-Yonne and finish in Paris, France, Sunday July 26, 2009. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Art.view: Happy days for some Jul 5, 2009
The prices of works by Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Richard Prince the artists most closely associated with the boom have dropped considerably in the past year. Mr Prince s nurse paintings seem to offer a textbook case. (The Economist)
King of kitsch opens Popeye series in London Jul 1, 2009
"Another recurring theme in the show is the inflatable lobster, a reference to surrealist Salvador Dali's use of the animal in his art as well as his elongated mustache.Click for related contentIn the 2003 canvas "Elvis," the creature is painted over two images of a semi-naked woman staring voluptuously at the viewer, a sexual reference that also runs through Koons' art.Like Briton Damien Hirst, Koons embraces the role of celebrity artist, drawing criticism from some commentators who dismiss his... (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Sales drop as Indian art loses stock May 10, 2009
"Problems first appeared in September 2008, around the time of the Damien Hirst sale," said Anders Petterson, the founder of ArtTactic, referring to the UK artist's auction at Sotheby's that raised 111. 5 million (R1. (Business Report, South Africa)
In bed with Lily Allen May 8, 2009
Her Wikipedia entry, she complains, is riddled with lies but she has to drill down to the bottom to find misinformation: she did not have Kawasaki disease as an infant, doesn't have Damien Hirst paintings in her bedroom and has "never been a size 12". Allen's reality, it turns out, is largely of her own making. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Four vie for Britains contentious Turner Prize Apr 29, 2009
Past winners include Brit Art upstarts such as transvestite potter Grayson Perry, dung-daubing painter Chris Ofili and shark pickler Damien Hirst. Whatever people might say about the shortlist, it does provide a huge draw to the public, said Stephen Deuchar, director of Londons Tate Britain gallery. (MSNBC -- News)
Crystal cave up for Turner Prize Apr 29, 2009
Previous winners have included Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Rachel Whiteread and Grayson Perry. Last year Mark Leckey won with a pop culture influenced film featuring Homer Simpson and Felix the Cat. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bidding for investments Apr 11, 2009
Recently, there have also been stories of Bernard Madoffs New York Mets baseball tickets up for sale on eBay, while the month Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc went under, British contemporary artist Damien Hirst made 111mil from 218 of his works. Christies Malaysia consultant Lim Meng Hong says investing in such items takes a bit of legwork as collectors need to do research on quality, rarity and pricing, among others. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
TWC nabs John Lennon biopic Mar 21, 2009
She was previously part of the loosely defined Young British Artist group, alongside the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, which turned the Brit art scene on its head during much of the 1990s. Taylor-Wood's debut short "Love You More," produced by her mentor, the late Anthony Minghella, was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival last year. (Variety)
A sweeping look at Chinese contemporary art Mar 20, 2009
But I compare the situation to British art in the 1990s, when such attention-craving artists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin provoked a rush to adverse judgment (and priceless publicity), obscuring a creative surge powered, for the most part, by more subtle and intelligent artists. The Peabody Essex show provides a chance not just to see the recent flourishing of art in China as the fascinating historical phenomenon it is, but to try to spot the artists who really matter. (Boston Globe)
China's art market: Cold or maybe hibernating? Mar 11, 2009
But by 2007, 5 of the 10 best-selling living artists at auction were Chinese-born, led by Zhang Xiaogang, who trailed only Gerhard Richter and Damien Hirst. That year, Zhang's auction sales totaled $56 million, according to Artprice. (International Herald Tribune)
Lock & Load With 50 Cent Mar 1, 2009
50 likes Damien Hirst. The rapper says he first came across the British artist's diamond-encrusted skull titled "For the Love of God" while reading a book in Dubai. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Shock and the new Feb 15, 2009
(Take heed, all you buyers who think one Damien Hirst butterfly or spot painting is just like another. A weak market just exacerbates these differences. (The Economist)
Mark Wallinger's white horse is a winner Feb 13, 2009
Yet at the same time "Horse" is a manifestation of the nonchalant cool of the YBA generation the group of artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin of which Wallinger is very much part. And the fact that the British people have taken this work to their hearts to the extent that it already feels an inalienable part of the landscape is a testament to the ever-increasing acceptance of contemporary art in this country. (Telegraph.co.uk)
London Calling: one business that... Feb 9, 2009
More recently, the depot served as a studio where Damien Hirst and his artistic team turned out their money-spinning creations. Traces of paint can still be seen on the floor. (New York Post -- Business)
A girlish rebel tones it down, sort of Feb 8, 2009
"OK, kind of true, I guess." She had to drill down nearly to the bottom to find misinformation: she did not have Kawasaki disease as an infant, doesn't have Damien Hirst paintings in her bedroom and has "never been a size 12.". 1. (International Herald Tribune)
This wild girl's a homebody now Feb 8, 2009
"O.K., kind of true, I guess." She had to drill down nearly to the bottom to find misinformation: she did not have Kawasaki disease as an infant, doesn't have Damien Hirst paintings in her bedroom and has "never been a size 12.". 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
