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  • July 2008

    • What's With all the Skulls?

      Esquire  |  Jul 5, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      What's With all the Skulls?

      (Newser) - Heavy metal and Halloween, make room for haute couture. “What used to be a symbol for borderline-sociopathic tough guys with weird design fetishes—Hells Angels, pirates, Nazis—has become a trope de luxe,” writes Stephen Marche in Esquire . The skull, a symbol of death with deep religious significance, “has suddenly become hypermodern, totally in and of the moment.” More »

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      fashion  • Indiana Jones  • pop culture  • Esquire  • Damien Hirst  • pop art  • skull

  • June 2008

    • Hirst Goes Straight to Auction

      Time  |  Jun 19, 08 10:36 AM CDT

      Hirst Goes Straight to Auction

      (Newser) - In recent years, art collectors and auction houses have been reaping the profits of soaring contemporary art prices, while living artists watched with chagrin. Now Damien Hirst has stepped into the fray, bypassing the gallery system and bringing his latest works straight to auction. "It’s a very democratic way to sell art," says Hirst, "and it feels like a natural evolution for contemporary art." More »

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      art  • Sotheby's  • art auction  • Damien Hirst  • gallery

  • September 2007

    • Hirst Sculpture Springs a Leak

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 28, 07 7:21 AM CDT

      Hirst Sculpture Springs a Leak

      (Newser) - Damien Hirst won fame and fortune for his installations of animals preserved in formaldehyde, but now, writes the Telegraph , his vitrines are in less-than-perfect shape. The Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo recently discovered liquid seeping out of sculpture Mother and Child Divided , which preserves a cow and calf sliced into segments. It's not the first Hirst to have integrity problems. More »

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      art  • Damien Hirst  • Oslo

  • June 2007

    • London Art Sales Soar

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 25, 07 11:45 AM CDT

      London Art Sales Soar

      (Newser) - Francis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is the Google of the art world,''  a New York dealer told Bloomberg. More »

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      London  • art  • auction  • art market  • Sotheby's  • Damien Hirst  • Francis Bacon

    • Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 2, 07 3:10 PM CDT

      Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend

      (Newser) - The priciest work of modern art ever created is on view at a London gallery, priced at just $100 million. Death-obsessed artist Damien Hirst cast a human skull in platinum and encrusted it with diamonds, creating a piece he calls "For the Love of God." He kept the original teeth, he tells Bloomberg, as "a reminder that it's real." More »

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      art  • Damien Hirst  • diamond  • modern art  • skull

  • May 2007

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