I know I probably mention Damien Hirst more than any other artist, but it’s because he makes more news than any other artist. The man is a marketing genius.
Hirst says Art is too Expensive..
Damien Hirst has a personal fortune of around £200 million and is capable of pulling off his own $200 million auction, but he thinks art is too expensive. He spoke the Independent and said “I think it’s quite good [adjustment in art market prices] because it became unreal … You start to think you are touched by God. I have always thought that art is worth what the next guy is prepared to pay.”
Those with a shed full of Damien Hirst works won’t like the reality of the next quote by Hirst from the Independent article.. “If I want to sell new work, I’ll price it lower. If people have got less money, you can either just shut your door and say, ‘Screw everybody’, or I can wait until everyone can afford my work or price it cheaper.”
The gloom was prompted after “Beautiful Artemis Thor Neptune Odin Delusional Sapphic Inspirational Hypnosis Painting” failed to sell at auction for $3 to 4 million. Hirst said that the current seller paid him half the current asking price less than a year ago, so it hardly sounds like a meltdown.
Art+ Auction Looks back at the Great Hirst Sale
From the Art+Auction report.. “London dealer Helly Nahmad, although an early supporter of Hirst, refrained from bidding at the evening sale. “I prefer to be in something that has a lot less risk,” he says. Nahmad feels the entire sale was indicative of the art-market “moving closer to a business model.” He characterizes Hirst as being “between a superstar artist and a luxury brand” and terms investing in his latest oeuvre as “much easier than buying a modern picture— all you need to know are two or three facts: It’s Hirst, it’s Sotheby’s, it’s luxury. . . . You could have a Hirst company as large as LVMH.” Continue Reading the article..
Damien Hirst Stocking Fillers
If you don’t think the sky is falling and you have a spare 50 thousand pounds this christmas, you might want to visit the Damien Hirst shop for some plastic skulls painted with house paint. Other Criteria has a variety of Hirst skull options for sale.
£50,000 + VAT
Hallucinatory Head (OC 6158) Damien Hirst
210 x 140 x 140 mm
Household gloss on plastic skull
2008
Or if you like your skulls with a lower jaw and eyes..
£50,000 + VAT
Transcendent Head (OC 6136) Damien Hirst
210 x 140 x 140 mm
Household gloss on plastic skull
2008
Damien Hirst the Art Director – Sienna Miller Video
Mr Hirst has also become the art director of a music video starring actress Sienna Miller. “See the Light” is a song by The Hours music group. Sienna Miller pushes her way through a very Hirst-like landscape..
The Hours – See The Light
That’s all from the Damien Hirst News Blog today! 
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