Damien Hirst, How High, High Brow, Art Thou? ~ High Art in Post Modern Renaissance
Art At Last ~ The Golden Calf/ Damien Hirst
At least some current artists are receiving the recognition they deserve. Some very poignant ideas stirs some very deep pockets...
Damien Hirst defies worth:
The Golden Calf sold within the Sotheby's estimate of $18 million to $20 million, but surpassed Hirst's previous record at auction - the $18.4 million paid for his medicine cabinet Lullaby Spring. In its possible significance, people sometimes ask why Jewry, which is capitalistic, should favor Bolshevism, which is the announced enemy of capital. It is an interesting question. Why should a New York Jewish financier, an officer of the government of the United States, help finance a “Red” publication which even our tolerant government cannot stomach? In addition to the fact that it is only “Gentile capital” that is attacked, the answer is that the Jew who has fallen for the worship of the Golden Calf is anxious to keep in the good graces of the Jewry of the East-the Mongolian Jews-who are rampaging against orderly systems of society. It is quite useful when there is a revolution in Paris to have the 600 houses which you may own spared by the incendiary mobs-as were Rothschild’s houses. Zionism has been one of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern Jew can unite. Indeed, it was the Eastern Jew that compelled the Western Jew to take a favorable stand on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who are receiving the freedom of our cities today in their various aspects as “German” and “British” scientists are Eastern Jews. They have come to a contest with the Jews of America on the question of Money. The Jews of America have smothered some very ugly charges. The Jews of the East, more recently of Germany or England, are not likely to be browbeaten by the moneybags of Jewish New York, for the Eastern type of Jew knows of a situation in which money is the most useless thing in the world-and that is why he is feared and favored by Western Jewry of the Golden Calf.
And We Remember Zion
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/Intl_Jew_full_version/ij51.htm
Damien Hirst Goldmine/How Forbes Views Their Golden Works ~ Sotheby's sale night totals over $126 million dollars. Forbes.com Collector reveals the highlights.
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/billionaires/mm_billies060508&partner=contextual
Other Hirst works that sold at Sotheby's:
- Afterlife, a butterfly painting, went for the equivalent of $2.6 million, almost double Sotheby's estimate.
- Fragments of Paradise, a sculpture of stainless steel, glass and manufactured diamonds, sold for $10 million.
- Heaven Can Wait, a triptych that combines Hirst's spin painting with butterflies, sold for $1.9 million, twice the upper estimate.
- Two butterfly paintings were sold for charity for $3 million total.
Hirst $135M richer from London auction of his works
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/15/hirst-auction.html
Art From The Heart ~ Heart Of Gold
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Hanging Heart (Red/Gold), 1995-2004, from the series Celebration. High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 106 x 85 x 40 inches / 269,2 x 215,9 x 101,6 cm ~ Installation view, Palazzo Grassi, Venice 2006. Credit: Santi Caleca s.a.s.
Koons's stainless steel Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) soared to $US23.561 million, including commission, obliterating the artist's $US11.8 million record set one day earlier by his Diamond (Blue) sculpture.
Koons, Bacon lead $US316m sale
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/16/2092558.htm
All That Sparkles Is Not Gold ~ Blue Diamond For a Blue World
Jeff Koons' sculpture, "Diamond (Blue)," a cut above, seven foot wide fake diamond made of stainless steel, sold for only $11.8 mil at Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
The Art Market Blues
http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2007/11/the_art_market_blues.html
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I went on a very long walk today... I came across the blue diamond by Jeff Koons. It's going to be auctioned off by Christies... I took some photos of it.
The Heart of New York
http://jeneratorrant.blogspot.com/2007/10/jeff-koons-blue-diamond.html
Diamonds for Damien ~ The Original Skull titled "For the Love of God"
A jewel-encrusted platinum skull, seen in this image made available in Amterdam, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008, and titled "For the Love of God," created by British artist Damien Hirst, will be on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands for six weeks starting Nov. 1, spokeswoman Elles Kamphuis said on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. The piece is decorated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pear-shaped pink diamond in the forehead. Kamphuis says the piece was cast from a skull Hirst purchased from a London dealer of a man who died in the 18th century. The teeth are real. (AP Photo/ Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Private Collection courtesy Murderme Ltd and Jay Jopling/White Cube, London)
ABC-Dutch national museum to exhibit Damien Hirst's jewel-encrusted platinum skull piece
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5656915
Diamonds For All ~ "For The Laugh Of God"
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"We must buy the diamond skull for Britain" - this proclamation was made to his countrymen by Jonathan Jones, a journalist of the Guardian to keep the"most amazing artefacts ever made in this country". Jones thus encourages the British to purchase this "work of art", made by"the treasure of Great Britain" Damien Hirst, which is currently on themarket for 50 million pounds. Like the cheap Polish labour well known to you, Polish artist Peter Fusswishes to relieve the British nation from such a great expense."For the laugh of God" by Peter Fuss will be available in the Polish car on ART CAR BOOT FAIR at a competitive price of 1000 pounds. To make his work, Peter Fuss used about 9870 pieces of glass polished andcut to look like diamonds, worth 250 pounds and spent 18 hours to completethe piece. Income from sale of Fuss's skull and its accompanying graphics issupposed to amount to 2000 pounds - a reasonable facsimile? Plagiarism truly is the sincerest form of flattery. Now everyone can enjoy a crystal skull... ha-hah!
Peter Fuss For the Laugh of God
http://peterfuss.com/forthelaughofgod/
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6_1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
In The Realm of Cleopatra ~ Koon Suit Cicciolina
Italian porn star CICCIOLINA, the former muse & wife of Pop Artist and onetime Wall Street commodities broker JEFF KOONS is currently suing her ex-husband for $2.3 million, claiming the artist hasn't paid child support for their son Ludwig, in over nine years. Cicciolina, a former member of Italy’s parliament whose porno nickname loosely means the “fleshy one" will perhaps be best remembered as the subject of one of Koons' most explicit series of sculptural work depicting the then-married couple in the act. One of the world's wealthiest artists, Koons sold his massive stainless-steel “Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" for $23.6 million recently at Sotheby’s …
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NEWS///POP LIFE///JEFF KOONS x CICCIOLINA… the art of love
http://www.supertouchart.com/2008/04/08/newspop-lifejeff-koons-x-cicciolina/
Damien Hirst Money for Old Rope by Mark D.
Interesting comment on Sotheby's Hirst sale. Do I detect a hint of jealousy?
By the conclusion of the two-day auction, it was clear his bet had paid off. Predictably, its success was the source of much gleeful derision. A member of the "Stuckist" group that has vociferously denounced Hirst, Charles Thomson, remarked earlier this week: "Someday in the future people will be laughing their heads off at all this. Actually, quite a lot of people are right now. One of them is Damien Hirst, on his way to the bank."
Welcome to Stuckism
http://www.stuckism.com/
The Days of Billy Childish
http://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/38485.html
Maybe Where the Feud Started and Some Very Interesting Commentaries
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2005/07/no_stuckists_fo.html
How The World Sees It... ~ A Story by Moira G. Weigel 09.18.08
Maybe the lesson that lessens The Golden Calf is that Art, like Gold, keeps its value? At least art has tangible worth as original human expression. Money propped up on debt is worthless as the paper it's printed on. That too can be recycled. And numbers on a stock market computer equally wrong when they can be subjectively changed and tampered with by the powers that be. Never Mind (F*@k) the Bullocks, we're the Sex Pistols!
Well, at least Moira has a pretty face and an equally pleasant disposition... and Forbes should talk, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
According to Moira, By the conclusion of the two-day auction, it was clear his bet had paid off. Predictably, its success was the source of much gleeful derision. A member of the "Stuckist" group that has vociferously denounced Hirst, Charles Thomson, remarked earlier this week: "Someday in the future people will be laughing their heads off at all this. Actually, quite a lot of people are right now. One of them is Damien Hirst, on his way to the bank"... Hirst, too, has openly embraced the business aspect of his profession. "If the art's about life, and then people pay money for it and it becomes a commodity and manages to still stay art," he told the writer Gordon Burn, "I find that really exciting(!)"... Critics love to point out that Hirst does not make his own art. Like Andy Warhol, or, for that matter, many Italian Renaissance painters, he has other people actually assemble or paint his works. Indeed, the practice of having a workshop or atelier staffed by others is a phenomenon prevalent across the board in contemporary art, installation and architectural design. But what Hirst exposes is that the old idea of genius has very little to do with the concrete production of the artwork. The "genius" certifies it by bestowing his name, his presence, his brand. (A cynic might say that what Hirst does is not substantially different than what Kate Moss does, conferring her name and image on her new clothing line at the British chain TopShop.)
Bull Market
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/18/damien-hirst-auction-oped-cx_mgw_0918weigel.html
As For Tate Gallery, Here's the Five Year Plan
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tm_5yearspublication.pdf
Mo(n)guls put down millions for masterpieces by Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/billionaires/mm_billies060508&partner=contextual
Damien Hirst ~ Spin Levis
Putting on one of the most successful art shows of all-time last year and the highest grossing contemporary living artists of all-time, artist Damien Hirst has brought forth a certain style to his definition of art. Bold and brash, he teams up with Levi’s on the release of a new denim style. Hardly wearable, the jeans seen here should be considered much more a re-appropriated piece of art than fashion. A multi-colored splatter pattern covers every square inch of a pair of iconic Levi’s denim. The Spin Jeans comprise of only 8 instances worldwide with a suggested retail price of ¥2,625,000 JPY (approximately $27,000 USD).
Hirst, The Grossest Artist ~ Who Grossest the Mostest
http://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/57025.html
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At least some current artists are receiving the recognition they deserve. Some very poignant ideas stirs some very deep pockets...
Damien Hirst defies worth:
The Golden Calf sold within the Sotheby's estimate of $18 million to $20 million, but surpassed Hirst's previous record at auction - the $18.4 million paid for his medicine cabinet Lullaby Spring. In its possible significance, people sometimes ask why Jewry, which is capitalistic, should favor Bolshevism, which is the announced enemy of capital. It is an interesting question. Why should a New York Jewish financier, an officer of the government of the United States, help finance a “Red” publication which even our tolerant government cannot stomach? In addition to the fact that it is only “Gentile capital” that is attacked, the answer is that the Jew who has fallen for the worship of the Golden Calf is anxious to keep in the good graces of the Jewry of the East-the Mongolian Jews-who are rampaging against orderly systems of society. It is quite useful when there is a revolution in Paris to have the 600 houses which you may own spared by the incendiary mobs-as were Rothschild’s houses. Zionism has been one of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern Jew can unite. Indeed, it was the Eastern Jew that compelled the Western Jew to take a favorable stand on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who are receiving the freedom of our cities today in their various aspects as “German” and “British” scientists are Eastern Jews. They have come to a contest with the Jews of America on the question of Money. The Jews of America have smothered some very ugly charges. The Jews of the East, more recently of Germany or England, are not likely to be browbeaten by the moneybags of Jewish New York, for the Eastern type of Jew knows of a situation in which money is the most useless thing in the world-and that is why he is feared and favored by Western Jewry of the Golden Calf.
And We Remember Zion
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/Intl_Jew_full_version/ij51.htm
Damien Hirst Goldmine/How Forbes Views Their Golden Works ~ Sotheby's sale night totals over $126 million dollars. Forbes.com Collector reveals the highlights.
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/billionaires/mm_billies060508&partner=contextual
Other Hirst works that sold at Sotheby's:
- Afterlife, a butterfly painting, went for the equivalent of $2.6 million, almost double Sotheby's estimate.
- Fragments of Paradise, a sculpture of stainless steel, glass and manufactured diamonds, sold for $10 million.
- Heaven Can Wait, a triptych that combines Hirst's spin painting with butterflies, sold for $1.9 million, twice the upper estimate.
- Two butterfly paintings were sold for charity for $3 million total.
Hirst $135M richer from London auction of his works
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/15/hirst-auction.html
Art From The Heart ~ Heart Of Gold
.
Hanging Heart (Red/Gold), 1995-2004, from the series Celebration. High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 106 x 85 x 40 inches / 269,2 x 215,9 x 101,6 cm ~ Installation view, Palazzo Grassi, Venice 2006. Credit: Santi Caleca s.a.s.
Koons's stainless steel Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) soared to $US23.561 million, including commission, obliterating the artist's $US11.8 million record set one day earlier by his Diamond (Blue) sculpture.
Koons, Bacon lead $US316m sale
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/16/2092558.htm
All That Sparkles Is Not Gold ~ Blue Diamond For a Blue World
Jeff Koons' sculpture, "Diamond (Blue)," a cut above, seven foot wide fake diamond made of stainless steel, sold for only $11.8 mil at Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
The Art Market Blues
http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2007/11/the_art_market_blues.html
.
I went on a very long walk today... I came across the blue diamond by Jeff Koons. It's going to be auctioned off by Christies... I took some photos of it.
The Heart of New York
http://jeneratorrant.blogspot.com/2007/10/jeff-koons-blue-diamond.html
Diamonds for Damien ~ The Original Skull titled "For the Love of God"
A jewel-encrusted platinum skull, seen in this image made available in Amterdam, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008, and titled "For the Love of God," created by British artist Damien Hirst, will be on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands for six weeks starting Nov. 1, spokeswoman Elles Kamphuis said on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. The piece is decorated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pear-shaped pink diamond in the forehead. Kamphuis says the piece was cast from a skull Hirst purchased from a London dealer of a man who died in the 18th century. The teeth are real. (AP Photo/ Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Private Collection courtesy Murderme Ltd and Jay Jopling/White Cube, London)
ABC-Dutch national museum to exhibit Damien Hirst's jewel-encrusted platinum skull piece
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5656915
Diamonds For All ~ "For The Laugh Of God"
.
"We must buy the diamond skull for Britain" - this proclamation was made to his countrymen by Jonathan Jones, a journalist of the Guardian to keep the"most amazing artefacts ever made in this country". Jones thus encourages the British to purchase this "work of art", made by"the treasure of Great Britain" Damien Hirst, which is currently on themarket for 50 million pounds. Like the cheap Polish labour well known to you, Polish artist Peter Fusswishes to relieve the British nation from such a great expense."For the laugh of God" by Peter Fuss will be available in the Polish car on ART CAR BOOT FAIR at a competitive price of 1000 pounds. To make his work, Peter Fuss used about 9870 pieces of glass polished andcut to look like diamonds, worth 250 pounds and spent 18 hours to completethe piece. Income from sale of Fuss's skull and its accompanying graphics issupposed to amount to 2000 pounds - a reasonable facsimile? Plagiarism truly is the sincerest form of flattery. Now everyone can enjoy a crystal skull... ha-hah!
Peter Fuss For the Laugh of God
http://peterfuss.com/forthelaughofgod/
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6_1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
In The Realm of Cleopatra ~ Koon Suit Cicciolina
Italian porn star CICCIOLINA, the former muse & wife of Pop Artist and onetime Wall Street commodities broker JEFF KOONS is currently suing her ex-husband for $2.3 million, claiming the artist hasn't paid child support for their son Ludwig, in over nine years. Cicciolina, a former member of Italy’s parliament whose porno nickname loosely means the “fleshy one" will perhaps be best remembered as the subject of one of Koons' most explicit series of sculptural work depicting the then-married couple in the act. One of the world's wealthiest artists, Koons sold his massive stainless-steel “Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" for $23.6 million recently at Sotheby’s …
.
NEWS///POP LIFE///JEFF KOONS x CICCIOLINA… the art of love
http://www.supertouchart.com/2008/04/08/newspop-lifejeff-koons-x-cicciolina/
Damien Hirst Money for Old Rope by Mark D.
Interesting comment on Sotheby's Hirst sale. Do I detect a hint of jealousy?
By the conclusion of the two-day auction, it was clear his bet had paid off. Predictably, its success was the source of much gleeful derision. A member of the "Stuckist" group that has vociferously denounced Hirst, Charles Thomson, remarked earlier this week: "Someday in the future people will be laughing their heads off at all this. Actually, quite a lot of people are right now. One of them is Damien Hirst, on his way to the bank."
Welcome to Stuckism
http://www.stuckism.com/
The Days of Billy Childish
http://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/38485.html
Maybe Where the Feud Started and Some Very Interesting Commentaries
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2005/07/no_stuckists_fo.html
How The World Sees It... ~ A Story by Moira G. Weigel 09.18.08
Maybe the lesson that lessens The Golden Calf is that Art, like Gold, keeps its value? At least art has tangible worth as original human expression. Money propped up on debt is worthless as the paper it's printed on. That too can be recycled. And numbers on a stock market computer equally wrong when they can be subjectively changed and tampered with by the powers that be. Never Mind (F*@k) the Bullocks, we're the Sex Pistols!
Well, at least Moira has a pretty face and an equally pleasant disposition... and Forbes should talk, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
According to Moira, By the conclusion of the two-day auction, it was clear his bet had paid off. Predictably, its success was the source of much gleeful derision. A member of the "Stuckist" group that has vociferously denounced Hirst, Charles Thomson, remarked earlier this week: "Someday in the future people will be laughing their heads off at all this. Actually, quite a lot of people are right now. One of them is Damien Hirst, on his way to the bank"... Hirst, too, has openly embraced the business aspect of his profession. "If the art's about life, and then people pay money for it and it becomes a commodity and manages to still stay art," he told the writer Gordon Burn, "I find that really exciting(!)"... Critics love to point out that Hirst does not make his own art. Like Andy Warhol, or, for that matter, many Italian Renaissance painters, he has other people actually assemble or paint his works. Indeed, the practice of having a workshop or atelier staffed by others is a phenomenon prevalent across the board in contemporary art, installation and architectural design. But what Hirst exposes is that the old idea of genius has very little to do with the concrete production of the artwork. The "genius" certifies it by bestowing his name, his presence, his brand. (A cynic might say that what Hirst does is not substantially different than what Kate Moss does, conferring her name and image on her new clothing line at the British chain TopShop.)
Bull Market
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/18/damien-hirst-auction-oped-cx_mgw_0918weigel.html
As For Tate Gallery, Here's the Five Year Plan
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tm_5yearspublication.pdf
Mo(n)guls put down millions for masterpieces by Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/billionaires/mm_billies060508&partner=contextual
Damien Hirst ~ Spin Levis
Putting on one of the most successful art shows of all-time last year and the highest grossing contemporary living artists of all-time, artist Damien Hirst has brought forth a certain style to his definition of art. Bold and brash, he teams up with Levi’s on the release of a new denim style. Hardly wearable, the jeans seen here should be considered much more a re-appropriated piece of art than fashion. A multi-colored splatter pattern covers every square inch of a pair of iconic Levi’s denim. The Spin Jeans comprise of only 8 instances worldwide with a suggested retail price of ¥2,625,000 JPY (approximately $27,000 USD).
Hirst, The Grossest Artist ~ Who Grossest the Mostest
http://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/57025.html
.