Arts Money Sells
posted by on May 16 at 16:59 PM
Damien Hirst, according to Bloomberg, may rise into the stratospheric auction-record ranks next month when his For the Love of God—a skull made of platinum and covered in 1,106.18 carats of diamonds—goes on sale for $99 million. (Clever cheater, dealing in jewels to get up there.)
White Cube isn’t handing out any images (it will be damn disappointing if the thing doesn’t exist), so instead I leave you with 99 cent II (2001), the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction ($3.3 million in February at Sotheby’s in London).
It’s German artist Andreas Gursky’s giant diptych of a dollar store.
That picture needs to be about fifty times larger to get the impact.
Personally, I hope a meteor strikes the auction room, and kills Hirst, all of the prospective buyers, and the auction staff in a big flaming ball, but I'm a mean person.
Gursky famus fotograhfer in Germany. I know of him, I live Stuttgart. If you go dollar store heer hint for being inviromentallie conshious. Insted of use bag, bring blankit. Lay blankit on countar aftar pay, put groshery on blankit, tie kornars togethar. Hang from necke, carry groshery on back juss like backpacke. It save resouses and have fashionabel cape look too.
Jeez. Just when I thought the hipsters were done fellating Gursky....
I have a dollar store here, can I go and take two pictures of it and have it be art too?
I haven't seen the diamond skull either, but I imagine it looking exactly like Paris Hilton.
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