Slog - Comments on Money Sells http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells 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.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 16 May 2007 16:59:55 -0800 Thu, 17 May 2007 08:33:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718411 Arts Wed, 16 May 2007 18:51:12 -0800 Comment by Joseph 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.

]]> Joseph http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718471 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718471 Arts Wed, 16 May 2007 21:41:03 -0800 Comment by A Non Imus Jeez. Just when I thought the hipsters were done fellating Gursky....

]]> A Non Imus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718523 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718523 Arts Wed, 16 May 2007 23:31:54 -0800 Comment by The CHZA I have a dollar store here, can I go and take two pictures of it and have it be art too?

]]> The CHZA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718829 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718829 Arts Thu, 17 May 2007 07:05:49 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell I haven't seen the diamond skull either, but I imagine it looking exactly like Paris Hilton.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/money_sells#c718900 Arts Thu, 17 May 2007 08:33:58 -0800