DAMIEN
HIRST SOTHEBY'S AUCTION 2008
See
also A Dead Shark Isn't Art
SHARK
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE COMPETITION
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Left: Eddie's shark in Stuckism International Gallery 2003 only
£1,000,000.
Right: Damien's shark in Sotheby's 2008 only £9,500,000 (photo
International
Herald Tribune).
Moira
G. Weigel comments on Hirst and the Stuckists on forbes.com
18.9.08
"The
rather magnificent Stuckist movement of figurative artists has a simple
explanation: the art establishment in London has been dominated for
too long by an in-group which favours only the conceptual art of Hirst
and his colleagues." - Nick Cohen, Evening
Standard 17.9.08
Damien Hirst: Money for Old Rope
by Mark D
STUCKIST
QUOTES
by Charles Thomson, Co-founder of the Stuckists
"the
art world has gone stark raving bonkers."
The
Times 16.9.08. Also in Virgin
Media, Evening
Echo (Ireland), The
Sunday Business Post (Ireland), Ireland
online, Irish
Examiner
"mad
to buy Hirst's work at such prices."
AFP
16.9.08. Also in The
West Australian, Brisbane
Times, The
Australian, Mercury
(Tasmania), The
Canberra Times, The
Economic Times (India), Arab
Eastern
"not
art but a 'designer label'"
Forbes
17.9.08.
Also in
"It
won't last forever."
Reuters
16.9.08.
Also in Yahoo
News, The
US Daily, Tiscali
news, MSNBC,
Calgary
Herald, Ottawa
Citizen, The
Windsor Star
"Collectors
ahead of the game, such as Charles Saatchi and Helly Nahmad - both major
fans in the past - have already offloaded their Hirsts."
Read
the full statement and Mark Vallen's "An Art World Mesmerized by
Bling " on Art
for a Change 18.9.08
"Sometime
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."
Associated
Press 16.9.08. Also in CNN,
NPR,
Los
Angeles Times, International
Herald Tribune, Washington
Post, Forbes,
Crain's
New York Business,
The Huffington Post, ABC
7 (Washington), Times
Union (New York), News
Day (New York),
The Herald (South Carolina),
Newsvine (Seattle), The
Seattle Times, Contra
Costa Times, Austin-American
Statesman, AOL,
Philadelphia
Enquirer, The
News & Observer (North Carolina), WRAL
(North Carolina), Star
Tribune (Minneapolis), Bay
News 9 (Florida), Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, The
Examiner, Journal
Gazette (Indiana), Gulf
Live (Alabama), Times
Daily (Alabama), NJ
(New Jersey), News
8 (Virginia), Rocky
Mount Telegram, Tucson
Citizen, CBS
6, CBS
8 (San Diego), Nola
(New Orleans),
Mlive (Michigan), Cox
(San Diego),
Mercury (San Jose), In
York (Pennsylvania), Sun
News (Cleveland), The
Oxford Press (Ohio), WTOP,
The Record (Ontario), CFRB
(Toronto), Dose
(Canada), CBC
(Canada),
Cape Times (South Africa), Sydney
Morning Herald, Newser,
International
Business Times, Conde
Nast Portfolio, Salon.com
"some
people have more money than sense ... Hirst repeats ideas that are already
in common currency, but merely makes them a larger size, gives them
a pretentious title and puts them in an inappropriate context of art."
...
"If the same items were in a gift shop at the seaside, nobody would
bother looking twice at them."
...
"It shows the triumph of marketing over substance,
and operates on the same level as a craze in the school playground for
Teletubbies or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Sky
News 16.9.08
Quotes
above from Charles Thomson, Stuckist co-founder
Search
results for these quotes on google.
Yorkshire
Post and Western
Daily Press - Stuckist shark 17.9.08
The
First Post on Hirst's next plan and stark raving bonkers 17.9.08
BLOGS
Coxsoft
questions the value of the Stuckist shark 16.9.08.
Art
Fag City doesn’t ask the Stuckists for a comment on Russia’s Central
Museum of Armed Forces 17.9.08
3am
Buzzwords shark attack 18.9.08
SHARK
FOR ONLY £1,000,000!
SAVE £8,500,000 ON THE DAMIEN HIRST
PARODY!
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A
shark displayed two years before Damien Hirst's first shark is on
sale for the unmissable bargain price of only £1,000,000, a considerable
saving on the £9,500,000 sale price of Hirst's latest version
The Kingdom sold at Sotheby's. |
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Eddie
Saunders displayed the shark in his former JD electrical shop,
Shoreditch, from 1989 - two years before Hirst. In 2003, it was
put on display in the Stuckism International Gallery, and is titled
A Dead Shark Isn't Art.
Why
settle for expensive imitations when you can get the original
for less!
More information on the shark here.
Contact Stuckism for further details. Confidentiality
assured.
Offer valid till 31.9.08. Terms and conditions
apply.
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Will
Tim Marlow, director of exhibitions at White Cube, be the 2008
Art Clown of the Year? This is what he had to say about
Damien Hirst's spot paintings: "They're incredibly original
and counterbalance the decline of originality in the history
of painting. It's taking something that looks machine produced
but is actually painted by hand. What we see is not what we
see." Independent
on Sunday 14.9.08
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SHARK
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE COMPETION (SEE
ABOVE)
ANSWERS
* There is only one shark in the left hand picture.
* Eddie owns the left hand one. A fucking idiot owns the right
hand one.
*There's no bloody difference..
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