Remember in 2007 when Damien Hirst took that skull and encrusted it with a bajillion diamonds, and then put it up for sale for $100,000,000? And then remember how nobody bought it, and then at the last second a “mystery” buyer came out of nowhere and salvaged the value of his entire oeuvre bought it? […]
12
Jan
Another brilliant way to get rich while clowning the art world
31
Mar
"Boogie Woogie" Trailer
Boogie Woogie, a new film from writer and producer Danny Moynihan — an integral part of the UK’s much-hyped Young British Artists (YBA) movement — could be terrific, as it satirizes and skewers the very art world from which Moynihan came from. Although many great things have sprung from the soil of the global contemporary […]
13
Nov
World's former most (over)paid artist makes an LA stop
Beverly Hills has a great weekend planned for those venturing out into the gallery world. Love him or hate him, the Gagosian Gallery will be featuring new works from Jeff Koons this Saturday November 14th. Reading the rich descriptions, hyper analytical, pseudo art theory syntaxes applied to Koons’ new works provided by the Gagosian Gallery […]
