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[mahlerchick]

    In art news, a demon from my hated Art Now class has come back to haunt me in the form of disgustingly excessive success.

Damien Hirst, a contemporary British artist who I knew thanks to his ground-breaking piece featuring a shark floating in formaldehyde, has just broken another record.  Hirst has just "sold a platinum cast of a human skull

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[kencf0618]

Why 8,601 diamonds? (Why 72 doe-eyed houri, for that matter?) Nothing succeeds like wretched excess, but this is ridulous.

[mahlerchick]

Don't have to tell me that! My favourite part of the article is at the end when Glopnik concludes that if the piece goes on to become "Great Art," and the $100 mil turns out to have been worth it, then the piece itself would have failed in ridiculing over-the-top materialism.