is clear that Hirst and Sotheby's something nahimichili. auction could fail.
all write that he had collected more than $ 200 million, well above the estimate. In fact, if you subtract the "buyer's premium" (buyer's premium), it turns out that the real result of the auction estimate was well within the scope. is written in the blog Culture Grrrl:
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegr...allet_lon.html
There is also a quotation from the Wall Street Journal, which stated that the estimate on a lot of things have been set at 30%below market price: in order to then say that the price is 4-5 times higher than the estimate turned out.
to uriart:
here in Artnet Magazine appeared ridiculous "herstonenavistnicheskaya" article: type, wrote the young artist who wants to become famous by killing of Damien Hirst.
My name Ants Millikan. I am a British artist. I went to college at Goldsmith's, worked Gallery Serpentine, helped Banksy caparison city walls. A lot of thought on how to create art that would have attracted attention. Now it is very difficult in the world diamond sculls, inflatable dogs, sex and money people can no longer be surprised. But something that I still thought: the perfect work of art, which combines the process, message and public relations, that is, everything I was taught in art college. I decided to kill Damien Hirst.
If I kill Hearst, it will create the most valuable piece of art in the world, more valuable than even a shark, cows and golden calves, which he sells for Hurst astronomical sums. The artwork will be the body of Damien Hirst, in all its splendor displayed in the window. I think it's best to poison him ... oh, something I am anticipating.
In fact, just kill Hearst will uninteresting. I, Ants Millikan, going to capture everything that made Damien Hirst's most sought-after artist in the world: the scandalous reputation, the ability to shock, sexual attractiveness and money. I do not just make friends with Russia's oil tycoons, such as Abramovich and Pinchuk, spending his millions on Herstovy canned. I have already met the boys, who own hands have created this whole fraternity. Their aim - to destabilize all the existing worlds (and the art world included). They are, incidentally, has given me poison. They - KGBshniki.
KGBshniki by nature secretive personality. They want to put the corpse Hirst in formaldehyde in a secluded spot not far from Red Square. "And there Pinchuk with Abramovich would bet!" - My friend joked agent (well, at least, I thought he was joking). Sometimes I dream that Damien himself will help me. "I can not help you create a great work of art, Ants!" - He said to me in my dreams. "I have so many pills in my medicine cabinet that do not scare me, even your poison!". On the other hand, Damien can simply say: "Surprise me, Ants. After all, he himself is so fond of surprising.
Now, when I opened their plans to kill Damien Hirst and turn his body into a work of art, I will overwhelm suggestions: my work wants to sell in his gallery, Larry Gagosian, I would invite to dine at Lever House tycoon Abi Rosen, my PR expert will be Nadine Johnson, a symposium on my person, organizes Tate, a public coronation me arrange curator Francesco Bonami. But I, generally speaking, will the murderer, and so I have to hide - be anonymous like Banksy. The body Hirst also disappear - in the den of a Russian billionaire. Ten or twenty years of art-world degraded so much that you can send Hirst tour. Соблазненные налоговыми льготами, работу захотят приобрести многие крупные музеи, в том числе Лувр и Метрополитен.
I made a lot more shocking ideas, and you still hear me, Ants Milliken, the greatest artist in the universe overcomes the ability to shock even the Hearst! It's psychedelic!
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/fea...inch8-6-08.asp