
£50m, jewel encrusted, celebration against death...
Watch Damien Hirst speak to the BBC about creating, and launching, the world's most expensive art
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6712015.stm
If ever there was a work of art that deserved a national debate on whether the world's most 'expensive' artist - Damien Hirst - is a skilled artist or great self publicist, the 2007 world famous diamond-encrusted skull - called For the Love of God - jewelled with 8,601 diamonds, has to be it.
If ever there was a work of art that deserved a national debate on whether the world's most 'expensive' artist - Damien Hirst - is a skilled artist or great self publicist, the 2007 world famous diamond-encrusted skull - called For the Love of God - jewelled with 8,601 diamonds, has to be it.
1 comment:
Damien Hirst is art world's most successful strutting ego - but not an artist surely? Andy Warhol did it all better years ago anyway!
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