The First Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like the Boris Johnson's intervention in the battle to save the Colony Room Club, the Soho drinking hole favoured by Damien Hirst (pictured) and the YBAs (Young British…
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
"The Young British Artists (YBAs) who drove the contemporary boom were a bad thing for British art, the new Turner Prize winner said last night." From the podium, artist Mark Leckey criticized the artistic discourse: "'I kind of hate the relationship the press in Britain has towards art,' he said. 'I hate the way it's all Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and Banksy.'"...
AdScam/The Horror! (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
One of the big news items in the London dailies last week that proves the economy is really tanking, was the fact that Uber-Art-Fucktard, Damien Hirst was laying off some of his army of "apprentices" engaged in the production of...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... Not another "war on terror" movie. The director's Body of Lies gets dire reviews across the board. Damien Hirst The artist made £111m in a two-day auction in London in September, but this month a painting failed to sell at a New York auction and the artist is shedding staff. Hip-hop Dizzee Rascal said that hip-hop helped Barack Obama win the presidency. So why is Boris Johnson giving...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Damien Hirst’s two-day auction of spanking new works at Sotheby’s in September signalled the end of an era. Our idea of what is desirable has changed dramatically since. ‘The definition of luxury today is something that can’t be made in one day,’ Sir David Tang said at the Luxury Briefing Conference in London in November. ‘Look at all the wonderful items of quality that we buy in auction...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... Another Appleyard on the Turner Prize . I suppose what I'd like to know is what exactly it is I am suppose to enjoy in works by the likes of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. Once upon a time, I sold art. I still buy it. But most of what I see today that claims to be cutting edge strikes me as either tired or strained or both.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Top Story »Text Size:Friday, December 5, 2008A Santa wish-list for the arty 1/4 DAMIEN HIRST: stick him in Formaldehyde!Looking for an imaginary cultural Christmas gift for the art lover in your life? Better look further than Kevin Gildea's , um, festive suggestions• Snuggle up for the night with The Samuel Beckett Duvet Set - beautiful prints of his knife-sharp face on the bleached hard...
Jossip (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... sucked this year because it didn't get its Citibank sponsoring. If you want to know the truth, Damien Hirst was right when he said that the art scene is totally over-saturated with money (and douchebags), and that if people are forced to spend less on art, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Unless, of course, you're Damien Hirst. Permalink | post a comment...
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Mark Leckey, the Turner Prize winner, has attacked the Young British Artists (YBAs) who created the boom in British art. Leckey has criticised YBAs for it’s shock factor and interpretation of art. He said: “I kind of hate the relationship the press in Britain has towards art. I hate the way it’s all Damien Hirst [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... property industry, and an art-market opportunist who has pickled the Three Bears as a "hommage" to Damien Hirst. It's all hilariously pointed political stuff in a slightly shambolic theatrical framework, ending triumphantly with the mass public purchase of all the empty luxury flats along the Clyde waterfront, where the Babes live happily ever after. And if, by this time next year,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... album did "very well" in Japan in 1987. So I'm praying your dude is Lucian Freud, Jeff Koons, or Damien Hirst. But no matter. Forcing him see you more often or stopping him from becoming engaged to "someone more special" is impossible. You can't control what he does any more than Frieda Kahlo could control her eyebrow tweezers. Therefore you may do anything you like with the old codger...
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
In past years, Britain’s Turner Prize has gone to artists such as Chris Ofili, who put elephant dung on canvas, and Damien Hirst, who immersed the halves of a cow and calf in formaldehyde. For some reason, this year, critics are particularly enraged over the winner, Mark Leckey, who won for a video titled “Industrial Light and Magic.” The exhibition mixes film, performance and sculpture...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey leaves critics unimpressed Conceptual artist Mark Lecky, who last night picked up the £25,000 Turner Prize, celebrated his victory by taking a swipe at the type of "shock art" purveyed by his contemporaries. "It's all about Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Banksy," he lamented. "[The press] expect shock and spectacle. There is more to art than that."However,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... economic climate" for the poor results. Panic among dealers reached fever pitch when not even Damien Hirst's Midas touch could not prevent his painting of four skulls, tipped to fetch $3m in New York, from failing to attract a buyer. Is the art market crashing? The Art Newspaper reported that auction houses were reducing guarantees and lowering reserve prices in the aftermath of weak...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Leckey, 44, from London, created videos and sculptures inspired by Felix the Cat and Jeff Koons' famous metal rabbit sculpture. His Cinema-in-the-Round features a lecture by Leckey on his love of animation while an episode of The Simpsons plays. The £25,000 prizehas traditionally been won by controversial work. Previous winners include Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst and transvestite...
