Art Wank

The worst of Hirst: Film Star

Damien Hirst is to star as a fictional curator in a film about the YBAs. Oh dear: http://artcollc.blogspot.com/2010/04/damien-hirst-curates-boogie-woogie.html

Rappers on Art #3: Jay-Z’s Hirst Reference

AW: Clearly not an occult symbol, as some bloggers would have us believe, Jay-Z’s replica of Damien Hirst’s ‘For the Love of God’ diamond-encrusted skull in his new music video, ‘On to the Next One’, carries symbolism of a rather different sort. Yes, it has the same symbolic meaning as his cars, jewels, wad, and girls: he is a very rich rapper with a very small penis.

Incidentally, Jay-Z has become a collector of Damien Hirst. But at least he is just buying art rather than singing about it.

Damien Hirst: Another bloody show

Damien Hirst: ‘These paintings are about my mortality, confronting death, maybe trying to mock it, whereas many of my previous works are about my immortality. I definitely believed I was going to live forever for a while back there.’

Damien Hirst: Dark Trees, Galleria Hilario Galguera, opening 16 January 2010
http://www.galeriahilariogalguera.com/newdata/english.html

AW: You better keep churning them out then Damo. Seriously, three shows in the last four months.

After pastiching Frances Bacon he seems to be taking on Gillian Carnegie (http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2005/gilliancarnegie.htm).