new things are happening
I'm trying to raise a little bit of cash for a new project that I'm starting.
(and if you didn't arrive here through my site, mosey on over and look at my work- fealsreal.com)
"September 15, 2008, will go down in the annals of history. It was the day on which Damien Hirst was able to sell works at Sotheby's London, specially produced for the auction, for a total of 111 million British pounds, but also the day on which one of the key players in New York financial world, the Lehman Brothers Bank, had to declare bankruptcy.
The correlation makes clear how much art and finance have transposed themselves from the real world into an artificial sphere without rules and commitments, largely determined by greed. And there is a punch line: the works that Damien Hirst produced for the London auction – in particular the dissected bodies of animals in glass boxes, and the butterflies affixed to rose-colored discs – have to be traced back directly to Paul Thek. One can presume that Thek would have declined such a belated honor."
- from "Paul Thek: Artist's Artist"
very interesting
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