{"id":3086,"date":"2011-08-04T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/the-complete-spot-paintings\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:59:56","slug":"the-complete-spot-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/04\/the-complete-spot-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Spot Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/arts\/design\/the-mets-next-blockbuster-is-expected-to-stay-for-10-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>A HIRST EXTRAVAGANZA<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/10122_173084756856_141011866856_3310460_921497_n.jpeg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love his work or hate it, even art-world cynics have to admit that when it comes to masterly marketing few artists can beat the British bad boy Damien Hirst. When he surprised everyone in 2008 by holding a two-day auction at Sotheby\u2019s in London that included everything from dead animals submerged in tanks of formaldehyde to his signature medicine cabinets and swirl paintings, about 21,000 people flocked in to see what looked like an elegant retrospective. And despite the reeling of the financial markets back then, collectors and speculators willingly invested in the Hirst brand. The auctions \u2014 of 223 examples of Mr. Hirst\u2019s art \u2014 totaled $200.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his sales pitch he announced that he would no longer be making spin or butterfly paintings, and that his production of dead animals and spot paintings would be drastically reduced. Not exactly. Reminded of that statement in a recent telephone interview, he chuckled and said: \u201cI keep trying to end them. But then I get these crazy ideas, and I can\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a>\u00a0around the world \u2014 11 in all \u2014 will hold its own version of \u201cDamien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011.\u201d The show will open on the same, not yet determined day in every city \u2014 New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong \u2014 and run from mid-January through February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/arts\/design\/the-mets-next-blockbuster-is-expected-to-stay-for-10-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at the NY Times<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times A HIRST EXTRAVAGANZA Love his work or hate it, even art-world cynics have to admit that when it comes to masterly marketing few artists can beat the British bad boy Damien Hirst. When he surprised everyone in 2008 by holding a two-day auction at Sotheby\u2019s in London that included everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}