{"id":8852,"date":"2017-12-13T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2017-12-10T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:28:49","slug":"damien-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/13\/damien-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Freed"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The False Narrative of Damien Hirst\u2019s Rise and Fall<\/h1>\n

By Felix Salmon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Photograph by Francesco Guidicini \/ The Sunday Times \/ News Syndication \/ Redux<\/em><\/p>\n

The artist Damien Hirst is fundamentally a maker of luxury goods, and that is why he confounds the expectations of art-world cynics and romantics alike.<\/p>\n

The rise and fall of Damien Hirst<\/a> is an oft-told tale of hubris and nemesis. An art-world superstar in the nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, Hirst made white-hot works\u2014the most infamous of which involved animals immersed in formaldehyde\u2014whose prices only ever went up. He got rich, his galleries got rich, his collectors got rich, everybody was happy. But, then, in 2008, he got a bit too cocky when he auctioned off two hundred million dollars\u2019 worth of art, fresh from his studio, at Sotheby\u2019s, bypassing dealers entirely. That auction marked the end of Hirst as an art-market darling: his auction volumes and prices dropped, and bitter collectors who had spent millions on his art were left with work worth much less than what they had paid for it.<\/p>\n

These days, though, those collectors don\u2019t seem to be so bitter after all. Hirst says that sales from his latest show, in Venice, reached a jaw-dropping three hundred and thirty million dollars<\/a> as of early November. Even accounting for inflation, that\u2019s substantially more than the two hundred million dollars he racked up at the Sotheby\u2019s auction in 2008. Maybe that day didn\u2019t mark the top of the Hirst market<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n

So why do many knowledgeable observers\u2014from Sarah Thornton<\/a> in The Economist<\/em><\/a>, in 2012, to Robin Pogrebin in the\u00a0<\/a>Times<\/em><\/a>, this past February\u2014think that Hirst became a persona non grata in the art world, stripped of his relevance and power?<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New Yorker The False Narrative of Damien Hirst\u2019s Rise and Fall By Felix Salmon Photograph by Francesco Guidicini \/ The Sunday Times \/ News Syndication \/ Redux The artist Damien Hirst is fundamentally a maker of luxury goods, and that is why he confounds the expectations of art-world cynics and romantics alike. The […]<\/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-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","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=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}