{"id":329,"date":"2007-06-13T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/06\/13\/damien-hirst90-millionman\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:30:45","slug":"damien-hirst90-millionman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/06\/13\/damien-hirst90-millionman\/","title":{"rendered":"~DAMIEN HIRST\/$100 million\/man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Damien
\nDAMIEN HIRST diamond encrusted skull – ‘For the Love of God’,
\nimage: courtesy White Cube, London<\/p>\n

DAMIEN HIRST, . . . For the Love of Money or<\/em> (Bad) Art Marketing 101.<\/p>\n

Damien Hirst & White Cube have put forth an “extraordinary diamond skull,
\n‘For the Love of God’, a life-size cast of a human skull in platinum, covered entirely
\nby 8,601 VVS to flawless pave-set diamonds. They want $100,000,000, YES!! that’s
\n100 million $$ US !!, for it. the story goes something like, its got $30 million worth of diamonds, and therefore the artist and the dealer get to split the remaining 70 million, left over. As of this posting – they haven’t found a taker, yet.
\n(well, at least the new owner doesn’t have to hire a scuba diver to jump in and clean it, once a week, which Damien’s ‘aquarium\/fish tank’ pieces require.)<\/p>\n

They have also made available, for the lesser pocket-booked, a series of silkscreens depicting the skull, cutely titled: ‘For the Love of God, Laugh’ !
\nThese silkscreens are in an edition of 250, and they are sprinkled with real diamond dust !! These prints are going for: 10,000 British pounds+VAT<\/p>\n

you can see pictures of the skull & prints on the White Cube, LONDON website:
\nLAUNCH VIEWING ROOM<\/a>
\nand for the data, check here:
\nVIEWING ROOM\/data:<\/a> <\/p>\n

bad enough as that is, a young and slightly eccentric, or is it obsessive, collector,
\ndown in Tribeca – is telling anyone who will listen, the unsubstantiated claim that: ” . . Damien Hirst is the world’s richest living artist, having amassed a personal fortune that clocks in at over: 250 million pounds (US$500 million)”.<\/p>\n

to celebrate this top tier OCEANS 11 heist of the artworld:
\nhere’s some never-before-published artlovers photos, from 2005:
\nDAMIEN HIRST opens, ‘THE ELUSIVE TRUTH’ at GAGOSIAN GALLERY, CHELSEA, NYC. (24th STREET), MARCH 11, 2005
\nThe show ran from March 11 – May 21, 2005
\nPhotos: Nancy Smith <\/p>\n

\"damien
\nDAMIEN HIRST opens ‘THE ELUSIVE TRUTH’, GAGOSIAN GALLERY, 24th STREET, NYC.<\/p>\n

\"damien
\nDAMIEN HIRST greets some fans at the opening.<\/p>\n

\"damien
\nSTEVE BUSCEMI makes the DAMIEN HIRST opening.<\/p>\n

\"damien
\nMAURIZIO CATTELAN also dropped by the DAMIEN HIRST opening.<\/p>\n

\"Damien
\none of the paintings in the show. DAMIEN HIRST, ‘ Minerals’, 2000-2003,
\noil and acrylic on canvas, 72 x 89 ins.<\/p>\n

\"Damien
\nlarge painting, DAMIEN HIRST, in ‘THE ELUSIVE TRUTH’, GAGOSIAN GALLERY,
\n24th STREET, NYC, MARCH 11, 2005<\/p>\n

see more: DAMIEN HIRST – ‘THE ELUSIVE TRUTH’ (2005), GAGOSIAN GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAMIEN HIRST diamond encrusted skull – ‘For the Love of God’, image: courtesy White Cube, London DAMIEN HIRST, . . . For the Love of Money or (Bad) Art Marketing 101. Damien Hirst & White Cube have put forth an “extraordinary diamond skull, ‘For the Love of God’, a life-size cast of a human skull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}