« Germany fact of the day | Main | Sentences of...something or other »
Meta Performance Art
I'm not a huge fan of performance art but I love this piece of meta performance art. Damien Hirst (whose work features chopped up animals and maggots and flies) recently unveiled the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever, a skull encrusted with millions of dollars worth of diamonds. In response, "Laura" created a similar skull using Swarovski crystals and in the middle of the night she dumped it outside the gallery along with a pile of trash. Priceless.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on July 15, 2007 at 07:05 AM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
LOL, nicely-done! ;-)
Posted by: Chris Meisenzahl at Jul 15, 2007 8:43:08 AM
Unless there's some irony here, the "maggots and flies" link doesn't take you where you mean it to.
Posted by: Matt at Jul 15, 2007 9:53:39 AM
Link fixed. No irony intended! Do take a look, it's a classic.
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Jul 15, 2007 11:13:16 AM
I wonder whether that is a skull of a woman who is dying to get married.
Posted by: Yan Li at Jul 15, 2007 12:54:38 PM
Hurstskull1 link also broken.
Posted by: AaAaa at Jul 15, 2007 2:17:56 PM
Brilliant. Way to go "Laura!"
Posted by: tf at Jul 15, 2007 6:52:30 PM
See also the "Black Sheep" affair:
http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrime/pages/hirst.html
Posted by: Jack at Jul 15, 2007 7:10:03 PM
The future is hard to predict, and I'm no art historian, but it's hard for me to imagine Hirst stuff being prized 100 years from now. Then again, Monets might be worthless then too, take a look at what happened to Renaissance full-length portraits in the past 100 years.
I'm happy to view high-priced art as a silly status signaling game for ultra rich people, ... of course if I were rich perhaps it'd be a different story.
Posted by: Paul N at Jul 15, 2007 11:37:08 PM
I actually thought the cows looked pretty cool. That skull isn't badly done either... other than being horribly unnecessary. I guess what's really horrifying about it is that it shows just how popular this guy is. THAT as a $99 million work of art by a living artist? Ew.
Posted by: gorgo at Jul 16, 2007 7:43:50 PM
What a master of self publicity.
Posted by: Bob Meade at Jul 19, 2007 7:34:17 AM
Hi Allow me to offer my heartiest wishes. I would like to know more about this I'm an chinese writer who love to read international literature.feel free to contact by sdggc and bjseek-无缝管|无缝钢管|数据恢复|RAID数据恢复
Posted by: 无缝钢管 at Dec 13, 2007 3:06:00 AM
I come from asia, injoy 室內設計,work in a 搬家公司,other enjoy isecosway和科士威,good see U。
Thanks.
Posted by: jack at Jan 6, 2008 9:41:12 PM
Hola quisiera saber que es lo que hace de esa instalación una metaperformance??
Posted by: Marlene Molina at May 5, 2009 3:29:53 AM
aion gold
aion money
cheap aion gold
cheap aion money
buy aion gold
Mabinogi online gold
Mabinogi gold
buy Mabinogi gold
cheap Mabinogi gold
Mabinogi money
2moons dil
2moons gold
buy 2moons dil
2moons dil
cheap 2moons dil
flyff gold
flyff penya
flyff money
buy flyff penya
cheap flyff penya
cheap flyff gold
Dofus kamas
buy Dofus kamas
cheap kamas
Dofus kama
Dofus gold
Dofus money
Knight online gold
Knight Gold
Knight Noah
Knight online Noah
Posted by: aion at Jul 13, 2009 10:12:48 PM
花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車公司,花蓮租車,花蓮一日遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮旅遊,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,租車,賞鯨,花蓮旅遊,花蓮泛舟,花蓮賞鯨,泛舟,溯溪,花蓮租車,花東旅遊,花蓮租車,花東旅遊,花蓮租車,租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊租車,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮美食,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮租車,花蓮租車,花蓮租車公司,花蓮賞鯨,花蓮租車,花蓮旅遊,花蓮旅遊地圖,花東旅遊,花蓮租車
Posted by: 花蓮租車資訊 at Aug 4, 2009 3:27:45 AM
