Summary
TO THE White Cube to see the work that has produced the most excited chatter in artistic London for years: Damien Hirst's grinning skull covered with a mere 8,601 diamonds.
The gallery staff did their best to make visitors feel like peasants in the presence of a sacred relic. They allowed them in to the skull's presence only in small groups, and gave them just a few minutes to admire Hirst's efforts perhaps because a longer inspection might have prompted hard questions about artistic merit.See the full content of this document
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The Pounds 50m Skull Is a Symbol of Our Times
The critics have been no less reverential.
The skull shows that "an artist with the tremendous pathos ofDamien Hirst cann...See the full content of this document
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