Comments on: @abstanfield biTweekly http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/11/abstanfield-bitweekly.html for the Business of Being an Artist Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Philip Koch http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/11/abstanfield-bitweekly.html/comment-page-1#comment-15108 Philip Koch Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:45:33 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/?p=4578#comment-15108 The following from the "20 Most Powerless People in the Art World" pokes some much deserved fun at the uber-celebrity artist Damien Hirst. It totally nail it for me: #12 – The faceless miners in Sierra Leone who procured the 8,601 diamonds for Damien Hirst’s sparkling skull – they may fear for their lives every day as they work in hazardous work conditions and subsist on less than 1% of the value of a pencil in a Hirst installation, but they sleep well at night knowing that a silly sculpture that represents the pinnacle of the latest gilded age exists. The following from the “20 Most Powerless People in the Art World”
pokes some much deserved fun at the uber-celebrity artist Damien Hirst. It totally nail it for me:

#12 – The faceless miners in Sierra Leone who procured the 8,601 diamonds for Damien Hirst’s sparkling skull – they may fear for their lives every day as they work in hazardous work conditions and subsist on less than 1% of the value of a pencil in a Hirst installation, but they sleep well at night knowing that a silly sculpture that represents the pinnacle of the latest gilded age exists.

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