The Mail vs Art

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:38 pm

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Spot on. Just like music - "I could play that". I don't care either that Hirst has a team making his work for him - just that the work is cobblers.

Prexactly.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:58 pm

Verdict = Gobshite chancer.

ACG · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:03 pm

Abernathy wrote:

But Hirst (or at any rate his hired help) DID spend many hours toiling to set up the shark in the tank. So it meets that criterion. I still have sympathy with Sewell's point. It really is just a shark in a tank.

he's as free as anyone to not like the shark, but "it's just a shark in a tank" is a poor justification, cause you can pull that trick for anything, critically it's up there with "it's rubbish because it is", and as a critic, he's kind of meant to do better than that.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:13 pm

Paxo on Newsnight on Hirst... "....his ability to part gullible rich people to part with millions of pounds for gimmicks"

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4274

With music it's not just saying 'Teenage Kicks is easy to play but it's a great pop record' - here's a piece that anyone with a voice and a tape recorder can could have made, but Alvin Lucier did and produced a stunning work. "Art" too, I'm sure.

(sorry, bit of a diversion!)

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:25 pm

Paxo interviewing Hirst now. He does come over as a thicko ignoramus, but you do have to grudgingly admire the ingenious con trick he has pulled off to make millions from rich twats.

(Hirst, not Paxo).

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4274

Bah, can't embed anything again. Remind me!

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:26 pm

I think that applies to both...

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:28 pm

mojojojo wrote:

Bah, can't embed anything again. Remind me!

You only need the bit of the You Tube URL after the = sign inside your You Tube tag.

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

Wondered when they'd get round to this approach.

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Move over Damien! How our man spent £100 knocking out Hirst 'artwork' that has been valued at £100,000

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1rMB2r05g

ACG · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:31 pm

oooh, so it's like that article the sun did about 5 years ago where they remade emin's "tent" (after the originaly was destroyed in a warehouse fire) for about £100 only...the same.

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