Today's New York Times has an interesting Op-Ed by Denis Dutton, which dovetails nicely with our mentioning of Damien Hirst's formaldehyde-imprisoned shark in our discussion last class.
It begins:
ART’s link with money is not new, though it does continue to generate surprises. On Friday night, Christie’s in London plans to auction another of Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets: literally a small, sliding-glass medicine cabinet containing a few dozen bottles or tubes of standard pharmaceuticals: nasal spray, penicillin tablets, vitamins and so forth. This work is not as grand as a Hirst shark, floating eerily in a giant vat of formaldehyde, one of which sold for more than $12 million a few years ago. Still, the estimate of up to $239,000 for the medicine cabinet is impressive — rather more impressive than the work itself.
Click here to read the entire article.
More writing by Denis Dutton can be accessed on his website. Interestingly, his most recent book is called “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution.” Funny/odd that the Times has him writing about conceptual art!
Julia
(to see more of Denis Dutton's writing click here)
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