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Damien Hirst’s neo-Imperial military-industrial-aesthetic-economic 1%-spot-painting-complex opens at all 4211 Larry Gagosian Nike Towns around the globe (plus two outlets on Neptune). I’d love to own any spot painting (each is equally cheery, modern looking, and graphically optimistic). But you see one spot painting; you’ve seen them all (which may be one of their stronger Sol Le Witt/On Kawara-like aesthetic qualities). Whatever. Here’s my intro to the shows, an assessment of his career, a timeline of Hirstiana, price-charts (to make you more sick than you were before); and bitchy things written about him in the British press. – Unfortunately, the way it’s laid out on this link I can’t really read the Timeline part. Oh well. This may be one of those things you have to read in the actual magazine. 
“Spots & Sharks & Maggots & Money; How Damien Hirst took over the world. http://bit.ly/woLyJT


PS. And a cover piece I wrote in Art in America on Hirst about 15 years ago. I haven’t read it since then. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/more-life-the-work-of-damien-hirst/ 

- Jerry Saltz via Facebook