The most famous example of Britart, Damien Hirst's pickled shark, a.k.a., "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", is to be sold to an American collector for a just under £7m, which represents a healthy profit for Mr. Saatchi, according to reports. It is expected that the work will be lent to the New York MoMA, presumably thereby offsetting the owner's expense by earning a tax deduction for "charity", while protecting the value of the investment by ensuring it stays in the public eye.
Someone on the radio described this event as a "great loss to the nation", but that doesn't make sense. Mr. Hirst is still alive and well and hard at work, and not even old yet, so there's plenty of opportunity for him to make equally good and better work in the future to replace the "loss"... isn't there?
No comments:
Post a Comment