Posts tagged ‘damien hirst’
Time Magazine sits down with Damien Hirst. They talk about his spot paintings and why he wanted to put them in so many galleries at the same time, the meaning behind the spots, his diamond encrusted skull and his worth, which seems to be a little lower than in this recent listing of the richest living artists. Enjoy!
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Last week we reported about David Choe being paid in 2005 in stock by Facebook, for painting murals in their offices. That stock might become worth 200 Million USD, after Facebook’s IPO and official stock market listing. Complex took a look at the richest living artists, and it is interesting to see where Choe ranks in there now.
Here is the complete list:
- Damien Hirst – 1 Billion USD
- Jeff Koons – 500 Million USD
- Jasper Johns – 300 Million USD
- David Choe – 200 Million USD
- Andre Vicari – 142 Million USD
- Takashi Murakami – 100 Million USD
- Anish Kapoor – 85 Million USD
- Antony Gormley – 50 Million USD
- Gerhard Richter – 40 Million USD
- David Hockney – 40 Million USD
- Cindy Sherman – 35 Million USD
- Richard Prince – 30 Million USD
- Andreas Gursky – 30 Million USD
- Chuck Close – 25 Million USD
- Georg Baselitz – 25 Million USD
For background on each one of the artists, check the full article over at Complex.
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Hennessy Youngman on Damien Hirst, “The Bono of the Art World.”
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As some of you may already know, all Gagosian Galleries around the globe will launch the Damien Hirst ‘The Complete Spot Paintins 1986-2011′ exhibition on January 12th, 2012. All 11 locations of the prominent gallery around the globe, will be host to the work of the English superstar artist and his spot paintings.
Today Gagosian announced the ‘The Complete Spot Challenge’. Anybody can participate and win a signed Damien Hirst spot print dedicated personally to you. All you have to do is visit all 11 Gagosian Galleries in Paris, Rome, New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Athens, Geneva, London and Rome, while the exhibitions are running. That means between January 12th and March 10th, 2012. If you want to start booking some flights, check for all locations here.
Learn more on how to participate here.
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“Ryan Hope’s debut film, Skin, is a documentary that tests the boundaries of art and the human body, Skin is a dark, stylish examination of tattoo culture as high art.
Featuring contributions from Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Raymond Pettibon and in association with Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Magazine, the film is a beautiful visual essay from the frontiers of contemporary British art.”
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Artist Damien Hirst presents an interesting new project. He gets together with Flea on a series of Spin Bass Guitars, featuring his iconic splash color design. The guitars will be launched on November 8th, 2011, at Other Criteria in London, with all proceeds from the sales going to the Silverlake conservatory of music.
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Auction house Christie’s will be teaming up with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and his company Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. to support the victims of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-Pacific earthquake in Japan. For the occasion a dedicated section of their November 9th, 2011, auction in New York was given to Murakami. Murakami contributed works himself to be auction off and chose other works from some of contemporary art’s biggest names to support the event. Works by Zeng Fanzhi, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, KAWS, Jeff Koons, Friedrich Kunath, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Gabriel Orozco, Anselm Reyle, Cindy Sherman, Aya Takano, and Luc Tuymans will be part of the sale.
Gagosian Gallery will be holding a preview of the works from the auction, from Wednesday, October 26th to Friday, October 28th at their Madison Avenue Gallery in New York.
A preview of the works follows after the jump.
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Dazed & Confused presents a great November 2011 issue, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The Photo Special includes exclusive images from contributors such as Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Rankin, Damien Hirst, Ryan McGinley, Will McBride, Manuela Pavesi and many more. Furthermore Danny field opens his archive of the Lower East Side 70’s scene and other features include Steven Gill and Chantal Regnault. It looks like a must buy issue.
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The much anticipated Garage Magazine will release its first issue for Fall/Winter 2011. Named after the art space that founder Dasha Zhukova opened in 2008 in Moscow, nobody really knows what to expect from the fashion/art magazine, yet expectations are certainly high. The art director of German 032c magazine is also the new art director of Garage magazine and the three covers for the first issue, only hint at the high profile talent that the magazine managed to bring together for its first issue.
Artist Dinos Chapman worked with photographer Nick Knight, Hedi Slimane photographed a naked model (Shauna Taylor) having a Damien Hirst butterfly tattoo on her crotch, which is covered by a removable Damien Hirst butterfly sticker on the cover. And last but not least Richard Prince also created an artwork for the a third cover. A launch of the magazine is expected during New York Fashion Week 2011, early September.
Check out all three covers after the jump.
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Damien Hirst has designed the latest record cover for band Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘I’m With You’. The record, which releases August 30th, 2011, features his signature pharmaceutical theme, using a pill. (Curated)
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