Extremely successful art collector and Saatchi Gallery owner Charles Saatchi has unleashed a lengthy, scathing attack on “the hideousness of the art world” and the “vulgar and depressingly shallow” “super-rich art-buying crowd.” In his rant of dissent from within he has found a perfect metaphor for all that is wrong with the Art World: Russian oil ‘n’ gas billionaire/art fiend Roman Abramovich’s laser-shooting mega-yacht that invaded the Venice Biennale that one time. Read more »
Charles Saatchi confesses that Damien Hirst has lost his touch, but claims that 20th century histories will footnote “every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd” and the shark-cutting skull bedazzler. The influential art collector, and co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi, is surprisingly speaking out in a new tell-all book. Set for a September release, “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic” supposedly offers the notorious recluse’s “unflinching responses” to 200 questions from colleagues, critics and admirers on “art, ads, life, god and other mysteries.”
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