And now, the burn we’ve all been waiting for: Legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who has been painting polka-dots since before Damien Hirst was born, comments on the hated “Spot” mania. Let’s get ready to oooooh… Read more »
Damien Hirst’s treasure hunt for rich people who like dots goes on! So far, 18 deep-pocketed jet-setters like this Russian weirdo went to all 11 Gagosian Galleries in all 8 countries to get their card stamped for a free print of Hirst’s hated spots. Let’s all root for young #AverageJoe or Josef Valentino who shares my Hirst-hate and has almost crowd-sourced his way to a win, just to prove a point! Read more »
Russian child star turned “crypto-socialite” has won the Damien Hirst’s treasure hunt for rich people who like dots, that is, he visited all of the simultaneous “Spot Painting” exhibits at 11 Gagosian Galleries in 8 countries to get a free limited edition Spot print. There are two other winners so far, Fast Company journalist Jeff Chu and Arrested Motion founder Tan Wong, but they’re not the ones doing obnoxious duckface — not be confused with #SHARKFACE — with Damien. Read more »
A New York real-estate broker Richard Silver was sentenced for selling counterfeit Damien Hirst spots. See, what happened was is that bought some “spots” that turned out to be forgeries, so he re-sold the fakes on eBay. Now he’s headed to Rikers Island for sixty days. Read more »
Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings have been relentlessly hated on by my art blogger comrades, so, for purely empirical purposes, I decided to go to see them in person and… uhh… be open to them. But first, I had to somehow purge myself of anger and that unceasing belief that Mr. Hirst is kind of a shit and his spots are nothing but bombastic, colorful turdlets. And so, I made merry with my temporary displacement in California and reaped the medical perks, hint cough hint. Read more »
Now that Damien Hirst’s eleven simultaneous shows of mind-numbing spot paintings are open, there seems to be a reactionary wave of dislike. Here’s why “We hate this shit,” with necessary wisdom from Hennessy Youngman. Read more »
Remember how Damien Hirst said he’d never make his meh dot paintings again, forcing their market value to skyrocket? Remember how he then went psyche! and started making dots again, showing them off at 11 simultaneous exhibits in all of the Gagosian galleries? Here’s his latest nifty hustle. Read more »
Back in 2008, ingenious plagiarist, snatch decorator, and hobbyist drug counselor Damien Hirst declared that he shall no longer be making candy-color dot paintings. Panic ensued. In a 2-day Sotheby’s grab-a-thon, 21,000 visitors swiftly rushed to buy up hundreds of Hirst-works for $200.7 million (cha-ching), especially those rare, extinct dots because there isn’t going to be any more, gasp!.. Guess who’s making dots again? Read more »
This sleek trailer from Ryan Hope’s docu debut is your behind-the-scenes for the Dasha Zhukova’s GARAGE Magazine shoot, the one with all the artist tattoos including the infamous butterfly labia à la Damien Hirst. Looks like that’s the proprietor cringing. Read more »
The wait is over, pervs. Dasha Zhukova’s brilliant PR-scheme has come to its crescendo with the release of the first issue of her new fashion-art glossy Garage, featuring a controversial crotch tattooed with a Damien Hirst butterfly. Someone peeled off that Andy Warhol-esque sticker and scanned the goods. Very NSFW, obviously. Read more »
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