Above, "Anthrafuchsone", by Damien Hirst, sold at Christie's for $562,196.00.
The Hirst Spot paintings are dull, dull, dull, but that's not really the point. It's not about making something interesting to look at, it's a money-laundering scheme. I recommend the documentary by Ben Lewis, The Great Contemporary Art Bubble.
In the NYTimes this morning, Damien Hirst's Spots Return to Fill 11 Galleries.
There were two parts of the article that piqued my interest:
... white cardboard models of all 11 Gagosian galleries were laid out on tables, with miniature reproductions of each canvas hanging on the models’ walls.
... [Hirst's] father, who was a car salesman in Leeds, in northern England, ... painted the door of their house with blue spots.
They should put the door and the cardboard models in one of the galleries. I'd rather look at them than another spot painting any day.
