Sotheby's to Hold Hirst Auctions; Ztohoven Collective Fined for Prank
2008-06-20 16:33:18 未知
Bloomberg reports that Damien Hirst will offer a sculpture of a gold-trimmed bull that he expects to fetch up to twenty-four million dollars at a Sotheby’s London auction of his works in September. The “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auction, to be held on September 15 and 16, is Sotheby’s second sale of works by the artist. The New York–based auction house will offer a range of pieces in various media created by Hirst in the last two years, the company said in an e-mailed statement today. Its centerpiece is The Golden Calf, a gold-framed ten-foot-long glass box containing a formaldehyde-dipped bull, whose head is crowned with a solid gold disc. Its hooves and horns are cast in eighteen-carat gold. “It’s a very democratic way to sell art,” Hirst said in his joint statement with Sotheby’s. “It feels like a natural evolution for contemporary art.”
In other news, the cost of superimposing a nuclear mushroom cloud on a television weather report in the Czech Republic: 50,000 koruna, or about $3,210. The New York Times reports that was the fine meted out on Wednesday to each of three artists who hacked into a broadcast of Czech Television’s CT2 channel for thirty-nine seconds last June. Seven members of the Ztohoven art collective were acquitted of charges of scaremongering in March, a decision that prosecutors have appealed. The artists have said they were trying to draw attention to the network’s failure to carry out its public broadcasting mission.
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