Tagged in London: Is Damian Hirst the Art World’s Goldman Sachs?

Tagged in London: Is Damian Hirst the Art World's Goldman Sachs?YBA star Damian Hirst’s retrospective at the Tate has come within the cross-hairs of the British branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement. One of his works, Hymn, a large-scale reproduction of an anatomical dummy installed in front of the museum, was tagged with “Occupy.” Does Hirst’s personal fortune, estimated to be well north of $300 million, really make him “the Goldman Sachs of the art world,” as The Occupied Times, Of London asserts?

Myers, Andrew, writes extensively about architecture, design, and the fine and decorative arts for the Robb Report and Modern Luxury families of magazines, as well as 1stdibs.com and a catalogue of sh ...read more

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