Digital BW, The Print

Steadman et al,

Did you see the story in yesterday's NY Times about the Damien Hirst
installation?
He set it all up in the gallery street window for his new show (Martin, I
think it looked like our studios)....they had the opening reception and that
night the custodian threw it out...said it looked like garbage...the gallery
owner was quick to point out that he had only "set it aside" (meaning they
were able to pull most of it out of the dumpster)...she was quoted as
stating that it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...staff was able
to put it back together, mostly. Hirst himself thought the whole thing was
hysterically funny.

Is art in the eye
of the beholders or in
the gallery's dumpster?

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