Digital BW, The Print

ternahan wrote:

> 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?

I read the article...Left me with my head shaking.  I obviously didn't think it was art, bu then again, I
don't 'get' a lot of modern art.  For me, art should be like that famous definition of pornography:  "I can't
describe it, but I know it when I see it."

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC






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