Digital BW, The Print

I hadn't thought about SELLING this mess en toto....what a concept...we
could do ebay and bid up the masterpieces...

> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:54:58 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: ART-what is it?
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., ternahan <ternahan@s...>
> wrote:
>> 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)
> 
> Trish,
> 
> Since I have unknowingly greated my master work can I now coat for
> posterity and retire from this madness?
> 
> 
>> ....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.
> 
> Oh he is missing an oportunity here! He should definately sue for
> damages since it was worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars". <<G>>
> 
> Martin
> 
> (snip)
> 
> 
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