Article: Damien Hirst at Gagosian.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

As chronicled in the work of Damien Hirst, such '90s-style vices as smoking, pill-popping, meat consumption and self-help seem rather pale alongside the excesses of previous eras. A giant circular ash tray, 8 feet in diameter, filled with cigarette butts and other debris, dominated Hirst's first New York gallery show aromatically. A minimalist dot painting, Blue for Girls and Pink for Boys, suggested the brightly colored pill cache of some prescription junkie. A wall-mounted billboard outfitted with rotating slats revealed successive images: a cucumber paired with a Vaseline jar, a hammer paired with a peach, and finally a world-weary tag line: "The trouble with ...

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