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Article: Damien Hirst at Gagosian.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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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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Article: Damien Hirst.(Interview)
Interview;
December 1, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... SHARK IN FORMALDEHYDE. (THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ... Georgian building that houses Damien Hirst's London office. On the ... showman," he riposted. Damien Hirst has a tremendous ego, but ... failed it would open the door. DAMIEN HIRST: Yeah. AHG: What do you ...
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