Article: A crafty artist, after his momentThe thrill is gone in Hirst's new show

Michael Kimmelman
International Herald Tribune
04-02-2005
With his first New York show since 2000, Damien Hirst, abandoning his famous menagerie of dead sharks and pharmaceuticals and large ashtrays and air-blown beach balls and humongous anatomical models, has unveiled at Larry Gagosian's Chelsea emporium 31 photorealist paintings, all heavily assistant-aided and tongue in cheek. The subjects include skulls, crystals, pills, a doctor proffering a brain, an empty hospital hallway, an emaciated crack addict, a bloody soccer hooligan and dissecting tables, among others. The show's opening galvanized the predictable mob of ebullient celebrities and tut-tutting rubberneckers. They cheerfully ...

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