Is art whatever you can get away with?
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“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. That way, when someone visits you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.” —Andy Warhol
:: Damien Hirst’s Away from the Flock (1994). Steel, glass, lamb, formaldehyde.
Leave it to the maestro of Campbell’s soup-label-turned-modern-masterpiece to point out the fields of futility where art and society often collide. From “art collectors” with little interest in anything beyond appraisal appreciation to “artists” seeking shock value (we’re looking at you and your sheep swimming in formaldehyde, Mr. Hirst), sometimes art crosses the line simply for the line’s sake—for public fervor, for personal attention, even for cold hard cash.
