Personally I find Hirst's works either brilliant or absolute nonsense. This skull seems to be somewhere in between, oddly enough. I'll upvote because he made Banksy a household name in the world of contemporary art

According to Damien Hirst on the Charlie Rose show, this is owned by the artist and a syndicate that includes the folks who fronted the diamonds. There's talk of it being valued at 100 million dollars or so, with 12 million dollars worth of diamonds. Maybe that's true. This is important because this is the world we live in. I think the financing is part of the art.

Moving this video to critttter's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

Do not forsake the diamond skull I *beg

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After having seen this work in person I retract the scepticism I expressed in my previous comment and *promote this simply astonishing work of art!

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I'm kinda of with Rasch on this one... it is hard to tell... not quite bs modern art, not quite compelling...

... it reminds me of gansta goblets...

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