if you read one art review this year - make it this one

[dellzeqq]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/22/damien-hirst-two-weeks-review
wowser!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Ouch, not even I have had reviews that bad! Mind you, my old band put the bad reviews on posters, one of our favourites was 'sexually inert bedwetters make music like this'.

 

[tiswas-steve]

Oooooh bet that hurt Mr Brit Art.

 

[PK99]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/22/damien-hirst-two-weeks-review
wowser!

thanks for the link - I normally avoid Hirst and his (often fawning) reviews like the plague. This one read like an AA Gill review of a crap restaurant

 

[redcard]

Ouch, not even I have had reviews that bad! Mind you, my old band put the bad reviews on posters, one of our favourites was 'sexually inert bedwetters make music like this'.

Was that your mum?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

She didn't see me play until I played in front of about 5000 in our town; we wore masks and lycra and she said she couldn't tell which one I was, but asked if I was 'the fat one'.

 

[theclaud]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/22/damien-hirst-two-weeks-review
wowser!

Holy Toledo!

Ouch, not even I have had reviews that bad! Mind you, my old band put the bad reviews on posters, one of our favourites was 'sexually inert bedwetters make music like this'.

I still use this one, though it's a few years old now: "Pornography for intellectuals" The Bishop of Galway

 

[srw]

"Compare him with Caravaggio" - Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

I had the misfortune to see Hirst's exhibition at the Wallace Collection a few years ago - an unusual choice of venue for Christmas dinner for a department of people whose idea of culture is Nando's. I thought the whole gallery was pretty ropey (not being a fan of visual baroquery - musicians did so much better than painters in the 18th century), but a special place in hell should be reserved for the imagination that came up with variations on the theme of dead butterflies and badly painted skulls.

I happened to walk past Tate Modern a couple of times today, displaying Hirst's "Unimaginative reproduction of an anatomical figure blown up for no good reason to twice life size" outside. I did think the plaza would be a good place to start a bike ride - if it weren't for the fact that cycling is strictly verboten.

 

[slowmotion]

I'm gagging for Brian Sewell's review.



EDIT : Actually, sorry. This post is just an excuse for another outing of this clip....

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3G618-hxgA[/media]

 

[smutchin]

I've seen the Hirst exhibition at Tate Modern and quite enjoyed it. Like pretty much everything I've seen at TM, it's very well curated, so you can appreciate the narrative of the exhibition even if you don't particularly like the artist's work.

This stuff he's got on at White Cube now sounds like bad art in a badly put together exhibition. Love that review. And that's from someone who professes to like Hirst!

(If Hirst isn't your thing, I highly recommend the brilliant Yayoi Kusama exhibition also on at Tate Modern right now.)

d.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Holy Toledo!



I still use this one, though it's a few years old now: "Pornography for intellectuals" The Bishop of Galway

That's awesome! What was it for?

We put the following line from a review on the masthead of our website for a few years - 'Too eclectic to pigeonhole, or enjoy.'

 

[Cheddar George]

I am not a fan of Damien Hirst.
I saw his pharmacy installation at the Tate modern a few years ago, due to the amount of people i didn't notice a kick stool with an instrument tray full of honey comb on top of it until my foot made contact with it. The noise made most people in the room turn around.

Thankfully the majority of them smiled but there were a couple who stared at me as if i had just crapped on the Mona Lisa.

 

[jonny jeez]

I cant pretend to be a follower of Hirst's work but Jones seems to be frustrated mainly by the fact that Hirst is "trying something new". Is that the case? I relate Hirst to large sculptural installations, so is painting a new thing for him?

if so, does he deserve some credit for an attempt to breakaway?

 

[mickle]

I spent a great deal of time getting drunk with Hirst in the 80's - my best mate at college was his best mate from school. He's why I gave up being an artist. I've always believed that a piece of art should speak for itself. It was clear that he would be a success but that his success would be based on his ability to market himself rather than the quality of his work. The art world should be ashamed that they ever fell for it.

 

[theclaud]

I cant pretend to be a follower of Hirst's work but Jones seems to be frustrated mainly by the fact that Hirst is "trying something new". Is that the case? I relate Hirst to large sculptural installations, so is painting a new thing for him?

if so, does he deserve some credit for an attempt to breakaway?

Not if he's crap at painting...