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Comment on Damien Hirst and Sustainability – What? by Natalie Gilbert

Natalie Gilbert — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:19:06 +0000

I agree with what you say in terms of the cycle, but I don’t think I’ve ever considered him as a great artist – perhaps more a provocation generator and he’s used the art market as a vehicle to create his sensation. I don’t ‘feel’ anything from his work, it feels empty past the hype, but then I’ve never really looked in to it in any great depth since I wasn’t inspired to. Interesting one, since everyone knows his name as an artist all the same!

Comment on Damien Hirst and Sustainability – What? by Joe Zammit-Lucia

Joe Zammit-Lucia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:25:15 +0000

Matter of opinion I guess. I think he’s a great artist that holds up a mirror to our consumption obsessed society – and made a ton of money in the process.

Comment on Damien Hirst and Sustainability – What? by Lindsey Matheson

Lindsey Matheson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:15:04 +0000

His work may be an interesting commentary as you say, but does it really make him an artist? Or is he a hoaxer or critic?

Comment on After Copenhagen – Should the human race be destroyed? by Jd Webb

Jd Webb — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:19:31 +0000

Love the post.

Comment on Damien Hirst and Sustainability – What? by Joe Zammit-Lucia

Joe Zammit-Lucia — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:46:25 +0000

Hi Natalie, thanks for your comment. Actually, I think that, because his art has been such a marvelous window into the fetish for wasteful consumption in our times, I think Hirst will be remembered as one of the great artists of his time. In turn that will make his works continue to be valuable in a self-feeding virtuous circle (if you think it’s virtuous!). Now he’s got bored with it all and has turned his hand to painting. It would be a shame if he finished his career by changing himself from a great artist to a mediocre painter.

Comment on Damien Hirst and Sustainability – What? by Natalie Gilbert

Natalie Gilbert — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:45:41 +0000

Great article. I always wondered what all the fuss was about with Hirst. Now I know. A fuss about nothing!

Thanks for sharing.

Comment on After Copenhagen – Should the human race be destroyed? by Joe Zammit-Lucia

Joe Zammit-Lucia — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:02:00 +0000

Thank you for your comments. I like your idea that we’re just staggering around with empty heads towards the brink and that life will bloom after we’re gone.

Comment on After Copenhagen – Should the human race be destroyed? by Dani

Dani — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:48 +0000

…. umm forgot to answer the question: should we be destroyed? –

Who would make that judgement call? Quis custodieret ipsos custodies?

Maybe it’s happened already and we’re like passengers on the Titanic: not yet aware that we’ve been destroyed, just staggering around with empty heads while the iceberg looms.

Comment on After Copenhagen – Should the human race be destroyed? by Dani

Dani — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:56:15 +0000

We don’t have a crystal ball: perhaps humanity will pull itself back from the brink, but I for one am sceptical. Unless we have a major attack of good sense in the near future we don’t stand much of a chance. In the meantime we drag so many other life-forms into extinction.

One factor gives me hope: even if we fail as a species, even if countless other species fail, the planet will bounce back as it has done over and over again in the past (it helps to know my paleology) and with it, life of some sort. Perhaps we’ve reached the K-T boundary for Homo Sapiens. In that case, it’s consoling for me to know that life will continue in one form or another.

Comment on Beauty or Garbage? by Lemn Sissay at the Royal Academy in London « The Third Ray

Lemn Sissay at the Royal Academy in London « The Third Ray — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:16:00 +0000

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