Last year, artist Damien Hirst exhibited his diamond skull piece "For the Love of God" while he was shopping for a buyer. Hirst eventually bought the piece along with a group of investors for its $100 million asking price. Now the piece is on the road again. The Netherlands' national museum will exhibit the diamond and platinum skull for six weeks starting November 1. The piece is decorated with 8,601 diamonds and allegedly takes its name from Hirst's mother's exclamation when she heard what her son was up to.
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8-30-2008 @ 1:40PM
margalutt said...
They could and should have given this guy better teeth.
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8-30-2008 @ 2:10PM
Judy Johnson said...
Can you just imagine how many of the world's starving people could not only be fed, but who could live like kings, on $100 million? This picture makes me sick, not because of the diamonds' setting but for the sickening waste this display represents. Lord, Jesus, come quickly!
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8-30-2008 @ 2:13PM
mona said...
A diamond skull? There are people in THIS country going hungry, and you spend 100 mil on a diamond skull? Gee...wonder what's wrong with America?
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8-30-2008 @ 6:45PM
Brooker said...
whos skull is it?
email me to tell me please!!!
brookermonoxide@hotmail.com
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8-30-2008 @ 6:48PM
Deidre Woollard said...
Hi Brooker:
The exact identity is unknown, it is the skull of a 35-year-old 18th century European man which Hirst bought in a London shop.
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9-05-2008 @ 6:44PM
Felix gabriel said...
Art is supposed provoke emotion. Sadly this piece leaves me slightly numb, i suppose it's more the cost of the materials and as someone said before "the amount of people that could be fed".The concept i find interesting, being of African desent, i am conscious of how many of my peoples lives was taken in order to mine those very materials. Would cubic zirconiums been sufficient to convey the conceptual message that hirst was trying to get across ?would cubic zircs provoke emotion ?
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