It's reading things like this that make me despair.
I love art-I think art has value. But when prices are just about plucked from the sky for pieces, I find it vulgar. Art has always been something that I consider a reflection of society as a whole, and yet now it is almost exclusively for the rich, by the rich and discussed by the rich. I mean even Banksy pieces going for more than a quarter of a mil??
And Damien Hirst needs to pull his head out of his backside.
