While TIME’s Richard Lacayo won’t cover the Hirst’s Southeby’s auction, the NY Times’ Carol Vogel sure will. I’m repeatedly hearing that the big buyers for contemporary works at auction, the ones who are driving the market, are non-Western capitalists whose economies are surging ahead while America is spinning its wheels in the mud. Is Hirst (and by extension the top of the art market) playing the fiddle while the Western world burns? Or is he the fiddle that’s being played?
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