How to Get a Head for $100 Million

[Tuckerfan]

First get $100 million, then give this guy a call.

Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds ($98 million).

The skull, cast from a 35-year-old 18th century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than four million pounds in the center of its forehead.

I think I’ll pass.

[Kythereia]

Hamlet: (to Horatio) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio–holy damn, that is some serious bling!

[Alessan]

The damn thing better have magical powers - *evil *magical powers.

Seriously. That’s like something out of Robert E. Howard. I expect a small horde of muscular barbarians to try and steal it within a week.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Alessan

The damn thing better have magical powers - *evil *magical powers.

Seriously. That’s like something out of Robert E. Howard. I expect a small horde of muscular barbarians to try and steal it within a week.

HA!

It will be purlioned by a lone, suave Englishman, who will leave a white glove, embroidered with the words: “The Phantom”.

And then, Clouseau…

[JohnBckWLD]

Considering the fact Hirst’s outlay was $20 million (8,601 stones weighing 1,106.18 carats), I consider it an art world bargain.

Not that he needs the money, but when you put his life-sized, solid plantinum, $100 million skull along side Warhol’s silkscreens going for the same price - or worse yet, Twombly’s scribbling fetching $20 million, it looks like Hirst is selling himself short.

[CynicalGabe]

An ART “bad boy”??

I pity the future generations.