Last Year's ART tid-bit . . .

Whenever you pop in to VISIT this lovely BLOG, you can just glance over to your left to catch up on the lastest ART NEWS.

Last year, I spoke a touch about Damien Hirst and his Exhibition, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever". London hosted a sale at Sotheby's which saw collectors pay a record 111 million pounds for Hirst's trademark animal corpses and butterfly paintings.

So what exactly is going on TODAY in the ART WORLD over in London? We'll let you know soon. In the meantime...

Check out this HEADLINER from AFP . . .

London art market starts to feel economic chill

ART ~ Always INTERESTING ~ Always VIABLE.
René

What's this thing called ART?

British Artist Damien Hirst
ART SCULPTURE: "The Incredible Journey"
Photographer: Shaun Curry

You know ART has a way of really grabbing a hold of you, and making you just feel so GOOD!

Every day is a NEW DAY when you take ART into consideration as you VIEW the world. ART is EVERYWHERE! You can't get around it.

SEEing as how you know how much I LOVE ART, I thought I'd share an interesting ART sculpture with you, and an article on the interesting ARTIST who made it. Here's the VIEW . . .

Damien Hirst, a British ARTIST in front of his magnificent artwork, "The Incredible Journey" during a photocall at Sotheby's in London.

The Sydney Morning Herald did a wonderful story on Damien. John McDonald wrote about how Damien Hirst collaborated with Sotheby's to stage a two-day auction of 223 new works that netted £111.4 million ($245.6 million).

That event, which went by the alluring title Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, has generated an avalanche of comment and publicity.

And they say that ARTISTS starve . . . I beg to differ. Okay, maybe 'beg' isn't the right word to use. Ask Damien if that is true. . . 'ARTISTS starve' . . . HA! ~ I think NOT. And, I'd wager to say that Damien would agree with me.

René