Hirst in Mexico - Again
Cristina Carillo de Albornoz does a feature today in the very excellent Art Newspaper about Damien Hirst and his Death of God exhibition in Mexico City.
Whilst having pointed to Sean O’Hagan’s piece in The Observer back in February - I still got a buzz from this new article. The exhibition opened on 23 February and to date Hirst has sold 16 of the 28 works - and just to break with tradition I’ll not go into the financials here - there are others that comment on that better than I ever can 
A couple of quotes here that made me think:
“In North America I would also have problems with this show because they are so afraid of death, they hate this, they cannot look at a skull; they feel like they are under attack. It’s more to do with a sense of humour failure than anything else.”
“At the end of the day you want young artists to think you are cool. But you have to grow old gracefully. I loved the way the Beatles split in 1970 at their peak; it was brilliant! It is horrible to see people get old.”
Read it here