{"id":1079,"date":"2009-09-17T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/more_on_damien_hirsts_pencils\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T20:23:12","slug":"more_on_damien_hirsts_pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/more_on_damien_hirsts_pencils.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Damien Hirst’s pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous:<\/p>\n

From C-Monster<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The graffiti artist who stole a buncha pencils from a Hirst installation at the Tate Modern is now threatening to sharpen them<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In response to my reposting C-Monster, an artist emailed me:<\/p>\n

That’s cute, Regina, but you’re missing the point. One artist vandalized the work of another. The pencils aren’t just pencils, any more than Claes Oldenburg’s <\/em>bat<\/a> is just a bat. In a more rational world than the one shaping up online, art critics would support the artist, not the vandal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think it’s worth remembering that Damien Hirst started this fight when he took teenage street artist Cartrain<\/a> to court for copyright infringement, and, in an astonishing miscarriage of justice, won. <\/p>\n

Copyright? Cartrain’s collages are satires.<\/p>\n

An example of what Cartrain was forced to hand over to Hirst’s lawyers, posted by Jonathan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Cartrainshirst.jpg\"<\/span>I love Hirst’s work, but he’s in danger of becoming the Dick Cheney of the art world.<\/p>\n

As Jones wrote:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

Damien Hirst<\/a>‘s feud with teenage street artist Cartrain could yet become the most controversial story of Hirst’s career<\/a>.
\nIt really is vile for a rich man to use his power to bully someone who,
\nafter all, is just trying to emulate him by making art with found
\nmaterials. <\/p>\n

Presumably, what irks Hirst is that Cartrain used
\nHirst’s diamond skull in a series of collaged portraits of the skull’s
\ncreator. Hirst successfully demanded that all the young artist’s works
\nincorporating the diamond skull should be handed over<\/a>, presumably to be destroyed. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

(That’s two presumablys in one paragraph. Doesn’t the Guardian employ editors?) Of course Cartrain should give Hirst back his dick<\/strike> pencils. But Hirst needs to stop being<\/i> such a dick. One Cheney is more than enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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