Leanne Goebel, writing on Adobe Airstream, asks (and answers) the right question about the Damien Hirst pencil theft incident:
Scotland Yard says the theft was a stunt for publicity. But any more so than Hirst’s diamond encrusted skull was a stunt for publicity and to inflate the value of his art before his “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” direct-to-auction sale at Sotheby’s?
Perhaps the real issue is that Hirst, the most famous, well-known and richest living conceptual artist is being out-concepted by a teenager?
Ah, but you want to read the whole post, really.