"to replace the shark, an operation which Cohen then funded, calling the expense ""inconsequential"" (the formaldehyde process alone cost around $100,000). Another shark was caught off Queensland (a female aged about 25–30 years, equivalent to middle age) and shipped to Hirst in a 2-month journey. Oliver Crimmen, a scientist and fish curator at London's Natural History Museum, assisted with the preservation of the new specimen in 2006. This involved injecting formaldehyde into the body, as well as soaking it for two weeks in a bath of 7% formalin solution. The original 1991 vitrine was then used to house it. A"
"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the ""Young British Artists"" (or YBA). It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles Saatchi, who sold it in 2004, to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been at least $8 million. However, the title of Don Thompson's book, ""The $12 Million Stuffed Shark:"
"side of the Thames"". The 2009 British-Hungarian film ""The Nutcracker in 3D"" features a scene in which a pet shark is electrocuted in a water tank, which director Andrei Konchalovsky cites as a reference to Hirst's artwork. Hirst's response to those who said that anyone could have done this artwork was, ""But you didn't, did you?"" The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the ""Young British Artists"" (or"
"Damien Hirst), and the body preserved using a mixture of formalin and saline solution. The museum holds the remains and bones of the ""River Thames whale"", a northern bottlenose whale that lost its way on 20 January 2006 and swam into the Thames. Although primarily used for research purposes, and held at the museum's storage site at Wandsworth, the skeleton has been put on temporary public display. Dinocochlea, one of the longer-standing mysteries of paleontology (originally thought to be a giant gastropod shell, then a coprolite and now a concretion of a worm's tunnel), has been part of the collection"
"Hirst. Hirst said, ""It's a very democratic way to sell art and it feels like a natural evolution for contemporary art. Although there is risk involved, I embrace the challenge of selling my work in this way."" The star items were ""The Golden Calf"", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde, and ""The Kingdom"", a preserved tiger shark; other preserved animals included a zebra and a ""unicorn"". The sale included spot and butterfly paintings, many incorporating gold and diamonds. The Gagosian Gallery, who have sold Hirst's work for 12 years, said they would attend to make"
"bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for ""The Golden Calf"", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In several instances since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised. In one instance, after his sculpture ""Hymn"" was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Hirst was born as Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. He never met his father; his"
"philosophical question was acknowledged by Hirst, as to whether the replacement shark meant that the result could still be considered the same artwork. He observed: It's a big dilemma. Artists and conservators have different opinions about what's important: the original artwork or the original intention. I come from a conceptual art background, so I think it should be the intention. It's the same piece. But the jury will be out for a long time to come. Hirst has made other works subsequently which also feature a preserved shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine. In September 2008, ""The Kingdom"", a tiger"
"In 2005, Černý created Shark, an image of Saddam Hussein in a tank of formaldehyde. The work was presented at the Prague Biennale 2 that same year. The work is a direct parody of a 1991 work by Damien Hirst, ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"". In 2006, the work was banned in Middelkerke, Belgium, in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, and also in the German town of Büdelsdorf. With respect to the Belgian situation, the mayor of that town, Michel Landuyt, admitted that he was worried that the exhibit could ""shock people, including Muslims"" in a year"
"by famous artists—including a Pollock drip painting from David Geffen for $52 million and Damien Hirst's ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"", a piece that the artist had bought back from Charles Saatchi for $8 million. He has purchased some unusual art works. In 2006, Cohen remarked that repairing his suspended shark artwork (Hirst's ""Physical Impossiblity""), a cost estimated to be a minimum of $100,000, was an ""inconsequential"" expense. Since the original shark was over 10 years old, it had begun to rot. It was replaced with another shark in 2006. Cohen has also placed"
"Away"" in 1994 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited ""Away from the Flock"" (a sheep in a tank of formaldehyde). On 9 May, Mark Bridger, a 35-year-old artist from Oxford, walked into the gallery and poured black ink into the tank, and retitled the work ""Black Sheep"". He was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish, and was given two years' probation. The sculpture was restored at a cost of £1,000. When a photograph of ""Away from the Flock"" was reproduced in the 1997 book by Hirst ""I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone,"
"and image showing an African child perched on his knee. This design was not to the liking of the record company executives, and was replaced by reindeer in the snow standing next to a child. In December 2004, ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"" was sold by Saatchi to American collector Steve Cohen, for $8 million, in a deal negotiated by Hirst's New York agent, Gagosian. Cohen, a Greenwich hedge fund manager, then donated the work to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sir Nicholas Serota had wanted to acquire it for the Tate"
"shark in formaldehyde ""the world's most over-rated marine organism"" and attacked the artist for ""functioning like a commercial brand"", making the case that Hirst and his work proved that financial value was now the only meaning that remained for art. Hirst's 2009 show, ""No Love Lost"", of paintings by his own hand, at the Wallace Collection in London, received ""one of the most unanimously negative responses to any exhibition in living memory"". Tom Lubbock of ""The Independent"" called Hirst's work derivative, weak and boring: ""Hirst, as a painter, is at about the level of a not-very-promising, first-year art student."" Rachel"
"the Mbwun's reach. Thus, in order to stay alive, it needed the next best substitute: the human hypothalamus. Though it tried its best to keep its existence a secret by living off smaller animals and homeless individuals in the sewers, it eventually turned to the murders of the boys and the security guard. Even during the police investigation, it could no longer deny its appetite, and thus ran amok during the exhibition. Pendergast also reveals that, among the bodies that were found in the lair were the remains of Moriarty and a pendant that Whittlesey had always worn on him,"
"For the Love of God For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. The skull's teeth are original, and were purchased by Hirst in London. The artwork is a ""memento mori"", or reminder of the mortality of the viewer. In 2007, art historian Rudi Fuchs, described the work as ""out of this world, celestial almost. It proclaims victory over decay."
"is on page 647—it is a model of a cow divided down the centre, like his piece"", a reference to Hirst's work ""Mother and Child, Divided"", a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde. LeKay also suggests that Hirst copied the idea of ""For the Love of God"" from his work on crystal skulls in 1993, saying, ""I would like Damien to acknowledge that 'John really did inspire the skull and influenced my work a lot.'"" Copyright lawyer Paul Tackaberry reviewed images of LeKay's and Hirst's work and saw no basis for any appropriation rising to the"
"an infant dragon preserved in formaldehyde proving the existence of dragons, although this was later proven to be a hoax. It also quoted Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth on Pope John Paul II's battles with Satan, and ran a story on the copyright dispute between ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" and a German erotic periodical also named ""O"". In February 1989 ""WWN"" published real, graphic photos on its front page of the post autopsied body of executed serial killer Ted Bundy. Eddie Clontz, then the managing editor, defended his decision to run the photos claiming that he hoped such images would"
"exhibition that attracted considerable media coverage as Hirst's first show in Latin America. In June that year, he exhibited alongside the work of Francis Bacon (""Triptychs"") at the Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, an exhibition that included the vitrine, ""A Thousand Years"" (1990), and four triptychs: paintings, medicine cabinets and a new formaldehyde work entitled ""The Tranquility of Solitude (For George Dyer)"", influenced by Bacon. ""A Thousand Years"" (1990) contains an actual life cycle. Maggots hatch inside a white minimal box, turn into flies, then feed on a bloody, severed cow's head on the floor of a claustrophobic glass vitrine."
"the century, they found them instead exhilarating, fascinating, and sublime."" White argues that sharks have been seen as transcendent, awe-inspiring creatures throughout centuries, a creature that is the embodiment of sublimitude as well as a metaphorical representation of our mind helps, relaying the importance of how special our thoughts really are. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever was a two-day auction of Hirst's new work at Sotheby's, London, taking place on 15 and 16 September 2008. It was unusual as he bypassed galleries and sold directly to the public. Writing in ""The Independent"", Cahal Milmo said that the idea of the"
"matter. ""Garden"" is a 12 metre-long, 3 metre-high sculpture in which thousands of flowers are frozen in silicon (now belonging to the Fondazione Prada collection). The flowers in the sculpture can never bloom in the same time of year or in the same parts of the world. His portrait of John E. Sulston, who won the Nobel prize in 2002 for sequencing the human genome on the Human Genome Project, is in the National Portrait Gallery. It consists of bacteria containing Sulston's DNA in agar jelly. ""The portrait was made by our standard methods for DNA cloning"", writes Sulston. ""My"
"He enjoyed his neck being scratched, and would extend it during the process. He eventually fell ill and was transported to Guelph University hospital, where he died. There, he was frozen until he could be delivered to a taxidermist. He was eventually returned to the museum stuffed. Also living in the museum were two very large pythons and a boa constrictor which lived in the basement and often escaped to other parts of the house. Also residing in the house from time to time were a fruit bat, three lemurs, several chinchillas and numerous ferrets. Of the myriad artifacts displayed"
"""There are silver prints, gold prints, and platinum prints-- precious from a metal standpoint-- but they embody nothing more than capturing time; ash is a way to capture both time and matter."" His works include an image of his left eye made from clippings of his own hair and an image of flowers made from the pollen of those flowers. In 1992 he created an image of a man named Bob Christensen out of Christensen's ashes. Christensen died of AIDS in 1991 in Long Beach, California at the age of 39, and his mother donated the ashes to Fink in"
"membrane, and as the fish thrashed to release itself the left wing of ""Rhamphorhynchus"" was pulled backward into the distorted position seen in the fossil. The encounter resulted in the death of both individuals, most likely because the two animals sank into an anoxic layer in the water body, depriving the fish of oxygen. The two may have been preserved together as the weight of the head of ""Aspidorhynchus"" held down the much lighter body of ""Rhamphorhynchus"". A large number of ""Rhamphorhynchus"" species have been named, but are currently considered year-classes of ""R. muensteri"" by most researchers. Currently recognized specimens"
"worship of living and thinking creatures."" The monolith, situated next to a channel of water in the bottom of the chasm, is covered in unfamiliar hieroglyphs ""consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopuses, crustaceans, mollusks, whales, and the like."" There are also ""crude sculptures"" depicting: "" As the narrator looks at the monolith, a creature emerges from the water: Horrified, the mariner flees back to his stranded boat and vaguely recalls a ""great storm"". His next memory is of a San Francisco hospital, where he was taken after being rescued in mid-ocean by"
"within the museum, the most peculiar were a reconstructed panther skeleton, a collection of grapefruit-sized turquoise malachite eggs, fossilized elephant bird eggs, unexploded military mortar shells, an elephant skull with jaw-bone, dried elephant dung balls, a stuffed dingo, and various human skulls from the Ganges river. The front garden of the museum was enclosed by an 8 foot high iron polar bear fence purchased from the Riverdale Zoo during renovations. The back garden held an underground, granite-walled tunnel which led to a room known as the ""tomb"". The entrance to the tunnel was a secret doorway under Elder's bed in"
"realized, suggesting its implication from symbolic to subsistence. Giving the creature a realistic form, somewhat detaches it from the folklore, making it even more independent and less enigmatic. The sculpture though realistic is nonetheless inanimate. It does however, provide intimate suggestions of what it could have been if it was truly alive. Combined with the head of a lion, a mane similar to a pangolin’s scales, the body of a seal, tail of a shark and patterns from a whale, ""Singa Merlionus"" is a mammal designed to glide in the water and still survive on land. This is inspired by"
"I felt that a part of me was in the piece. I was a bit shocked."" LeKay has stated that he was a friend of Damien Hirst between 1992 and 1994 and shared a mixed show with him. LeKay also stated that Hirst had got other ideas for his work from a “marked-up duplicate copy” of a Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogue, which he had given him. One example was Hirst’s work ""Mother and Child, Divided"" – a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde: ""You have no idea how much he got from this catalogue. The"
"came from an Aztec turquoise skull at the British Museum. However, artist John LeKay, a friend of Hirst's in the early 1990s, said the work is based on a skull covered with crystals which LeKay had made in 1993. LeKay said, ""When I heard he was doing it, I felt like I was being punched in the gut. When I saw the image online, I felt that a part of me was in the piece. I was a bit shocked."" On 1 June 2007, ""For the Love of God"" went on display in an illuminated glass case in a darkened"
"and cheetah. In 2002, geneticists at the Australian Museum announced that they had replicated DNA of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), at the time extinct for about 65 years, using polymerase chain reaction. However, on 15 February 2005 the museum announced that it was stopping the project after tests showed the specimens' DNA had been too badly degraded by the (ethanol) preservative. On 15 May 2005 it was announced that the thylacine project would be revived, with new participation from researchers in New South Wales and Victoria. In 2003, for the first time, an extinct animal, the Pyrenean ibex mentioned above"
"we see Gorillaz' 'reject false icons' statue, which one may recognize as Pazuzu, the figurine from ""The Exorcist"" and son of the devil. Crows are flying around the building, in a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"". Shaun Ryder is depicted as a Frankenstein-like monster who is brought to life as the music begins. Amongst the contraptions that are part of the life support system appear to be two Atari joysticks and a Speak & Spell from the early 1980s. Ryder's head being kept alive is a reference to the movie ""The Brain That Wouldn't Die"". The tube attached to"
"and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like ""A Thousand Years"". Hirst gained the European record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist—his ""Lullaby Spring"" in June 2007, when a 3-metre-wide steel cabinet with 6,136 pills sold for 19.2 million dollars to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar. In June 2007, ""Beyond Belief"", an exhibition of Hirst's new work, opened at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled ""For the Love of God"", was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds"
"collection includes paintings of other Mauritian animals as well, including a red rail. The dodo, which may be a juvenile, seems to have been dried or embalmed, and had probably lived in the emperor's zoo for a while together with the other animals. That whole stuffed dodos were present in Europe indicates they had been brought alive and died there; it is unlikely that taxidermists were on board the visiting ships, and spirits were not yet used to preserve biological specimens. Most tropical specimens were preserved as dried heads and feet. One dodo was reportedly sent as far as Nagasaki,"
"is the process of death and decay. Some critics argue that the minimalistic qualities of the work, coinciding with the ‘stereotypical’ death theme, are too bland for such a prestigious artist. One critic wrote, ""But the famous shark, shackled to its coffeebar-existentialist title – The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – seems ever more dilapidated, more fairground sideshow, with every dowdy showing. What clichéd menace it may once have theoretically possessed has evaporated."" Another art critic, Luke White, disagrees, saying that others had earlier perceived sharks ""...as ugly and dangerous, but by the end of"
"returned to the courthouse. Some speculated that the body in the coffin was a substitute, with the real lizard being held in a private collection. Looney Tunes character, Michigan J. Frog was inspired by Ol' Rip's story. Ol' Rip the Horned Toad Ol' Rip (died January 19, 1929) was a horned lizard (commonly referred to as a ""horned toad"" or ""horny toad"") whose supposed 31-year hibernation as an entombed animal is believed by some and doubted by others. His name is a reference to the fictional character Rip Van Winkle. In 1897, a horned lizard was placed in a cornerstone"