These stars are for you, Mr Wildcat.

Damn, now Karl Pilkington's all I can think about when I look at him.

I would actually love to see "Mother and Child" reimagined as a life-sized Mortal Kombat statue. I could go to the gallery opening dressed up like Kung Lao!

If I'd have been smart I would have invested in the chopped-in-half baby cows that you've been able to buy from biological supply companies for decades and go in to business selling counterfeit Hirst pieces.

Hell, when I was in high school a couple hundred dollars would get you a HUMAN torso thinsection from Carolina Biological, framed and everything.

I feel like the postmodern idea that context is what makes something art is a dead end at this point, it was an important phase half a century ago but doing it now is about as interesting as composing pure serial music.

There's a pretty solid rule of thumb that new ideas take about 30 years to achieve widespread public recognition (it's used more in the sciences, especially physics, but definitely applies to art). What' Hirst is doing reached that point sometime in the early to mid 1990s, and at this point it's easily a decade in to the kitsch phase, probably closer to two.

>>What' Hirst is doing reached that point sometime in the early to mid 1990s, and at this point it's easily a decade in to the kitsch phase, probably closer to two.

Nuts to that, OZ. Everyone knows that a true genius is embraced in his time, and reviled years later.

He becomes an even bigger ass?

It inspired my My Little Pony OC, if that counts.