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From: el maco Category: Art Date: 03 June 2007 Time: 06:20 PM Review: Eurotrashy opening. Diamond skull you needed a ticket and queue to glimpse. Wasn't that bothered. Only the price is cool. The paintings of birth are terrible, just some average photorealism with no point to them. Downstairs he had copied himself with some animals bisected and big paintings of blood, scalpels, or diamonds and the like. This was more like it. Sad somehow that are greatest artist inspires no awe, people just think of him as a canny operator, not opaque like Warhol, not mystic like Beuys, not animal like Picasso, just a shrewdie, just well done for milking it, good on the boy made good. Would you like to meat Damien? Nah, not really, maybe if it would help me out, but no interest in what he thinks. Oh maybe cos he's so famous and rich, that must be interesting. Yes, OK.