Sir Damien Hirst: Artist or Entrepreneur?
David Galenson
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Posted 06.20.2012
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Hirst's enormous financial success, and the conspicuous delight he takes in it, have produced anguish, envy and outright hostility among many in England's staid and priggish art world, who cling to the ancient ideal that artists should be secular priests, who take vows of poverty and regard money as a source of corruption.