Damien Hirst's Crystal Skull called "For the Love of God" is truly an amazing piece. Ha, I can't really see how this piece is more "art" than it is an investment. The skull has diamonds galore on it costing 14 million pounds to produce. The art piece went on display with an asking bid price of 50 million pounds which would make it the highest price ever paid for a single work by an artist.
This is the point I was trying to make. Think about encrusting anything with 14 million pounds worth of diamonds, or covering a whole skeleton in platinum and gold? Can just about anyone actually flip a piece of artwork for this much money? I think that it's absolutely ingenious of Damien Hirst. He took a piece that he knew would be worth something very valuable to begin with and turned it into an investment where he knew big bucks could be sought. As a business major you kind of have to respect Hirst's ability to realize the true "investment" that relishes in art. He deserves his piece to sell for that much and deserves to currently be the richest artist today. Hey, in all respectfulness, he was the entreprenuer who did it first. He's about as smart as the guy who invented Viagra.
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