(Originally published in Visual Arts News Sheet, Dublin) “This isn’t just art that exists in the market, or is ‘about’ the market. This is art that is the market – a series of gestures that are made wholly or primarily to capture and embody financial value, and only secondarily have any other function or virtue.” So wrote Hari Kunzru of Damien Hirst’s work in The Guardian. I’m not interested in rehearsing here discussions of Hirst’s merit as an artist; what interests me inst...
