{"id":10906,"date":"2016-01-02T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-hes-at-pains-to-point-out-that-this\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:19:20","slug":"but-hes-at-pains-to-point-out-that-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-hes-at-pains-to-point-out-that-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But he&rsquo;s at pains to point out that this &ldquo;anti-art&rdquo; is itself part of art. &ldquo;Art has something which destroys its own cells,&rdquo; says Kiefer. &ldquo;Damien Hirst is a great anti-artist. To go to Sothebys and sell your paintings directly&rdquo; \u2013 as Hirst did in 2008 \u2013 &ldquo;is destroying art. But in doing it to such an exaggerated extent, it becomes art. I liked this action, the Sotheby&rsquo;s sale, and the fact that it was two days before the crash made it even better.&rdquo; In fact, Hirst&rsquo;s auction, which netted \u00a393m, and the collapse of Lehman Brothers happened at the same time, 15-16 September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2011\/dec\/08\/anselm-kiefer-art-white-cube\">Anselm Kiefer: &lsquo;Art is difficult, it&rsquo;s not entertainment&rsquo; | Art and design | The Guardian<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But he&rsquo;s at pains to point out that this &ldquo;anti-art&rdquo; is itself part of art. &ldquo;Art has something which destroys its own cells,&rdquo; says Kiefer. &ldquo;Damien Hirst is a great anti-artist. To go to Sothebys and sell your paintings directly&rdquo; \u2013 as Hirst did in 2008 \u2013 &ldquo;is destroying art. But in doing it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[338,101,337,336,339],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-anselm-kiefer","tag-art","tag-art-market","tag-commerce","tag-damien-hirst","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2PU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}