{"id":30,"date":"2004-12-23T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:23:45","slug":"shark-has-teeth-like-razors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/shark-has-teeth-like-razors.html","title":{"rendered":"The Shark Has Teeth Like Razors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bourgeois art circles are buzzing with the news that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuckism.com\/Shark.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pickled shark by artist Damien Hirst<\/a> has been sold to an unnamed American collector for around 12 million dollars. Suspended in a vat of formaldehyde and titled, <em>The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living<\/em>, the marinated 14-foot shark launched Hirst\u2019s lucrative art career in 1992. Now one of the richest and most famous of the postmodernist charlatans, Hirst laughs all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of The ThreePenny Opera, the musical theater production by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. That tale featured the anti-hero, Macheath, an efficient and cold blooded thug who fancied himself a businessman. In the play\u2019s most famous song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X7eO7MKEZAY&amp;ab_channel=ElenaKhassalevres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Ballad of Mack the Knife<\/em><\/a>, the notorious crimes of Macheath are evoked:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15316\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15316\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/great_white-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/great_white-1.jpg 1185w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/great_white-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/great_white-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/great_white-1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;&#8230; the shark has teeth like razors.&#8221; Photo: Olga Ernst.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSee the shark has teeth like razors, all can read his open face. And Macheath has got a knife, but not in such an obvious place.<\/p>\n<p>See the shark, how red his fins are, as he slashes at his prey. Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which give the minimum away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Brecht\u2019s play moralized on the havoc of a world controlled by money, a yarn still applicable\u2026 even when applied to the depredations of the art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourgeois art circles are buzzing with the news that the pickled shark by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an unnamed American collector for around 12 million dollars. Suspended in a vat of formaldehyde and titled, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, the marinated 14-foot shark launched Hirst\u2019s lucrative art career in 1992. 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