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| Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 |
You’ve probably heard of Damien Hirst — a young, very controversial British artist who’s most well known for his 1991 sculpture The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living… a.k.a. that sculpture of a shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde. Now’s your chance to see this huge sculpture (complete with a freshly-preserved tiger shark for the occasion) at, of all places, the usually conservative Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in late August. It’s not permanent, so get to the Met within three years. I’ll certainly be checking it out this fall, albeit on an empty stomach…
Press Release from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wikipedia for more information on Damien Hirst
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