Damien Hirst

The article I read about in the Art section of The Independent was about a famous artist, Damien Hirst and hie fued with a another artist. It all started when the younger artist, named Cartrain, borrowed a very specific idea from Hirst and proceeded to have the pieces of art sold on a art collection website. Hirst contacted the website and the art works were taken off the market. In return, Cartrain went to Tate Britain where Hirst's Pharmacy was on exhibit and ran off with a pack of pencils. According to the article, the pencils taken from the sculpture are worth millions of pounds. Hirst has taken legal action and Cartrain was arrested and awaits trail. If he is convicted, this will be one of the "highest value modern art thefts in Britain."

This article was quite amusing. I am sure that Damien Hirst is not amused but obviously people will go to great lengths to save their ideas. I understand that what Cartrain did was stealing, in both Hirst's ideas and his physical artwork but I am sure this whole situation could have been avoided if they had only talked to each other. Like the article said, now a days there aren't that many art thefts in the world but they are always fascinating. If Hirst thought of it this way, the theft got his sculpture more publicity than it ever could have.