Post-Commercial: Beyond Fake Opposites*
By Toke Lykkeberg
“The moment the artist thinks of money, he loses his sense of beauty,”1 wrote Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot in 1781. And young British artist Damien Hirst reiterated in 2006: “Sometimes, if a piece is worth too much money, you can’t see the art on the wall for the dollar signs.”2 The [...]
