What The F*** Is A Million Bucks!

Art Marcovici has probably just put, who I'd consider the previous king of ostentatious pieces of art, Damien Hirst in check mate with this grandiose display of capitalism. The piece “One Billion Dollars” consists of 10 million 100 USD notes on 12 standard pallets totalling $1,000,000,000. Coming to an art gallery nowhere near the hood soon! WOW…

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The World's Most Expensive (Living) Artist.

Despite the economy being in the shitter folks are still making it rain, and one of those folks is British artist Damien Hirst. Pictured above is a life-sized, platinum skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds totaling 1,106.18 carats, the piece is intended to be a celebration of life according to Hirst. The asking original price was $99 million, and was part of the collection auctioned over 2 days at Sotheby's in London. The two day haul brought in over $200 million catapulting Mr. Hirst to a prestige level of, dare I say, Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt.

More photos of some of his work after the jump.
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