stackyFACTSIn the ultimate display of throwing money into a void, hedge fund manager Steve Cohen bought Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' for $1.2 million.
In the ultimate display of throwing money into a void, hedge fund manager Steve Cohen bought Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' for $1.2 million. It was literally just a tiger shark rotting in a tank of formaldehyde. When the shark inevitably decayed into a cloudy, disgusting mess, Hirst's team just threw it out and caught a new one. High-end art is essentially just tax evasion with better PR.
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