Damien Hirst market soars even as the banks crash
As experienced art dealers discussed the £95.6m sale of 233 new works by Damien Hirst (b.1965), it was the word 'celebrity' that cropped up the most to explain the phenomenal prices seen at the Beautiful Inside my Head Forever sale.
Like anything that can be traded, art is only worth what someone is prepared to pay, and enough peop…