There is butterfly wallpaper in the downstairs lavatory of the Georgian building that houses Damien Hirst’s London office. On the wall hangs a framed flyposter for the newspaper The Evening Standard that reads: HIRST’S £50M DIAMOND SKULL. Artwork in Hirst’s own office, up a flight of stairs, includes a photograph of Francis Bacon, a green Electric Chair by Andy Warhol, and a sculpture of Christ, likewise in an electric chair, by the fast-rising British artist Paul Fryer. The ensemble suggests two of the artist’s salient characteristics-his bumptiousness and his generosity of spirit-since, aside from Jeff Koons, I am aware of few other artists who display the work of their contemporaries and their juniors. But Hirst showed this godfather-ish streak early on when he put together “Freeze,” the July 1988 exhibition in a warehouse in London’s Docklands that showcased his fellow students at Goldsmiths College and played a significant part in creating the British art world as it is today.
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I’m really enjoying the energy that Steve Stoute is creating around his new book
The Tanning of America. He recently launched a
website to serve as a compliment to the release of the book on September 8th. You can see the big homey Steve Stoute live and direct on October 6th @ the
Influencer Conference 2011. (more…)
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Check out the article I penned on
Delphine Diallo in the latest issue of
Uptown Magazine in newsstands now. -YG (@Youngglobal)
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"During the past 10 years, six of the world’s fastest-growing economies have been in sub- Saharan Africa, according to the Economist magazine. Over the next five years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia may grow at an average of 7.2 percent annually, the Economist says. Over this period, the average African economy will outpace its counterpart in Asia. Africa has become an important emerging market and, compared with other regions, it has a relatively high rate of return on investments."
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We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin). In the common imagination, ideas come full-formed in a flash of brilliance, raining down like manna from some deity of inspiration. Teaching people how to be creative, on the other hand, is like teaching them how to be tall—that is, impossible.
These days, as global competition intensifies, it's more important than ever that companies figure out how to innovate if they are going to maintain their edge, or maintain their existence at all.
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