Art market blogger
Lindsay Pollock just got a hold of
Damien Hirst's Christmas card (above), which, thankfully, looks nothing like a Hirst artwork because he hired Bali-based artist
Ashley Bickerton (whose most recent solo NYC show was at
Lehmann Maupin in Chelsea in spring 2008) to design and photograph the family portrait. This proves,
once again, that artists' holiday greeting cards are invariably cooler and more whimsical than yours and mine. Here, Hirst, his partner Maia Norman, and their kids Connor, Cassius (!) and Cyrus (!!), smile psychotically from behind Bickerton's trademark psychedelic, postcolonial makeup and costumes, which, though not exactly Christmas-y, are decidedly, parodically more cheerful than tanks of formaldehyde. (
Artinfo)
