Quote of Note | Calvin Tomkins

“A month before Damien Hirst‘s retrospective opened at Tate Modern in early April, hundreds of his spot paintings filled all eleven Gagosian galleries worldwide, including the two in London. [Larry] Gagosian gave a party for Hirst at the Arts Club on Dover Street, and invited an eclectic mix of artists, dealers, and big-money types, along with the sort of upper-class socialites who now want to be associated with contemporary art—people like David Cholmondely, the current Great Chamberlain, who walks backward before the Queen when she opens Parliament.