The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
A 21st Century Bestiary
16 September 2008
Pimping the shark
Damien Hirst
sells
The Kingdom
for £9.6m. Peter Conrad
thinks
this is cool. Eat your art out,
Piero Manzoni
.
(Meanwhile, a call for a
clampdown on finning
. See too
Sharks short shock
.)
P.S. 18 Sep: Clive Crook
gets it
.
P.S. 20 Oct:
this
.
Shark fins, probably heading for East Asian stomachs. About 100 million sharks are slaughtered every year. About thirty million of those are finned for soups etc. Photo:
Oceana
.
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