Bizarrer

They too have style quotient

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing
Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in
his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins
whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or
1.17 millimeters in diameter.

British artist Damien Hirst, notorious for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, unveiled his latest work Friday: a 50 million pound (74 million euro) diamond-encrusted cast of a human skull.

The work, entitled “For The Love Of God,” is a platinum cast of an 18th century skull studded with 8,601 diamonds, which his representatives say were ethically-sourced.

Hirst said he hoped that the work would go on show at the British Museum in London, alongside an Aztec turquoise skull which inspired it.

The skull is on display alongside other works at London’s White Cube Mason’s Yard amid tight security from June 3 to July 7.

Hirst told reporters as the work was unveiled: “I’ve stopped worrying about what art is. If it’s in an art gallery on the wall or the floor, it’s probably art.”

Asked what his next work would be, he joked: “Two diamond skeletons shagging . “Death is a central theme in much of Hirst’s work