
— THE BIG STORY —
Imagine if Tom Cruise had been suddenly and dramatically abandoned this June by not only his wife Katie Holmes but also two other wives, say Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz. Adjusted to the dimensions of the art world, that might generate about the scale of perfervid speculation and bug-eyed interest that we saw explode around Gagosian Gallery this week when Damien Hirst joined Jeff Koons and Yayoi Kusama in an extraordinary exodus of titanic mega-artists from the blue-chip gallery. What’s going on here? In Hirst’s case, at least, there are multiple possible motives. READ MORE