Boring 'Art' News

Boring "art" news in brief. Picasso's Sylvette (1954) fetches a record $6.9m Aussie dollars (£3.32m) in Sidney, making it the most exorbitant art rip-off ever to be perpetrated at auction in the Land of Oz (title link). Yawn. Back in Blighty, Moneybags Hirst is to flog his latest load of tosh at a Sotheby's London auction in September. The main lot is The Golden Calf. You guessed it: a calf in formaldehyde crowned by a solid gold disc. Yawn. (CLICK if you must.)