More and more, Hirst’s thriving pop presence and giant market share have left him looking like the single greatest heir to Andy Warhol—and to Warhol’s pioneering collapse of art and artist and price tag into a single “social sculpture,” in the words of the American writer Jack Bankowsky. In 2009, Bankowsky helped put together a Tate show called “Pop Life,” in which he argued that, already in the 1960s, Warhol had made the leap from standard pop art, whose pictures simply showed us our commodified culture, to a new kind of art that combined marketing and buying and selling into part of the artwork itself.text: Blake Gopnik for Newsweek/The Daily Beastimage: Michael Birt for Newsweek 
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More and more, Hirst’s thriving pop presence and giant market share have left him looking like the single greatest heir to Andy Warhol—and to Warhol’s pioneering collapse of art and artist and price tag into a single “social sculpture,” in the words of the American writer Jack Bankowsky. In 2009, Bankowsky helped put together a Tate show called “Pop Life,” in which he argued that, already in the 1960s, Warhol had made the leap from standard pop art, whose pictures simply showed us our commodified culture, to a new kind of art that combined marketing and buying and selling into part of the artwork itself.

text: Blake Gopnik for Newsweek/The Daily Beast
image: Michael Birt for Newsweek