There's a hell of a lot of money in art - but the artists don't get it," grumbles Damien Hirst, giving himself a thoroughly good scratch through the faded brown T-shirt he has decided to wear to Sotheby's today. "What I find is unfair is the Van Gogh thing. The artist doesn't make any money, but everyone else does." That, at least, was how it used to be before Hirst himself entered the lists. Now the ratios appear to be changing. If things go according to plan - and most of the ridiculous stunts Hirst comes up with work out surprisingly well - then, a fortnight from now, the old way of making pots of money from art will look as out of date as last year's winner of the Turner Prize.
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