British shock artist Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull, cast in platinum from the head of a young 18th-century man (and featuring the man’s actual teeth), has been bought by an anonymous investment group for its full asking price of $100 million. Hirst, who financed the making of the skull himself, still owns a share of it and will oversee a currently planned world tour of the thing. As an indication of how rich he’s become, he can’t remember whether it cost 10 or 15 million pounds to make. (Yahoo)