The party: Damien Hirst’s “Superstition” show opening
The place: The Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
The people: Courtney Love, Kirsten Dunst, Flea, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brandon Davis
The art: 28 giant canvases with butterflies arranged to resemble stained glass windows
The butterflies: Dead. As dead, if not deader, than Hirst’s sharks, cows, and lambs in formaldehyde
The drinks: None. You’d think that at $500,000 a canvas with all 28 sold, a couple of bottles of cheap red could be found
What not to wear: Butterfly print. Three offenders spotted, two women, one man. Also one piled-high hairdo full of butterfly clips, causing her to look as if she’d scraped her head against one of Hirst’s canvases
(Text & photos by Steven Corfe; guy in the hat is Damien Hirst)
