From afternoon tea to the morning after: everything you always wanted to know about London hotels* (*but were afraid to ask)
20.9.11
Question: what has 45 Park Lane got on the wall at CUT?
Well, if you're an artistic ignoramus like me, you'd be drawn over by the bright colours, have a good look at it and decide that the slightly macabre subject matter (dead butterflies that have basically been hung, drawn and quartered to make pretty shapes) and illegible signature that begins with a D for its first name and ends with a T for its second, and think, ooh, could this be Damien Hirst?
But if you're a waitress at CUT, in 45 Park Lane, where the pictures are hung, you'll take one look, shrug, and say, "Oh, I really don't know." And then smile, and say that they're pretty, though, aren't they?
And then the artistic ignoramus will go home, Google "Damien Hirst 45 Park Lane" and turn up articles like this, informing them that there are 16 of these works from Hirst's Psalms series, scattered around CUT.
And they will lose a little faith in the staff of CUT, because surely they should be aware that their walls are strewn with work by one of the most famous artists in the living world, right? Surely.
Hopefully the waitress will do a little Googling of her own, soon. For what it's worth, I thought the pictures were beautiful. Even when I'd decided that, if the waitress didn't know what they were, they couldn't possibly be Damien Hirst.
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