Art Imitates Life, Perhaps Too Closely: “(London) — An installation

that the popular and pricey British

artist Damien Hirst assembled in the

window of a Mayfair gallery on Tuesday

was dismantled and discarded the same

night by a cleaning man who said he

thought it was garbage.

The work — a collection of half-full coffee

cups, ashtrays with cigarette butts, empty

beer bottles, a paint-smeared palette, an

easel, a ladder, paintbrushes, candy

wrappers and newspaper pages strewn

about the floor — was the centerpiece of

an exhibition of limited-edition art that the

Eyestorm Gallery.” NY Times [“FMHreader”, “FMHreader”]