The works in the exhibition are all going to be the sale, but they are going to be far out of reach for most people. In the past, his works have sold for a minimum of about £600,000. For those who are unable to afford this, there are plenty of other products available based on the Spot artworks, including cufflinks and even tea towels. One of the more expensive items in the collection is a clock that is based on the artworks and retails for nearly £500.

The worldwide exhibition will showcase around 300 paintings which have been painted over the last 25 years. Many critics have criticised these works for being trivial and  uninteresting, but Mr Hirst hopes they are still going to be welcomed by the world and sell for his typically high prices.

Mr Hirst has commented, “I am an artist who is not afraid to try things and take risks. Often I go against the flow in the art world and do things that most people think will not work. For example, in 2008 when I sold 200 works at Sotheby’s, it was something that people thought was far too over the top but it worked and the sale was very successful. This is something that people can resent, especially the English.”

The sale in 2008 netted Mr Hirst over £100 million in the first two days of the auction, but there were rumours that he was manipulating the bids by having friends and business associates bid large amounts of money on the items to raise their value.

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The piece is called For Heaven’s Sake and displays a casting of a baby’s skull created from platinum, with over 7,000 pink and white diamonds mounted on it from the royal Bentley & Skinner jewellers.

It is part of a collection of his new works going on exhibit later in January in Hong Kong at the Gagosian Gallery. The exhibit will arrive in London later this year. There is no comment from the gallery in reply to the question of the cost of the work.

The child’s skull used as a model is thought to have been under two weeks in age and to have belonged to a 19^th century pathology collection the artist purchased.

Of course parents are outraged. Certain support groups for parents who have lost a child are the most up in arms.

The director of Hirst’s primary company for producing art, Judy Tyrrell of Science Ltd., agreed that it is a difficult theme. She replied that is was from an old Victorian collection, when they were fascinated with acquiring even the strangest of the strange. “Of course it is unusual and out of place in our eyes. I am a mother, myself. Yet I think it is bizarrely beautiful.”

Hirst’s artwork from 2007 called For the Love of God, was the second largest hired work of art made with diamonds in history, second only to the Crown Jewels of England. That piece by Hirst ran £50 million and was another skull covered in diamonds. It was also the costliest modern work of art.

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Although in the current recession it is no secret that artists are not ranked high on the list of professional millionaires, it is a little relieving at least to hear that this year professionals in the art world, were voted the most powerful.

The top placement went to Hans Ulrich Obrist who is the co-director of Exhibitions in the Kensington Serpentine Galley. Additionally, Obrit has been responsible for being curator of around 90 other European exhibitions over the course of his career.

In second place is Glenn D. Lowery who is the director of the New York Museum of Art, and is featured in the top three without even making an appearance on the list in previous years.

Rounding out the top three is Sir Nicolas Serota also a director at the Tate museum which proves that this year the power does not belong to the artists, but instead those who take charge of deciding which artists are featured in museums.

Editor of Art Review magazine stated that the top ten list reflects the fact that the art world demands a new level of flexibility and change which curators are able to deal with appropriately compared to artists.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009,

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The exhibition will contain some of the 2008 Damien Hirst Sotheby’s auction as well as some of the explicit works from Jeff Koons’s collection in which the artist is seen with his ex wife La Cicciolina in some porn-esque settings.

The common thread among all the pieces in the show is that most of good art has its roots in good business.

Of course, the viewpoint is highly controversial given that the entire collection could be described as commercial given the fact that the work by Hirst collected 110million quid at auction.

Koons defends his pieces however as well as the entire theme of Pop Life by stating that artists do not primarily think about making money, as that is just a simple part of life, but instead it is the power of creating art that draws artists in the field.

He stated that artists have always made money and gained political as well as economic power since the time of the monarchs and churches and that to see any type of non-commercial art you have to look back prior to the 19th century.

Pop Life will open on Thursday to the public and also contains work from Cosey Fanni Tutti who for a short time was a pornographic model as part of her artistic expression.

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