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Behind the scenes

Here are two things you won't be seeing in our Gallery shop any time soon.

First from the Art Gallery of New South Wales comes this ironic - well we certainly hope it's ironic - statement on art as commodity.

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And from the Tate Gallery comes product from the recently opened monster Damien Hirst retrospective.

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BarbieKlimt will cost you a mere $79, the Hirst skull, top right in the photo above, will set you back ₤36,800.

No, that is not a mistake. Thirty-six thousand eight hundred pounds sterling - for a plastic skull.

Read more about the skull.

Read more about Barbie.