After it sold for 96% less on Monday than the last time it turned up at auction, I went deep into the backstory of one of Dan Colen's dumbest paintings, Holy Shit, which truly has barreled through the art world over the last 20 years, and which turns out to be three, four, or possibly even five, nearly identical paintings.
Colen-oscopy: Towards a Complete History of Holy Shit
















