Abstract
Greenspoon talks about names, arts and sports nowadays that applied the biblical phrase "Golden Calf." One example is Damien Hirst's Golden Calf sculpture, which consists of a tawny bull calf with hooves and horns of 18-carat-gold, preserved in formaldehyde inside a gold-plated tank raised on a Carrar marble plinth. As reported in some feature stories, Hirst was inspired by the Biblical account to produce what one writer (for the London Daily Telegraph) described as "a subtly mocking portrait of the billionaires who are likely to buy it, and a provocative statement on today's inflated contemporary art market."