10/20/2026
Art History Pharmacy Technician Day: Pharmacy (1992) by Damien Hirst: A room-sized installation that mimics a fully stocked, clinical modern drugstore. It features floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted shelves with pharmaceutical packaging, empty bottles, and traditional apothecary water-and-food-coloring jars. Hirst arranged the medicines by body function (head ailments at the top, stomach in the middle, feet at the bottom) to explore consumerism, human mortality, and our faith in medicine as a substitute for religion