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Damien Hirst

June 2024

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    Digested week: Sondheim’s old pencils, dogs in prams and Christ on a bike

    Emma Brockes
    This week, a musical genius’s stuff goes on sale for absurd sums and a heatwave hits New York

May 2024

  • Tracey Emin, June 2023, South of France Studio, taken by TE creative director Harry Weller.

    The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

  • A Damien Hirst formaldehyde work

    Today in Focus
    Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up

  • Andy Warhol pictured in 1986 with a self portrait

    Brief letters
    Hirst, Warhol and a little artistic licence

  • Damien Hirst with a painting from The Currency collection.

    At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

March 2024

  • The American minimalist artist Carl Andre (centre) with his artwork Equivalent VIII, made from 120 fire bricks, at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1978.

    Brief letters
    Damien Hirst’s reconstructions had a precedent in Carl Andre’s bricks

  • Damien Hirst smiling in front of the shark sculpture during a party at the Palms casino resort in Las Vegas

    Damien Hirst shark that sold for about $8m is fourth 2017 work dated to 1990s

  • Jonathan Jones

    Damien Hirst’s shark changed my life. Now he has taken a chainsaw to his glorious past

    Jonathan Jones
  • Damien Hirst

    Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017

October 2023

  • A place to see individual galleries … the art fair has proved popular with the public since the inaugural event in 2003.

    Frieze at 20 – the rebellious pop-up that changed art fairs for good

    Twenty years on, London’s gathering of gallerists and collectors is big business but it began as a gamble inspired by the success of Tate Modern

September 2023

  • Painting by Aboudia

    Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022

  • A sculpture of a cow

    ‘Pauline is unique’: patron of Emin and Hirst sells off vast Hydra art collection

July 2023

  • The Bathtub, an artwork by Banksy

    An arty weekend in ...
    Banksy, Hirst and Emin come to town: an arty weekend in Newmarket, Suffolk

    The three big names and dozens more artists will be taking the reins in the home of horse racing for the largest contemporary art exhibition in the UK this year

June 2023

  • Emergency … Cradle’s glass baubles filled with lethal chlorine gas.

    ‘Dicing with death’: the lethal, terrifying art of Hamad Butt – and the evacuation it once caused

    Blending science and the supernatural, high art and gothic horror, Hamad Butt made work that was literally dangerous, in one case sparking fears of a gas leak. He is one of the stars of Tate Britain’s rehang

May 2023

  • Tate Britain rehang, installation view 2023.

    Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

    Tate Britain, London
    Once the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

December 2022

  • Ashley Bickerton for Obits curtesy of

    Ashley Bickerton obituary

    Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural world

October 2022

  • Damien Hirst burns some of his artworks in London, England.

    The Guardian view on Damien Hirst’s NFTs: posing a burning question

  • Damien Hirst.

    Creation, destruction, sensation: Damien Hirst’s burning desire to destroy art worth £10m

August 2022

  • Twisted firestarters … A torched effigy at Burning Man festival.

    Flaming heck! Damien Hirst is setting his art on fire – and he’s not the first

    From accidental conflagrations to planned incineration, nothing turns up the heat of art world commerce like a blaze

July 2022

  • Damien Hirst dot paintings to be burned as part of his The Currency project.

    Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings to show art as ‘currency’

    Artist famous for pickling dead animals in the 1990s to destroy the artworks at his London gallery
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