‘This is art for the penthouses of oligarchs’ – Damien Hirst: Natural History review
The artist’s progress from raw young punk to pretentious money-lover is on show in this collection of formaldehyde works. Even the shark is getting very shrunken around the mouth
February 2022
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Surrealism goes global, artists open their studios and Damien Hirst shows a macabre master – the week in art
Empty shops could be studios for next Bacon or Hirst, says leading curator
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Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art
‘Damien Hirst stole my cherry blossom’: artist faces plagiarism claim number 16
January 2022
‘I make stars look interesting, not beautiful’: Anton Corbijn on his favourite portraits
First, a pickled shark. Next up for Damien Hirst, his ‘white elephant’ manor house
December 2021
From Bruegel’s boozers to Hirst’s horrific ashtray: what are the wildest parties in art?
Summon some Flemish yokels. Send for some Venetian aristocrats. Then open the ale and party to the sound of bagpipes … if you can’t get to a Christmas bash this year, come to art’s best knees-ups instead
November 2021
‘I went from having to borrow money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world
Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture?
October 2021
Painting is back in the frame … and the rising stars are mostly women
Two decades after Damien Hirst’s pickled cow, young artists have returned to traditional pigment on canvas
September 2021
Jack White review – an ecstatic rock’n’roll augury
Playing at the opening of the London outpost of his label Third Man, the former White Stripes frontman scintillatingly showed rock isn’t dead yet
July 2021
Damien Hirst on painting cherry blossom: ‘It’s taken me until I’m 55 to please my mum’
The former hell-raising, hard-partying YBA known for slicing animals in half is now painting trees in bloom. Has he lost his edge? And why is his hair blue?
May 2021
The reputation game: how authors try to control their image from beyond the grave
The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name
April 2021
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Haunted portraits, a lost church and the mystery of colour – the week in art
‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review
February 2021
Lockdown culture
Damien Hirst: 'I flirted with the idea of pickling people'
As a survey of his work opens amid the snow of St Moritz, the artist talks about his obsession with blood, his disconnection from the art world, and why he misses banter with his army of assistants
October 2020
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Tracey Emin steals a kiss and Damien Hirst resurrects the dead – the week in art
Damien Hirst review – just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
September 2020
From Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin: Soho's historic Colony Room Club – in pictures
Missing: the art that vanished from Soho's Colony Room
