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Damien Hirst Seeks Destruction of Early Spot Painting
Damien Hirst has demanded that an early spot painting be returned to him and destroyed after its current owner sought to sell it, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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Interview
Hirst Forgery Juror Speaks
A Florida pastor's recent conviction for selling forged Damien Hirst spin paintings provided an absurdist twist to the tired art-scam narrative. Witness: a clergyman debunked by Science Ltd. (the name of Hirst's studio).
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Pastor Convicted for Selling Fake Damien Hirsts
Kevin Sutherland, the Florida pastor on trial for attempting to sell counterfeit Damien Hirst works, has been convicted in New York State Supreme Court. Jurors found Sutherland guilty of attempted grand larceny in the second degree.
Opinion
The Art of Nonfiction with Damien Hirst
Who says you actually have to remember your life to write about it? Damien Hirst has announced he is publishing his autobiography, despite the fact friends say the enfant terrible of enfants terribles (the Young British Artists) can’t remember a 10-year period that began in his 20s, according to the
Art
What Does It Mean to Be a Cultural Disrupter?
Coverage of the visual arts in the New York Times hit a new low last weekend in its Arts & Leisure feature, “The Disrupters,” a roundup of interviews with “people who broke the rules” during 2013, “a year of cultural upheaval.”
Art
Moral Distortions: Versailles, Qatar, and Kings
With inadvertent timeliness, a retrospective of the world’s richest artist opened in one of the world’s richest cities in the middle of the run of Robert Polidori’s elegiac photography exhibition, Versailles.
Opinion
The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
Art
Art and Its Surrogates: Allan McCollum at Petzel Gallery
Allan McCollum is the author of a story describing a character that Damien Hirst embodies.
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Damien Hirst's New Studio Complex Is Called "Science"
While his toxic, formaldehyde-based work may not be the most environmentally friendly art production in the world, Damien Hirst's new personal studio and gallery in Stroud, England — where his team will be plunging ever more creatures into preservatives — is being designed by a small, eco–conscious
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One of World's Biggest Art Collectors Charged With Insider Trading
In a statement released earlier this afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital with supervising, and profiting from, the insider trading of two of his employees. The move followed years of severe scrutiny for the Connecticut-based hedge fund m
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Miami Pastor Indicted after Sending Fake Damien Hirst Paintings to Sotheby's
Damien Hirst’s Spot and Spin series of paintings might look like endless repetitions of the same thing, but, unfortunately for one Miami pastor, it’s still possible to tell a real from a fake. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has indicted Kevin Sutherland on charges of attempted grand larceny
Interview
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks About the Womb, Damien Hirst, Acid, and Yoko Ono
"I'm mostly a visual artist, I think," Wayne Coyne told me in a recent phone conversation. That the frontman of The Flaming Lips, one of the biggest experimental rock groups out there, sees himself as a visual creator more than a musician is not too surprising. This is after all the band that's land