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Damien Hirst Plastic Skull: Yours for $58K

Kevin Spak — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:19:05 CDT

We get it. You've always dreamed of owning Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted human skull , or maybe his diamond-encrusted baby skull , but you just don't have the scratch. Well if you swing by Damien Hirst's new exhibit at the Tate Modern, you can now have the next best thing: a plastic skull...

Damien Hirst's Latest: Bejeweled Baby Skull

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:47:06 CST

Has bad-boy British artist Damien Hirst finally gone too far? The head of a parenting group says his latest work, a baby skull covered in platinum and bejeweled with 8,000 diamonds, will be “deeply disturbing” to bereaved parents. The skull used in For Heaven’s Sake is believed to be...

Morrissey Wants Damien Hirst's Head 'Kept in a Bag'

Will McCahill — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:09:00 CDT

Damien Hirst’s artwork can be inscrutable to some, but count moody Morrissey as an outright hater. “Hirst’s head should be kept in a bag” for his use of dead animals, the singer opines in Interview —where he’s actually the one supposedly asking the questions of artist Linder Sterling.

9 Other Pricey Art Mishaps

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:37:43 CST

The art student who tripped and tore a hole in a Picasso painting is probably fairly embarrassed—but will, perhaps, feel better knowing others can sympathize. The Independent lists nine other art catastrophes, some accidental and some not: Cy Twombly : A woman kissed one of his paintings, leaving it smeared...

Damien Hirst Paintings 'Shockingly Bad'

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:09:00 CDT

“Bad boy of British art" Damien Hirst decided to put his headline-grabbing, conceptual art projects aside and return to painting. Critics, however, are not impressed with the exhibition of 25 new paintings, which opened today: “There are many painters in evening classes much worse than Hirst,” writes Tom Lubbock in...

Strapped Art Market Preps for Auctions

Matt Cantor — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:21:01 CDT

After a 7-year boom, art auction houses are struggling as collectors hit hard by the recession close their wallets. Sotheby’s predicts it will pull in $179 million to $256 million at spring sales, compared to $742 million a year ago. As the spring events approach, auctioneers are employing an array...

Hirst Is Art World's Lehman

Jason Farago — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:21:01 CST

With the collapse of Lehman Brothers having opened an “anxious new era” in financial circles and among consumers at large, the auction that brought artist Damien Hirst $166 million on Sept. 15—the very day Lehman went bust—clearly marks the division, Martin Gayford writes for Bloomberg. By year’s end,...

Hirst: Art Is Overpriced

Matt Cantor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:39:01 CST

With the economic slowdown finally slamming into the art market, one of the world’s priciest living artists says art has become too costly anyway, the Independent reports. British multimillionaire Damien Hirst failed to sell a painting valued at some $3 million last week; in retrospect, he said, it “was overpriced,...

Hirst Auction Yields $199M

Nick McMaster — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:50:01 CDT

Damien Hirst sold 223 pieces of artwork for $199 million by the end of a two-day auction yesterday, shattering the record for most revenue in an auction of a single artist’s work, Forbes reports. The previous mark was held by Pablo Picasso, with 88 sold for $20 million in 1993....