Damien Hirst

This week White Cube Gallery exhibited a new collection of paintings by Damien Hirst entitled "Two Weeks One Summer." To say the exhibition was not we...

Your pockets might not need to be as deep as François Pinault's or Victor Pinchuk's to get your hands on a genuine Damien Hirst skull. OK, you'll hav...

LONDON — A festival of fire at Stonehenge. Acrobatic displays in cathedral naves. String quartets in helicopters. London Olympic organizers out...

Hirst's enormous financial success, and the conspicuous delight he takes in it, have produced anguish, envy and outright hostility among many in England's staid and priggish art world, who cling to the ancient ideal that artists should be secular priests, who take vows of poverty and regard money as a source of corruption.

Contemporary art is no longer and can no longer be the special terrain of the aesthetic courtesans to remote powerful elites: it is the collective carnival gathering in which we are inundated by the sounds, sights and symbols of our current collective madness.

As the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood seemingly indulged in a lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. Yet when it comes to art, the wil...

It is one of those questions we hear over and over but rarely thoughtfully answer: What do you want to do before you die? Now The Huffington Post is c...

Damien Hirst is the art world's Marmite. You love him, or you hate him. Many have lambasted the forty something British artist for his use of shock ta...

Damien Hirst is the most important, expensive bloodthirsty artist in the world and Wednesday his show opens at the Tate Gallery in London and runs through September.

I am astonished that our fickle art world has allowed him gracious passage for over 20 years. Hirst's ability to transform himself into a branded personality is not novel, nor are his indulgent means of artistic creation.

The exhibition spans two decades. On display are unseen early works as well as later works such as the famous shark in formaldehyde and the notorious diamond skull. Among the highlights is the piece "In and Out of Love" (1991), consisting of a room full of live butterflies.

Ever since Marcel Duchamp hung a toilet bowl in a museum gallery, the overlap between artists and pranksters cannot be denied. Whether done by art...

An autograph book containing a sketch of a shark drawn by Damien Hirst has sold for £4,664 at auction. The doodle references the artist's famous w...

The story of art in the past century is in large part one of young iconoclastic innovators breaking every significant rule, tradition, or convention that they could identify.

Artist Peter Tunney is perhaps the most positive person on the planet. So it's a surprise to find that Tunney's most recent series involves skulls.

Art critics, in one sense, play a role in the art world not unlike the role played by transistors in the electronic world. Transistors amplify signals. Critics are kind of like this, as viewed from the perspective of broke-ass artists.

Damien Hirst is the leading flim-flam man of the contemporary art scene, perhaps the all-time greatest. That alone makes him worth noting, if not entirely admiring.

Can Damien Hirst use his media savvy and sprawling, globe-spanning ambitions -- recently on view in his critically reviled "Spot Painting" show at Gag...

In the late 1980s a group of Young British Artists (or YBAs) like Damien Hurst, Tracey Emin, and Gavin Turk himself, began consistently challenging accepted artistic ideals.

Last week, when a painting student dropped by my office with a newspaper clipping of one of Damien's Hirst's spot paintings I hit a patch of real despair. In an art world where a figure like Hirst can rise to the top, who needs painting classes?

When Jeff Koons debuted his "Made In Heaven"series, the art world gasped at the nerve of the sculptor who had made his name with reproductions of Mich...

Hennessy Youngman is the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued prankster gangster behind the YouTube series 'Art Thoughtz.' The videos feature Youngman "waxin' po...

I sometimes don't even realize how much my life revolves around art. So I thought I'd write it down -- maybe shed a little light on the life of a New York artist.

Some people say museums are a bore. This is museum probably not what they are referring to when they make such a careless statement. Art, celebriti...

Color is a simple enough idea, but sometimes in a scene filled with swollen egos and overly conceptual work we tend to forget the beauty inherent in s...