World's Richest Artist Splits With World's Richest Gallery

World's Richest Artist Splits With World's Richest Gallery
Artist Damien Hirst pictured in front of his work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark preserved in formaldehyde, at his retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.
Artist Damien Hirst pictured in front of his work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark preserved in formaldehyde, at his retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.

Damien Hirst--the insanely wealthy British artist-provocateur famous for encasing a dead shark in formaldehyde--has severed ties with the well-heeled Gagosian Gallery, which represented him for the last 17 years. Hirst's abrupt and unexpected departure leaves him without gallery representation in New York City.

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