Damien Hirst

Image credit: “Gold Thioglucose” by Damien Hirst – Copyright Damien Hirst, Image courtesy Other Criteria The Zoo Art Fair held in October each year, aims to introduce emerging contemporary artists to collectors, curators, critics, dealers, artists and art enthusiasts. This year, from a group of Victorian industrial warehouses in London’s East End, fifty contemporary arts organizations and practitioners showcased the next generation of art professionals through a series of exhibitions, solo shows and stand presentations. The new editions area Most notably, this year Zoo Art Fair launched a new area dedicated to artists’ limited editions and multiples. The Editions section featured work from a ... Read Full Story

Damien Hirst, once the enfant terrible of the British art world, has been slammed as simply terrible for his latest work, which he -- shock, horror -- painted himself. The scathing reviews were compounded by a new survey showing he has plummeted nearly 50 places down a ranking of the contemporary art world's most powerful movers and shakers. One of London's most traditional art galleries, best known for housing works by the likes of Velazquez and Titian, will show "No Love Lost", a collection of 25 paintings, many featuring dark depictions of human skulls and shark bones. But unlike the work which first brought ... Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters) - British artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills. Now one of the world's most successful living artists has returned to more traditional territory of painting, and this time, unlike his mass-produced canvases covered in colored spots, the 44-year-old actually executed them himself. Hirst has displayed 25 new paintings, mostly featuring white skulls on blue-black backgrounds, at London's Wallace Collection, a family collection of old masters housed in gilded, silk-walled opulence. "It's quite funny isn't it? You kind of think you've done all of that formaldehyde work, and ... Read Full Story

One of London's most traditional art galleries is staging an exhibition of works by the enfant terrible of British art, Damien Hirst, from Wednesday. The Wallace Collection, best known for housing works by the likes of Velazquez and Titian, will show "No Love Lost", a collection of 25 paintings, many of which feature dark depictions of human skulls and shark bones. Hirst said he found it "quite funny" that art lovers were surprised he was creating paintings rather than preserving animals in formaldehyde, the style which brought him fame in the 1990s. "You kind of think that you've done all that formaldehyde work and ... Read Full Story

SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - South Korean auction house Seoul Auction is hoping to interest Chinese and other Asian collectors in modern Western and contemporary art, with the lofty aim of beating Sotheby's and Christie's in the region. The 11-year-old auction house, which earlier this year sold British artist Damien Hirst's first work in Asia, is keen to build a regional presence through Hong Kong auctions of Western and Asian works, and in a market where antiques, rather than paintings, represent 60 percent of transaction volume. Jun Lee, who heads Seoul Auction Co Ltd, said he has seen strong demand from Taiwan, Indonesia and South ... Read Full Story