Damien Hirst has been accused of stealing the idea to use live flies in the breakthrough artwork that propelled him to success. The 60-year-old conceptual creator’s piece A Thousand Years is alleged ...

Damien Hirst has given his verdict on Comedian, the divisive work of art by Maurizio Cattelan, which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary on ...

The artist Damien Hirst is known to stir up controversy. He's submerged a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, ditto a bisected cow and calf, and in an installation called "In and Out of Love," at the ...

Loved and hated in equal measure, Damien Hirst has always embodied the full-throttle provocation of the Young British Artists—fun, controversial and unapologetically brash. Though his market has seen ...

The Damien Hirst debacle regarding the dating of his artwork continues. This past March, it was reported that the British artist had misattributed several of his formaldehyde sculptures bearing sharks ...

English artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965) first rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Young British Artists (YBAs), a loose group of artists operating in London, many of whom ...

As it turns out, this news article was actually published in 2009. Boogie Woogie the movie opened the same year. This is a total blogging mishap, so I apologize for the confusion! I’m in the process ...

The hole in the 48-year-old artist’s memory is likely the result of his early drug addiction. After winning the Turner Prize, Hirst allegedly blew the £20,000 award in one night; he later began ...

Two beer cans were displayed in a Dutch museum. Then they were accidentally thrown out. By Victor Mather Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion ...