Damien Hirst
The bombastic artist who once personified British cool has let us down with a timid restaurant rehash.
Brad and Angelina were there when, in 2009, the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, threw a party that saw Lady Gaga sing on a Damien Hirst-customized, pink grand piano.
The Qatar Museums Authority is thought to have spent $300 million on a Gauguin. Is the oil-rich country using art to obscure darker injustices?
Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed,’ with its detritus of cigarette butts, empty vodka bottles, and soiled underwear, was one of the best-known pieces of art in the 1990s. Now it's up for sale.
After discovering his Damien Hirst paintings were fakes, Florida pastor Kevin Sutherland continued to try to sell them…to an undercover cop. He’s now been sentenced to six months in jail.
Saatchi is bringing together artists from two continents that used to be united, exploring the playful works that obscure—and highlights—the conflicts faced by their modern societies.
In Miami, a man protested an Ai Wei Wei exhibit by replicating the artist's shattered vase piece…with an Ai Wei Wei original. He's not the only person to protest art by ruining it.