Who lives in a house like this? Damien Hirst has received the green light from Ilfracombe a North Devon local council to build 750 homes, a school, playgrounds, shops, offices and a health centre. The project, which is backed by the artist and known as the Southern...
The inaugural John Hoyland Scholarship has been launched at the Chelsea College of Arts in memory of the late John Hoyland, one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. It is hoped the scholarship will encourage students from less privileged backgrounds to apply...
A work of art by the best known YBA artist Damien Hirst is to be offered for sale at Sotheby's in Doha, Qatar, on 13th October 2014. Carrying a price estimate of $1,000,000–1,500,000 'Tranquility' explores the subject of the struggle between life and...
Science Ltd, Damien Hirst's company and authentication board are demanding the return of a wall mural that once belonged to the son of well known patrons of the arts, Sir John and Lady Ritblat. The work of art, titled Bombay Mix, was commissioned in 1988 and is...
The largest bottle ever produced of English sparkling wine by the award winning Kent-based winery Chapel Down, has been signed by four leading contemporary British artists and will be sold at Christie’s ‘Out of the Ordinary’ auction on 3 September...
A self-proclaimed US pastor has been given a six month jail sentence for attempting to sell fake Damien Hirst spin art paintings. He was arrested after he tried to flog the work to an undercover policeman.Kevin Sutherland, of the Mosaic Miami Church in Florida, bought...
YBA artist Damien Hirst has donated a vitrine with a gilded woolly mammoth skeleton that has been gilded in 24 karat gold to be auctioned off at the annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala this week. The auction takes place at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in the South of...
A monumental bronze sculpture, by the British artist Damien Hirst, known as The Virgin Mother, has been covered up with a tarpaulin after neighbours complained that it was unfit to be erected in a conservation area. The statue, similar to Ilfracombe's 'Verity'...
The YBA British artist Damien Hirst is exhibiting a series of paintings, not exactly critically acclaimed in the UK, for the first time in Austria, at The Arnulf Rainer Museum in the Frauenbad Baden. Hirst's series "Two Weeks One Summer" will come together with...