The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has briefed the nation on COVID19 in front of a 'Spin Art' painting by YBA artist Damien Hirst. The painting chosen from the Government Art Collection is in-situ in the former Culture Secretary's office. The painting was donated to...
Damien Hirst’s show Mandalas, at White Cube Mason’s Yard, has already attracted indignant commentary in The Times. Rachel Campbell-Johnson’s review, which covered the best part of two facing pages, carried the indignant headline: “I, for one, would be ashamed to own...
After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait Gallery returns to familiar territory with a show devoted to Thomas Gainsborough, by general consensus one of the most...
Sotheby’s, London, have sold the collection of Damien Hirst's business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy for a total of £10,088,125 million, surpassing its pre-sale estimate (£5.2-7.3 million), with a sell-through rate of 92% and participants from...
Berlin-based artist Martin Eder (b.1968, Augsburg), will feature major new paintings alongside work spanning over a decade of Eder’s career this Autumn at the Newport Street Gallery. Eder’s paintings examine beauty and ugliness, depicting kittens and wide-eyed puppies...
Last week I was a guest at the magnificent Houghton Hall, one of the most impressive Palladian houses in Britain. This is a house steeped in history and surprisingly still in the hands of the original descendants of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of...
Damien Hirst will be the next artist to take over Houghton Hall for their Spring/Summer exhibition. Colour Space Paintings and Outdoor Sculptures is the title of a new show to be held at this magnificent stately home, in Norfolk. The exhibition will feature a new...
Damien Hirst the Turner Prize-winning former YBA has unveiled a sample of his evolving painting style, and it's not Bacon inspired like his skull series nor is it exotic like his 'Parrot' paintings. The new works hark back to his original 'Spot' canvases painted in...
Damien Hirst’s has released a mocumentary film on Netflix following the storyline of his Disney-like exhibition titled “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” which opened to the public on April 9th, 2017, during the 57th Venice Biennale. The exhibition...