Hirst’s prices “were very much at their strongest around 2007-2008,” says Cheyenne Westphal, the head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s during the 2008 Hirst auction and now global chairman ...

Damien Hirst is turning a new page with a $40 million private museum in London, where he will curate and display highlights from his vast art collection. He's launching a museum dedicated to his ...

Hirst-style denunciations of their simple-minded, sensational fatuity merely repeated and recycled the exhausted popular cliché of Picasso, Matisse and indeed all modern art as a mercenary hoax ...

A work by Damien Hirst on loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art is visually stunning. Designed to resemble a trio of stained-glass windows from a Gothic cathedral, it almost seems to emit light.

Gold, diamonds, art -- I think they are equal,’ Hirst countered while speaking to journalists outside the Tate Modern gallery, which is hosting a Hirst retrospective that opens this week. ‘I ...

The naughty imp of the contemporary British art scene is known for a dark and incubus-like sense of humor. If there were any artist who might pull some sort of stunt like this on purpose, he ...

Damien Hirst's Mortuary (2003-4), ... Hirst has made art from dead flies, ... The unvarnished presentation of death is a hoary modern theme, and, ...

Hirst has always divided opinion, and the debate has been reignited by his first major British retrospective, which is on exhibit at London's Tate Modern. Art critic Julian Spalding recently ...

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 ...

An art collector’s bargain buy more than 30 years ago now stands to bring in millions at auction in February. The sculptural work by artist-provocateur Damien Hirst, titled “Bodies,&#82… ...