NewsArt market
NFT breakthrough: Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin creates 99% energy efficient blockchain—and Damien Hirst is its first artist
Hirst launches the Palm platform with a drop of 10,000 works on paper linked to NFTs that “explore the boundaries of art and currency”
NewsExhibitions
Damien Hirst’s shipwreck treasure trove to go on show beside Galleria Borghese's classical works in Rome
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable divided the critics when the sprawling exhibition launched in Venice in 2017
BlogDiary
Damien Hirst in his own words—artist presents walk-through tour of his early works on Instagram
BlogBook Club
What was the best art book you read in 2020? The Art Newspaper team reveals its favourite publications
From the catalogue for a controversial Guston show to a four-volume tome on Leonardo Da Vinci—and some lighter reads too
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst installs giant sculpture in middle of frozen St. Moritz Lake
UK artist is showing more than 40 works in his Mental Escapology exhibition in the Alpine Swiss city
BlogDiary
Frieze Week treats from Sarabande's new gallery space to Damien Hirst's sweet Saatchi memories
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery
NewsArt market
Damien Hirst to open huge exhibition of more than 50 early works at Newport Street Gallery
Pickled sharks, medicine cabinets and spot paintings from the artist's own collection will go on show—although none are for sale
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst offers to swap any work for viral duct-tape banana—but Maurizio Cattelan says no
Curator Francesco Bonami has created his own version for the British artist as a consolation prize
NewsCoronavirus resources
Some of the best places to buy art for a good cause
During the pandemic, buying art delivers the double whammy of donating to charity and owning a work by artists including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Chantal Joffe
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Damien Hirst makes butterfly rainbow for the NHS, while Mark Titchner's uplifting posters pop-up around the UK
BlogDiary
On the block at Sotheby’s: David Bowie’s wallpaper featuring Lucian Freud nude—and emasculated minotaurs
BlogDiary
Master of spin? UK health secretary delivers Covid-19 “battle plan” in front of Damien Hirst's painting
BlogDiary
Stratospheric diamonds, rotting sharks and buying Jeff Koons: Damien Hirst answers 100 questions on Instagram
AnalysisArt market
Phillips’s sale reveals contemporary art's hottest stars but still misses its low estimate
Auction results this week are expected to be down by almost a quarter signalling a "low tide" in London
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst medicine cabinet bought for £600 goes on sale for over £1m
Softer YBA market faces test as collection amassed by London bond trader goes under the hammer at Phillips next month
NewsArtists
Damien Hirst sculptures undergo restoration in Gloucestershire ahead of retrospective
Multi-million-pound works spotted outside artist's Stroud studio complex
BlogDiary
On the brandwagon: artists transform trainers and hatch hoodies
BlogIn the frame
Still a Sensation? Norman Rosenthal co-organises show of new Brit art in Venice
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst’s Venice sculptures to remain part of Palms casino’s collection despite Kaos club closing
The colossal works were part of a $690m overhaul of the Las Vegas resort
NewsExhibitions
Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossom paintings to go on show at the Fondation Cartier in Paris next year
Former YBA has been back in the studio painting for the past two years
NewsFrieze London 2019
Something in the stars? Art world goes spiritual
With artists and galleries embracing the new age, is there a commercial pull, too?
BlogIn the frame
Time magazine’s top 100 destinations list includes Damien Hirst’s $100,000-per-night Las Vegas suite
InterviewDamien Hirst
Blossoming artist: Damien Hirst on returning to the studio, fluorescent florals and the 'muppets' in government
Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death
BlogIn the frame
Ey up: Damien Hirst will allas luv t’Yorkshire
BlogIn the frame
Pop Art: George Michael’s YBA collection goes on the block
NewsArt market
Damien Hirst scales back business activities to focus on making art
The former YBA has laid off 50 staff and bought a £40m studio in Soho, opening next year
AnalysisArt market
Rolling with the punches: how the art market bounced back
In 2008, Damien Hirst sold £111m of art as Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a financial crisis. A decade on, what has changed?
BlogIn the frame
Kittens, poodles and nudes: Martin Eder’s 'beauty in filth'
NewsArt market
Damien Hirst’s former manager Frank Dunphy to sell art collection
Sotheby’s auction includes personal works by Hirst gifted to Dunphy, or sketched on the back of restaurant menus
NewsArt market
A Saatchi for the next generation? Damien Hirst commissions 21 works by emerging artists for new show
Artist mentored Boo Saville, Helen Beard and Sadie Laska, allowing them to create their largest pieces to date in his studios for Newport Street Gallery show
BlogIn the frame
Hirst shark—and Venice shipwreck piece—installed in Las Vegas casino
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Then & Now: boom, bust and rebirth of Damien Hirst
How The Art Newspaper has covered the artist's bullish decadence
NewsDamien Hirst
First glimpse of Damien Hirst's new series of 'Bonnard-inspired' paintings
Pointillist works are due to go on show at Gagosian gallery in Los Angeles next month
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst to spotify Houghton Hall
Colour Space will show some brand-new works by Damien Hirst
NewsIn the frame
Damien Hirst mockumentary released on Netflix chronicles story behind epic Venice exhibition
NewsExhibitions
Damien Hirst gives exhibition to former spot painter Rachel Howard
Howard and John Copeland to take over Newport Street gallery in February
ArchiveExhibitions
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Details emerge about Damien Hirst’s secretive Venice show
Finished just in time for the Venice Biennale, this project has been 10 years in the making
ArchiveExhibitions
What happens when artists step into buyers' shoes: New Barbican exhibition "Magnificent Obsessions" showcases curio owned by the likes of Warhol and Hirst
Cookie jars and seven-legged lambs invite us to consider how distinctive styles emerged from the building blocks of various visual languages
ArchiveVictor Pinchuk
Pinchuk buys panned Hirst paintings
The paintings were shown in the artist's recent White Cube exhibition
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
A not so golden Olympics- tourist numbers drop
London’s leading museums lose more than a million visitors during the Games, but Hirst helps Tate Modern buck the trend
ArchiveDigital art
Digital art available on S[edition]
Robert Norton and Harry Blain brings the art world online
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Gagosian plans Hirst catalogue and major multi-venue exhibition as spots take over the world
Just how many spots has Hirst painted in the past 25 years?
ArchiveTate
Donations to UK national museums revealed: Tate receives lion's share
Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Gagosian hits the ground running in Hong Kong with Damien Hirst exhibition
Many of Hirst's most iconic works will be in attendance
ArchiveYoung British Artists
Do the Young British Artists remain a 'sensation'?
The debate regarding the relevancy of the Young British Artists as they enter middle age
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Proposals for Hirst and Baselitz shared show at the Albertina abandoned due to artists' objections
The works will be placed in different rooms within the permanent collection after artists were unhappy with ideas for an exhibition displaying them together
ArchiveTate Britain
News bites: the art world celebrates, commemorates, curates, complains, and ... stinks
Dr Penelope Curtis is a renowned scholar but also has a track record—as an exhibited artist
ArchiveArt market
A surprise show of strength at Frieze week post-war and contemporary auctions
Houses keep their heads above water with wider international selection
ArchiveOctober 2009
How did the financial downturn impact the market for brand-name artists like Hirst and Murakami?
Both have adopted marketing strategies more typical of luxury goods firms than artists. In 2009 we looked at their market history
ArchiveSotheby's
Post-war and contemporary auction report: Charles Saatchi strikes gold
Saatchi sells two Kippenberger paintings
ArchiveVictor Pinchuk
Pinchuk stages Hirst show in Kiev
His Pinchuk Art Centre will play host to over 100 works
ArchiveArt market
Diamond skull will go to auction if it fails to sell, says Damien Hirst
"A number of interested individuals are looking to purchase the skull at its full price of $100m"
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Francis Bacon claims his place at the top of the market
As Tate Britain opens a major travelling retrospective, we examine the factors underpinning the meteoric rise in prices for the artist’s work and reveal the identity of his biggest collectors
ArchiveRoyalty
Revealed: Royal family of Qatar is buyer of world’s most expensive Hirst
The ruling Al-Thanis bought the artist’s Lullaby Spring at Sotheby’s last year for £9.7m and are also believed to have purchased the Rockefeller Rothko for $72.8m
ArchiveCollectors
Meet the Danish collector whose Hirsts have just gone on show in Copenhagen
Jyte Dresing has loaned eight works to Copenhagen's Arken Museum of Modern Art
ArchiveCollectors
In a new private museum in Kiev billionaire collector unveils Hirst, Koons and Gursky
The Pinchuk Art Center was opened 16 September 2006
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Hirst to fix another formaldehyde installation
All four versions of Mother and Child, Divided, returned to Hirst's studio for conservation
ArchiveCollectors
Steve Cohen, billionaire hedge fund manager, is lending works to US and UK museums
This change of stance has attracted controversy
ArchiveGrayson Perry
The ceramicist reminisces about his days as a Neo Naturist and other art world gossip
Grayson Perry defrocked
ArchiveArtist interview
Art on the air: TV interviews with the tycoon, the craftsman, and the agitator
Damien Hirst on world domination, Grayson Perry on turning to tapestry and Anselm Kiefer on why Americans are hysterical
ArchiveCollectors
Carlo Bilotti's plan to open a new contemporary art gallery in Rome will proceed following his death
Late collector’s Hirst “chapel” will still open
ArchiveArt market
The Warhol effect : Moving from connoisseurship to brand recognition
How the money men have changed the market
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst in talks to replace rotting shark
The 1991 work, bought by Steve Cohen from Charles Saatchi for £6.5m, has deteriorated because of the way it was made
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Broad Foundation acquires one of the largest groups of work by Beuys in the world
Some will go on show in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion next year
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst conquers Mexico: the biggest collectors in the country are lining up to buy new work by the British artist
Other pieces, including a new version of the shark in a tank, have sold to Korea and the US
ArchiveBarbara Kruger
News from London: Kruger’s talking chess set, Hirst goes to Hollywood, and Duran Duran show their sweet tooth
Also featuring parenting tips from Emin and Tate's spiritually uplifting cabaret
ArchiveFeatures
News from New York: Turf wars in Tribeca
Artists, actresses and property developers compete for the best properties in the area
ArchivePublishing
Commercial publishing: Would you pay $250 for this Hirst catalogue?
Published to accompany his show of paintings at Gagosian in New York, it promises much but delivers little
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Will ex-Gagosian staffers poach his artists?
New Chelsea gallery to show Hirst, Salle and Brown
ArchiveMomart fire
Artists sue Momart for £20 million
Solicitors say premises were “a disaster waiting to happen”
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Arts on television: Bacon and Hirst as the bad boys of British art
Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration
ArchiveArt market
Rumoured sale of Damien Hirst's formaldehyde tiger shark to US billionaire Steve Cohen confirmed by Saatchi Collection
Scepticism surrounds the supposed value of $12 million
ArchiveComment
A blow to Britart as Saatchi's collection is caught in Momart warehouse blaze
Shame on the Schadenfreudians
ArchiveMoMA PS1
News from the US: Museum acquisitions and sales, refurbishment highs and lows, and fabulous manuscript donations
Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Mike Kelley on accumulating the uncanny in his new Tate Liverpool show
The Californian post-conceptualist plays the role of artist, curator and collector in his latest piece
ArchiveRome
Meet the man who wants to open a Hirst chapel in Rome
The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
News from London: Gagosian grows and grows, as does Tate Magazine, while Lisson and White Cube get into the festive spirit
Meanwhile, a dead animal stirs things up in Camden
ArchiveSouth Korea
C.I. Kim's monumental Britart collection encourages the consumer to dream
The businessman, collector, and artist whose department store museum includes work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley
ArchiveWhat's on
Jewellery at D’Offay, censorship at South London Gallery and Jane Simpson at Gagosian
What's on in London: A Martian adventure
ArchiveDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst: A Martian adventure
Jewellery at D’Offay, censorship at South London Gallery and Jane Simpson at Gagosian
ArchiveArt market
Post-War and Contemporary sale report: where have all the Warhols gone?
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
ArchiveArt market
Eyestorm, the internet print publishing company, is financially thriving
Launched at the height of the internet boom in 1999, it has to date received $24 million of capital funding
ArchiveArt market
Charitable Art Auction sale features Brit pack
Artists for the environment
ArchiveWhat's on
A round up of Manhattan art moments reveal a Hirst hidden in the digital dustbin, cuban prints and Kiki's perfectionism
Or your very own “Warhol” portrait for $265
ArchiveArt market
Contemporary and Post-war art auction sales do better than expected
Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Cecily Brown prove that it’s never too soon to be an auction star
ArchiveArt market
Ads for art get professional with a $6 million budget for eyestorm.com
A slick campaign of prominent ads for multiples by contemporary artists is being counted in London, New York and San Francisco
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: Jarvis Cocker tours Outsider Art, Anish Kapoor shows up in Bordeaux and Damien Hirst’s dentist opens wide
April 1999 provided a particularly nourishing media menu
ArchiveExhibitions
A trio of nineteenth-century paintings shows in England
The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites
ArchiveBooks
Books: Edward Lucie-Smith and the visual arts in the twentieth century
This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?
ArchiveArt market
Damien Hirst ignites the saleroom with his first appearance in auction
Five bidders competed for a Hirst painting
ArchiveLisson Gallery
News from London: All the Turner prize gossip, while Lopez returns to Spain but Lisson gets bigger
Horsing around at the Serpentine doesn't hit the right spot for Wallinger collector
CommentArt market
In our current dystopian art market, the pervasive and persistent Damien Hirst may well have the last laugh
The British artist has had a bumpy boom and boost history when it comes to sales, but his ubiquitous brand makes him a safer bet in uncertain times
Melanie Gerlis