Tag: Hirst

Ex-Husband of Murdered Dealer Arrested, Another Backdated Hirst Sculpture Revealed, Lawmakers Pursue Smithsonian Jewish History Museum, and More: Morning Links for March 22, 2024  ARTnews Source link

Damien Hirst Formaldehyde Works Under Scrutiny, Hong Kong Artists Brace for New Security Law, Banksy Mural Vandalized, and More: Morning Links for March 20, 2024  ARTnews Source link

Damien Hirst burns his own art after selling NFTs  BBC Source link

Take two cultural phenomena, both designed to confound us, which are now each worth lots of money: the art of Damien Hirst and the equally infamous non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Between them they have already perplexed many art fans. This month brings them both together in a dramatic event to be staged during Frieze London, a moment when the international art world turns its ...

When he's not preserving dead animals in formaldehyde or encrusting skulls with diamonds, Damien Hirst is known for his spots.On the surface, they appear to be a more innocent affair, clusters of rainbow blobs that simply make the beholder feel happy, rather than provoking the outrage that a pickled shark or sliced-down-the middle cow and her calf might, say, or a photograph of the ...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, August 5. NEED TO READ Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson to Curate a Show of John Waters’s Collection – Artists Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson selected 90 works from the collection that filmmaker John ...

It was a project always destined to go up in a puff of smoke, at least part of it. And now Damien Hirst has announced he will burn thousands of his paintings at Newport Street Gallery in London as part of his year-long NFT project, baldly titled The Currency. Opening on 9 September, visitors to Hirst’s private museum will get the chance to view ...

Damien Hirst, the artist famous for pickling dead animals in the 1990s, is to burn thousands of his paintings next month in a project focusing on art as currency.Hirst, who was the UK’s richest artist in 2020 with a net worth of more than £315m, will destroy the artworks at his London gallery. He created 10,000 unique dot paintings in 2016, each with its ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Artory and Winston Art Group (“Artory/Winston”), a first-of-its-kind joint venture that is creating unique investment opportunities in the art market, announced today an opportunity with investment platform Republic. Both accredited and retail investors can invest in Damien Hirst’s Psalm 116: Dilexi, quoniam. This important artwork was selected based on expert valuation, due diligence and verification of provenance. In this inaugural opportunity, Republic ...

The animal rights organization PETA has filed a complaint against the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany over a Damien Hirst installation in which hundreds of flies died. In response, the city’s veterinary office issued an oral warning to the museum, and the artwork has since been dismantled. “We thought flies were not covered by the Animal Welfare Act,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg director Andreas Beitin told the ...