The YBA’s watery comeback dazzles with its extravagance, but the audacity of Hirst’s exhibition only goes so far
Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice 9 April – 3...
Hirst Reconsidered
Damien Hirst Tate Modern, London 4 April–9 September 2012
by CELIA WHITE
Reviews of Damien Hirst’s work invariably focus on the artist’s apparently cont...
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Serpentine Gallery, London 25 November 2006-28 January 2007
A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, the faceless boatm...
The Damien Hirst art industry is limbering up for the massive sale of his work in September, of some £65 million worth of work, to the chagrin of the dealers. They just have ...
In a studio in the Cotswolds, close to Stroud, a megawork is gestating. A massive
cube of empty carbon dioxide canisters is being put together. Damien Hirst has
chosen to r...
... being restricted by chronology. Butt, Johnson points out, had evolved his art practice over several years before he joined that stellar cohort of Goldsmiths students of th...
... paintings such as Damien Hirst’s Bognor Blue (2008), comprising eight dead butterflies stuck to a monochrome blue canvas, and Maggi Hambling’s strikingly macabre Cuddl...
... and a fan – some of your Spider-Man comics are displayed here, as well as one of your fabulous Spider-Man-inspired outfits, and the Transformers tribute? By way of contr...
... thinking earlier about a very different artistic practice that engages with underwater excavation, Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, which see...
... the 1980s art world, along with Goldsmiths stablemates Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. They too have made themselves rich through the repetition of the daring, at times bril...
Francis discusses the evolution of his subject matter, his techniques, his use of colour, the importance and influence of science and music, and his current shows in Ireland and ...
... as Tate Britain’s refurbishment and Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, talks about their long-term work renovating the house and gardens of Hospitalfield in Scotla...
... seemed like an attack on the luxury bling of the late Young British Artists period, as epitomised by Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull (which was exhibited at the T...
... Ghost was bought by Charles Saatchi and included in his first Young British Artists (YBA) exhibition in 1992, alongside work by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. Unlike them, ...
... stuff”, and the term artist as “super-pretentious – I can’t even say it!” His bewilderment was humanising, and, for me, hearteningly gonzo. But he may be the las...
... so an easier question to answer would be: “What hasn’t changed?”
CB: I never really felt like I was part of the art world. I always felt like an outsider. The YBAs...
... Themed to Ed Ruscha’s signature The Future, and helmed by Miami native Kenny Scharf, works by a roster of 60 artists including Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Urs Fischer and ...
... start to see art as a fundamental part of our community and our human psyche. It’s not just about being the next Damien Hirst or the next Lucian Freud. There is so much ...
... were more artist-run and independent spaces and a lot of creativity. Now, there’s more commercial galleries and big institutions. In the late 90s, artists were putting o...
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