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Hirst, the controversial, wealthy British artist whose pieces include a shark’s head suspended in formaldehyde, is turning his attention to preserving something else - the environment. Hirst has unveiled plans to build 500 eco homes in the British...
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Each house will feature photovoltaic panels and concealed wind turbines in the roofs and will complement the surrounding houses too. Architect Mike Rundell, said the property would feature 1,000 other new homes, a primary school, small business units...
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Tracey Emin had her Hayward Gallery retrospective last year, while Damien Hirst's Tate Modern extravaganza opens in April. Meanwhile, another linchpin, Sarah Lucas, is in lower-key, experimental mode, truer to the movement's original punkish spirit,...
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Not only does the show radically reposition the way we think about prints, but it also provides crucial commentary on the way art is disseminated and distributed. Prints are the work of multiples, seeing new meaning in new places. It is about...
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The sitting room was underwired (Cat 5 cabling, obviously, as all through the house) and the Bang & Olufsen system could stream music all through the adult rooms of the house. The television was a 60in plasma. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst...
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I only made it to six -- the three in New York, the two in London and the one in Paris. This means, of course, that I'm totally out of the running for the signed spot paintings awarded to those art-lovers attending the ambitious, not to say aggressive,...
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The Telegraph reports that massively rich, formaldehyde-happy British provocateur Damien Hirst is plotting to build 500 green homes complete with "hidden wind turbines in the roofs, photovoltaic solar panels and state-of-the-art insulation" near his...
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His clear-inked depictions of bare-breasted women with gigantic buttocks and redwood thighs in strange, unnatural unions with satirical, anatomically impossible smaller men are not from the same world as the one inhabited by the high art of ‘shock’...
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Taken together, it seems to move the visual arts into a slightly different league, and still in prospect is Tate Modern’s 2012 headliner, timed to coincide with the Olympic Games: a mammoth Damien Hirst survey show, opening in April and running through...
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The smaller child, who is maybe three years old, wears a turquoise coat and a patterned pink hat with earflaps and pompoms, and holds a pink stuffed monkey. On her coat is a pin that reads, "I [spot] DH." "The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011," Jan....
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Kyle Chayka interviewed painter Marilyn Minter , who curated
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Damien Hirst use his media savvy and sprawling, globe-spanning ambitions -- recently on view in his critically reviled "Spot Painting" show at Gagosian gallery -- for good? The former Young British Artist has just unveiled his newest endeavor: He wants...
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According to a spokesperson, Hirst “has a horror of building anonymous, lifeless buildings. He wants these houses to be the kind of homes he would want to live in.” The mind boggles. Jess Zimmerman is the editor of Grist List.
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Hirst hopes his plans will form a national blueprint for environmental housing - the properties will feature hidden wind turbines in the roofs, photovoltaic solar panels and state-of-the-art insulation - but concerns have been raised over how their...
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Hirst's latest work could turn out larger than the globally coordinated showing of "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" that filled 11 Gagosian galleries. And this time, it's all in one place. One of the world's wealthiest artists is investing some...
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Richardson also sat for Andy Warhol, was a friend of Francis Bacon, toured Venice with Truman Capote and ushered at Sir Cecil Beaton's memorial service in New York. He has been Greta Garbo's landlord and Salvador Dalì's dealer. He emits a pained noise...
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Artists have tapped into this phenomenon, too - Damien Hirst's obsession with classification and collecting owes something to clandestine visits to the house of his hoarding neighbour, for instance. The Chinese artist Song Dong has a more personal...
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Hirst is perhaps best known as an extraordinarily provocative, sometimes playful artist who makes an incredible amount of money from his conceptual art — in a surprising shift, he now aims to channel some of that wealth into a new role as a pioneer in...
About Damien Hirst
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Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions... Full Article
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - DECEMBER 01: Damien Hirst and Svetlana Marich attend the Phillips De Pury dinner and dancing hosted by Simon de Pury at Cecconi's Soho Beach House Miami on December 1, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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In this picture taken Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, an exhibitor stands next to the works of Damien Hirst at the India Art Fair in New Delhi, India. The fair consists of work by more than one thousand artists from India and around the world and runs from January 26-29.
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