The Turner Prize-winning British artist Damien Hirst has collaborated with Snapchat on a new augmented reality experience that allows users to create their own versions of the artist’s celebrated Spin paintings using the Snapchat camera.
4 May 2020
The Brooklyn-based Art Collective MSCHF has purchased a £25k Damien Hirst spot print and cut out the dots.
28 April 2020
The Turner Prize-winning British artist Damien Hirst has created a new rainbow work to show support for the National Health Service (NHS) in the current Coronavirus crisis.
20 April 2020
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has briefed the nation on COVID19 in front of a painting by YBA artist Damien Hirst. The painting chosen from the Government Art Collection is in-situ in the cabinet minister’s office.
17 April 2020
Damien Hirst’s show Mandalas, at White Cube Mason’s Yard, has already attracted indignant commentary in The Times. Rachel Campbell-Johnson’s review
22 September 2019
Damien Hirst’s first major solo exhibition in London in seven years, comprised of new paintings from his ‘Mandalas’ series.
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Summer has finally arrived in the UK so if you’re planning on heading out of London, Artlyst has put together a list of twelve exhibitions to see around the UK. Don’t miss the Keith Haring extravaganza at Tate Liverpool; major sculpture exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park including David Smith and Damien Hirst as part of Yorkshire Sculpture International; seaside photography at Turner Contemporary and painting shows galore from early 20th century masters such as Vuillard to contemporary giants Bridget Riley and Paula Rego and historical exhibitions such as Last Supper in Pompeii at the Ashmolean.
4 July 2019
Sotheby’s, London, have sold the collection of Damien Hirst’s business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy for a total of £10,088,125 million
23 September 2018
Berlin-based artist Martin Eder (b.1968, Augsburg), will feature major new paintings alongside work spanning over a decade of Eder’s career this Autumn at the Newport Street Gallery.
16 August 2018
High value bluechip contemporary art displayed at alternative venues is usually something that excites us here at Artlyst; however,
24 May 2018
Last week I was a guest at the magnificent Houghton Hall, one of the most impressive Palladian houses in Britain.
29 March 2018
Damien Hirst will be the next artist to take over Houghton Hall for their summer exhibition.
22 March 2018
Damien Hirst the Turner Prize-winning former YBA has unveiled a sample of his evolving painting style, and it’s not Bacon inspired like his skull series nor is it exotic like his ‘Parrot’ paintings. The new works hark back to his original ‘Spot’ canvases painted in the 1980s.
14 February 2018
Damien Hirst’s has released a mocumentary film on Netflix following the storyline of his Disney-like exhibition
8 January 2018
Just occasionally, an exhibition manages to take me unawares. This was very much the case with Dan Colen’s new show… Read More
6 October 2017
Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme set amongst some of London’s most iconic architectural landmarks, launches on 27 June including works by Paul McCarthy,Martin Creed and Ryan Gander.
21 June 2017
A – lister actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Will Smith turned out for the amfAR AIDS benefit that is the social highlight of the Cannes film festival. The event held annually at the Eden Roc Hotel, Cap d’Antibes on the French Riviera saw celebrities and benefactors paying up to $500,000 for a table. But where was the Contemporary art on the auction block?
30 May 2017
One has been waiting for some time for Damien Hirst to exhibit an artist in some fashion at least resembling himself.
5 May 2017
Damien Hirst’s latest exhibition which opens to the public on April 9th, 2017, titled “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” focuses on a fictitious ship wreck which happened some 2,000 years ago off the coast of East Africa.
7 April 2017
A selection of works taken from the Murderme Collection, Damien Hirst’s collection of over 3,000 works by other artists including Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy and Richard Hamilton.
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Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice which open to the public on April 9 has been targeted by animal rights activists who dumped bags of dung outside the palazzo where the YBA is planning to return following a quiet period.
15 March 2017
The Newport Street Gallery has announced their next solo exhibition which follows Gavin Turk’s successful exhibition at Damien Hirst’s private Art Gallery. Ashley Bickerton an American artist (b.1959), will display work spanning more than three decades of his career and features almost 50 works, including both new and previously unexhibited pieces.
28 February 2017
Damien Hirst will unveil an unprecedented project with the Pinault Collection at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
30 October 2016
The Gallery remodelled from three listed Victorian industrial buildings and the building of two new ones in Vauxhall was shortlisted… Read More
9 October 2016
Damien Hirst first saw Gavin Turk’s work at his Royal College degree show in 1991 and began acquiring pieces in… Read More
15 September 2016
A series of 13 monumental prints by the YBA artist Damien Hirst, entitled The Last Supper (1990) has been put on exhibit,… Read More
17 August 2016
Back in April 2016 we reported that Damien Hirst’s 2012 Tate gallery retrospective may have leaked dangerous fumes from the various… Read More
16 July 2016
The six shortlisted entries for the prestigious 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building has been announced…. Read More
14 July 2016
The Artlyst lystical of creative people who dropped out at uni includes some predictable names: John Lennon, Orson Welles, good… Read More
3 June 2016
Oh no, not another bloody Listicle! When I first got into writing drivel for advertising, using a numbered list format was frowned upon.
1 June 2016
The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?! Yah boo hiss!) are always surprised… Read More
20 May 2016
The Jeff Koons exhibition, entitled with the single word ‘NOW’, is the latest exhibition to be presented in Damien Hirst’s… Read More
20 May 2016
