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H9 - 5 Honesty, 2021. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates. © Damien Hirst. All rights reserved, DACS 2021 Damien Hirst is jumping on the digital-art bandwagon by making his own NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) and a cryptocurrency. “It is the most exciting project I have ever worked on by far,” Hirst says in a statement, adding that he’s been working on the project in secret for five years, and that it’s been “blowing my mind.” The NFTs belong to a new body of works he calls “The Currency.” It consists of 10,000 original works on paper created five years ago and currently locked...

SHARE Damien Hirst has always put the intertwined relationship between art and finance at the centre of his practice. During the Young British Artists years, he set up a restaurant, Pharmacy in London, cashing in on his reputation. He publicly turned his studio into a company, Science (UK) Ltd. He showed a diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God (2007) with a fixed price, contrasting the material worth of the object (£14 million, or $20 million) with the amount he was selling it for (£50 million, or $70 million). So it stands to reason that Hirst would be among the first major artists...

A blooming bargain! Artist Damien Hirst is selling cherry blossom prints for £2,000 (and you can even pay for them by Bitcoin)