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Damien Hirst is considered a safe bet in a troubled art market Photo: Andrew Russeth I am spending a lot more time at my desk these days. Sat with me at the moment is a copy of Gregor Muir’s rip-roaring 2009 memoir Lucky Kunst: the Rise and Fall of Young British Art. On its cover, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst exude Cool Britannia, not quite smiling out of a backdrop of Hirst-inspired spots. All are seemingly consigned to a 1990s London past. The view from the 2020s is not so clear cut. Emin has pretty much become a national treasure with the dubious advantage of being ...

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Damien Hirst, Self-Portrait as Surgeon (2007). © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates. Courtesy of Gagosian. It’s not often that a gallery—especially one with “mega” status—hands over an entire space to a single artist for a year. But such is the star power of Damien Hirst that Gagosian invited the British artist to take over its Britannia Street gallery, one of its three London spaces, this year—and Hirst is poised to start with a bang. When London’s lockdown restrictions lift on April 12, Hirst will unveil a series o...

Damien Hirst. Photo by Billy Farrell, ©Patrick McMullan. One of the world’s mightiest galleries has handed over its keys to one of the world’s most famous artists. Damien Hirst will organize all the shows at Gagosian’s Britannia Street location in London for the entire next year. The shows will consist of Hirst’s own work. Hirst’s Britannia Street debut will be a show of his hyper-realistic “Fact” paintings and sculptures. “The idea of variations of truth seems relevant just now,” Gagosian director Millicent Wilner tells the Financial Times. He will also show a large can...

Idles, Gary Numan, Warpaint Among Acts Confirmed For Andy Gill And Gang Of Four Tribute Album Thursday, 14 January 2021 Credit: Damien Hirst, Dog with Bone, 2017 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.  The full list of contributors for 'The Problem Of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill And Gang Of Four' has been revealed. The double album celebrating the music of Gang Of Four and their late co-founder Andy Gill will feature covers of their tracks by Idles, Helmet, 3D (aka Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack) and Nova Twins, Hotei, Gary Numan, Gail Ann Dorsey, Herbert Grönemeyer feat�...