Artist Damien Hirst burned 1,000 of his paintings on Tuesday, livestreaming the event on Instagram. The pieces were part of a collection called "The Currency," in which Hirst let buyers choose between ...

No one said that the increased popularity of digital artworks in the form of NFTs should entail the destruction of their physical counterparts, but that’s not stopping many from doing just that.

British artist Damien Hirst is among the many art-world giants who have set fire to their work, having burned 1,000 of his artworks Tuesday. He streamed the event on Instagram and is set to burn ...

Damien Hirst is famous for submerging a dead shark and a bisected sheep in tanks of formaldehyde, but he says his new NFT project is his “most exciting by far.” “The Currency,” as it is called, will ...

LONDON - There are pickled sharks and polka dots, cigarette butts, flies and butterflies. Visitors are likely to be struck by the variety of work in a new show devoted to the career of Brit Art ...

Damien Hirst has given his verdict on Comedian, the divisive work of art by Maurizio Cattelan, which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Damien Hirst (The Currency/PA) Damien Hirst has said he is not burning his art but “transforming it”, as he began setting fire to ...

He might be Britain’s richest artist, but with each attempt to monetize his talent, Hirst’s originality as a conceptual sculptor becomes an ever more distant memory. By Scott Reyburn LONDON — “He’s a ...

The white tents are up in Regent’s Park, and the art crowd has descended on London to burn money at Frieze. And if collectors followed their noses today, they just might have ended up at Damien ...

Most painters wouldn’t dream of destroying their own masterpieces, but that’s exactly what British artist Damien Hirst is doing. It’s all part of an extravagant experiment. “This one’s called ...

The artist Damien Hirst is known to stir up controversy. He's submerged a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, ditto a bisected cow and calf, and in an installation called "In and Out of Love," at the ...