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• Damien Hirst's Business Manager Frank Dunphy - ArtInfo caught up with Damien Hirst's business manager on the phone recently. Frank Dunphy talked a little about the infamous diamond encrusted skull and the $100 million price tag.
• Damien Hirst Diamond Skull Sells - Damien Hirst's diamond skull (For the Love of God) has reportedly been sold for $100 million. The buyers were an unnamed investment group, which doesn't surprise me at all.
• For the Love of God but Cheaper - Damien Hirst's diamond skull "For the Love of God" might be out of your price range, but "For the Laugh of God" might be within reach. Sure, it's an appropriation and the diamonds are fake, but you'll save about one hundred million dollars on the price of it.
• Diamond Skull by Damien Hirst - I mentioned the Damien Hirst diamond encrusted skull being made before, but now it's finished and being exhibited at the White Cube gallery in London.
• Damien Hirst Slaughterhouse - Neighbors of a proposed Damien Hirst studio in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK are not happy about the artist's plans. He has already been given permission to build an "art gallery, workshop and center of excellence".
• Damien Hirst Butterflies Controversy - Anonymous posted a comment on the Damien Hirst exhibition post recently, accusing Hirst of stealing the butterfly/stained glass idea from another artist.
• Damien Hirst Interview - Damien Hirst is currently exhibiting at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and London. Superstition is a more contemplative, inward looking Hirst than usual. He is looking to poetry and religion for inspiration rather than the usual death, medicine, and shock that has made the artist who he is.
• Damien Hirst Out of Ideas - The man that was once thought of as one of the most original thinkers in the arts is now being accused of not having any good ideas for the past 13 years. Arts writer Jonathan Jones once wrote glowingly about Damien Hirst, but now sees the artist as unimaginative and without ideas.
• Replacing a Dead Shark - Perhaps his most famous work (The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living) will soon be replaced with a new dead shark. The work was made in 1991 and is already falling apart, the liquid is murky, and the shark has changed shape.
• YBA to Middle Aged Businessman - At the Gagosian Gallery in London there is an exhibition by the once "Young British Artist", now middle-aged art mogul, Damien Hirst. He is showing a variety of works from different periods of his career.
• Damien Hirst's Diamond Skull - The contemporary British artist Damien Hirst is working on creating one of the most expensive works to be created. The work will be a life sized skull cast in platinum and then covered in diamonds.
• Rich Artists = Bad Art? - Vincent struggled for his art, so did Modigliani, but artists like Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, and more recently Damien Hirst could afford to pay an army of assistants to work for them.
• Damien Hirst's New Shark - The British artist Damien Hirst plans to tread water and earn up to £24 million doing it. His iconic work of a dead shark floating in formaldehyde, "The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living" completed in 1991 has been one of the works to be repeated.
• Hirst no1 on ArtReview List - The ArtReview magazine has released its fourth annual listing of the art worlds most powerful players. British artist Damien Hirst was number 78 on the list of 100 last year, making it quite an impressive jump.
• Damien Hirst in Mexico - Contemporary British artist Damien Hirst is building a studio in Mexico, so he can escape the British winter 3 months of the year and to get closer to a culture he feels an affinity with.
• Damien Hirst buys Gothic Manor - The contemporary British artist Damien Hirst will soon become lord of his own Gothic manor after purchasing a 3 million pound Gloucestershire residence.
• The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living - Damien Hirst's shark is migrating to the United States from it current UK homeland. The dead shark floating in formaldehyde is an iconic work that symbolizes the Britart movement and won Hirst a Turner prize nomination in 1992.
• Damien Hirst Pharmacy Auction - Damien Hirst stamps his authority on the contemporary art market with record sales at the Sotheby's, London auction.

Posts that have mentioned the British artist Damien Hirst

• Lucien Freud Number One in Britain - The Great Art Fair in London has done a poll to find out the favorite artist of artists at the event. Lucien Freud has topped the list, with Leonardo nowhere to be seen in the top ten.
• Rent a Saatchi - The advertising man and art collector Charles Saatchi is renting out a selection of 600 works from his collection. Works by contemporary artists like the Chapman Brothers, Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Stella Vine, Tom Hunter, Gary Hume, and Gavin Turk are among the rentals.
• The New Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - The American photographer Luis Gispert has reinterpreted Pablo Picasso's ground breaking work, the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
• Thomas Kinkade Art - An article in the Times online newspaper was talking about how art appreciates in value. It mentioned the contemporary British artist Damien Hirst and how his accountant claims the artist is worth about 100 million pounds (roughly $175 million USD).
• Rich Art Collectors - Modern day Medicis or top billionaire art collectors according to the Forbes Business magazine.
• Turner Prize Awarded - Thirty Eight year old London artist Jeremy Deller has been awarded the Turner Prize this year.

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