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Damien Hirst painting of Leonardo DiCaprio sells for more than £1m at charity auction

Portrait was donated by an art collector who bought piece at a party of DiCaprio’s

The Independent UK

Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

Tate Britain, LondonOnce the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

The Guardian - UK

Towering over Thames: 60ft Damien Hirst artwork installed on the Greenwich Peninsula

The Demon with Bowl is his sixth work to be installed on the Greenwich Peninsula, making the riverside one of the best places to see his art

Evening Standard

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Damien Hirst sculpture worth millions battered in car crash

A £2.4 million sculpture by Damien Hirst has taken a dent. The Sphinx, a coral piece created by Hirst, above, in 2017, was ploughed into by a Rolls Royce, a police report reveals. The car knocked the piece, which is held in a private collection, off its pedestal before careering…

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst falls for AI with new paintings

Damien Hirst is embracing AI with a new collection of artworks. Introducing The Beautiful Paintings, a series of swirly AI-generated pieces, Hirst has posted footage of himself online in which he kisses a canvas and tells the camera: “I love art. Look at this. Oh my God. I really love…

Evening Standard

Tory grandees are split on Rishi Sunak’s election chances

Will it be 1992 or 1997 for Rishi? We asked Michael Portillo and Lord Heseltine

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst takes studio break to unleash dad-dancing in new video

Hirst, wearing a ‘The Dancing Kid’ shirt, appeared to be working from his studio

The Independent UK

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Ashley Bickerton obituary

Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural world

The Guardian - UK

Where to dance in London this Christmas: Your guide to party season

DJs, drinks and disco balls: David Ellis and Amy Francombe on the chicest dancefloors to be seen on this December

Evening Standard

Matt Goss reveals fan gave him a sheep’s heart as ‘a declaration of love’

Exclusive: The Bros star called it a ‘Damien Hirst moment’ but admits he was ‘alarmed’

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst’s NFTs pose a burning question

Editorial: The artist is not alone in looking to cash in on content-free art. Only time will separate the stunts from the lasting innovations

The Guardian - UK

Damning Damien Hirst for publicity stunts is like panning Van Gogh for painting flowers

The controversial artist has generated headlines by burning his own artworks, which were estimated to be worth £10m. But let’s not forget that Hirst has made his fortune by turning his every move into a global media event, writes Mark Hudson

The Independent UK

I won’t sing Bond but I will play him, says Ellie Goulding

Singer Ellie Goulding told us she is proud to use her “platform for good” as she won the Ally Award at the Attitude magazine ceremony in Camden last night. Goulding, right, was celebrated for supporting the LGBTQ community at the fun bash.

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst just burned 1,000 of his paintings and will soon burn thousands more

As part of his project "The Currency," Damien Hirst released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could keep either the non-fungible token or the painting.

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Damien Hirst starts burning thousands of his paintings as people wanted NFTs instead

He is setting fire to 4,851 valuable artworks

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst on new exhibition: I am not burning my art, I am transforming it

The British artist has begun the next stage of The Currency exhibition which will see him destroy some of his artworks in contained fires.

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst burns the first of thousands of his paintings as part of NFT project

Buyers purchased NFTs for the artwork for over £1,600

Reuters

Damien Hirst burns artworks after collectors pick their NFTs instead

Britain's Damien Hirst started burning hundreds of his artworks on Tuesday after collectors chose to keep their non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based assets representing their digital images, instead.

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The Guardian - UK

Digested week: welcome to the parallel universe of Trussia

Alternate realities seemed to be possible at the Tory conference. It was hard keeping up with the PM’s U-turns

Wales Online

Opulent restaurant seeking Latin-speaking grape feeder with 'gorgeous hands'

Mayfair eatery Bacchanalia, owned by billionaire tycoon Richard Caring, is searching for someone for the unique position

Daily Mirror

Lavish restaurant is hiring grape feeder who must have 'gorgeous hands' to apply

Mayfair-based Bacchanalia requires hopeful applicants to have a 'basic grasp of Latin' but says that 'regular manicures' are a perk of the gig - people are joking that they are brushing up on their Greek mythology to apply

The Guardian - UK

Creation, destruction, sensation: Damien Hirst’s burning desire to destroy art worth £10m

British artist’s new work, The Currency, is a way for the public to participate, he says. But for many, it is the sort of trickery that has given contemporary art a bad name

France 24

'Triangle of Sadness': Film judged the best at Cannes 2022 hits cinemas

From an interview with Swedish director Ruben Östlund about his Palme d'Or-winning class comedy "Triangle of Sadness", to a look at three new revivals of the beloved magical puppet story "Pinocchio", plus a trip to British artist Damien Hirst's gallery before he burns his spotted paintings, Eve Jackson brings us…

Daily Mirror

Ed Sheeran's dad reveals his sacrifice to fund son's music dream after credit crunch

Ed Sheeran's parents changed their careers to support their children's dream of being music stars, including supporting Ed at the beginning of his rise to fame

The Independent UK

Works by David Hockney and Rankin to be sold in anonymous auction for WaterAid

The sale includes pieces by multiple British artists that will be sold without the names of the artists on them.

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