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Chelsea houseboat village goes on the market for £4.75 million Damien Hirst comes first in epic Olympic year for Tate Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin sign up to oppose arts cuts Cabbie clocks up £5,000 tip from Damien Hirst sketch Was Damien Hirst seeking inspiration with an early-hours recce of someone else’s art? Doom, gloom and Damien Hirst Lily Cole and Donna Air get preview of Damien Hirst's bloodied crows in flight Hirst pays £250,000 to revamp the Wallace for his show I only 'borrowed' them, says teenager caught with Damien Hirst's £500,000 pencils

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Staging 9/11 as an art form

02.09.11
Ten years on, London's arts world is marking the fall of the Twin Towers. Johanna Thomas-Corr reports... more

Hirst fights to buy moorings for his Chelsea houseboat

15.08.11
Artist Damien Hirst and Yo Sushi! founder Simon Woodroffe are part of a co-op of barge owners fighting to buy the Chelsea boatyard where their houseboats are moored... more

YouTube artist makes £1.7m on first night

15.07.11
An artist who funds his own shows and promotes himself on YouTube sold £1.75 million of art on the opening night of his new exhibition... more

Scramble for artist Gavin Turk's £25 signed eggs

20.06.11
Artist Gavin Turk sells signed eggs for £25 each at an art car boot fair in Brick Lane where bargain pieces by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin can also be snapped up... more

Chelsea houseboat village goes on the market for £4.75 million

28.03.11
London's most exclusive 'floating village', where residents include artist Damien Hirst and former Dragon's Den investor Simon Woodroffe, is up for sale for almost £4.75 million ... more

Damien Hirst comes first in epic Olympic year for Tate

03.03.11
Damien Hirst will be the Tate's star exhibitor for 2012 as the gallery pulls out all the stops for Olympic year... more

Human brain goes on show in ‘degrading’ gallery exhibit

11.01.11
A London art gallery is displaying a brain removed from the dead body of a multiple sclerosis sufferer... more

Banksy’s friend smokes spliff in public gallery as Nick Clegg addresses the Commons

11.11.10
Street-artist friend of Banksy was able to smoke a cannabis joint in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions... more

Serpentine Gallery outbids Damien Hirst for new space in Kensington

01.11.10
A London gallery has triumphed over Damien Hirst by beating the artist to secure a new exhibition space in Kensington... more

Damien Hirst has old diary returned

18.10.10
Artist Damien Hirst threatened to call the police to stop a former flatmate showing his 20-year-old diary to the public... more

Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin sign up to oppose arts cuts

08.09.10
More than 100 leading artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are backing a new campaign to fight cuts in the arts... more

How to get hold of works by top artists at household prices

23.08.10
Decorating your home - and your car - with works by top contemporary artists doesn't have to cost a fortune, says Jenny Wilhide... more

Damien Hirst in line to open his first gallery in Hyde Park

15.06.10
Damien Hirst is bidding to install the cream of his personal collection in Hyde Park... more

Cabbie clocks up £5,000 tip from Damien Hirst sketch

12.04.10
A sketch that Damien Hirst gave to a taxi driver as a tip is valued at up to £5,000... more

Pop and art line-up at Goldsmiths for BBC4

25.03.10
Goldsmiths art college has allowed cameras behind the scenes for the first time... more

Was Damien Hirst seeking inspiration with an early-hours recce of someone else’s art?

07.12.09
Damien Hirst may be one of the world's most successful artists but, as these pictures appear to indicate, even he struggles for inspiration from time to time... more

Doom, gloom and Damien Hirst

03.12.09
Damien Hirst's paintings so far feel like a gigantic backwards step. To use Bacon’s term, they really don’t work.... more

D'Offay's Hirsts and Warhols go on show

02.12.09
Work by Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol will feature in the next displays to be showcased at the Tate from a collection donated to the gallery by dealer Anthony d'Offay... more

Lily Cole and Donna Air get preview of Damien Hirst's bloodied crows in flight

25.11.09
Having swapped pickling sheep for painting crows, there’s no stopping Damien Hirst.... more

Bryan Ferry amongst stars at Sotheby's Red Cross party

18.11.09
Bryan Ferry was among the guests who attended the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross at Sotheby's. ... more

The cubist: how Jay Jopling created the artist as superstar

16.10.09
Nearly everything that happens in London's contemporary art scene has been influenced, if not dictated, by Jay Jopling. From his White Cube HQ, the superdealer brokers sales, spots talent and dreams up sell-out shows... more

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself

15.10.09
Damien Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than the rough daubing he shows in No Love Lost... more

Hirst pays £250,000 to revamp the Wallace for his show

13.10.09
Damien Hirst personally funded a £250,000 refurbishment of galleries at the Wallace Collection to display his new work alongside the Old Masters... more

Damien Hirst to show new work in St Paul's Cathedral

10.09.09
Damien Hirst is to exhibit an "important" new work in St Paul's Cathedral, it has been revealed... more

I only 'borrowed' them, says teenager caught with Damien Hirst's £500,000 pencils

04.09.09
Teenage graffiti artist reignited a bizarre spat with Damien Hirst by 'borrowing' a packet of pencils from his installation at Tate Britain... more

Fury over Hirst's 'barbaric' butterflies on two wheels

24.07.09
He may have got away with suspending a shark in formaldehyde, pickling sheep and cutting up cows, but Damien Hirst was accused of 'horrific barbarity' after decorating a bicycle with hundreds of dead butterflies... more

Lily Allen is a picture of happiness as she dines out with Damien Hirst

22.07.09
Lilly Allen confirmed her interest in British art by joining Damien Hirst at Scott’s in Mayfair. ... more

New order emerges in Classified's Britart

09.07.09
Classified works well as a top 20 of British art of the past 10 years or so.... more

Hirst back on the art market with mugs and keyrings

10.02.09
Damien Hirst is to open a second store just off Oxford Street, despite the economic crisis... more


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