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Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasin…
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“I think the thing to do is to stand up and say hang on a minute - this is people, these are bodies, these are lives. The surest way to make it happen again is to go and start throwing stones at somebody.”
“The thing about 9/11 is that it”
Artist and writer Joe Machine accused Hirst of plagiarism of his cherry blossom paintings, the 16th accusation of plagiarism against Hirst
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“As a human being, as you go through life, you just do collect. It was that sort of entropic collecting that I found myself interested in, just amassing stuff while you”
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Organised with Pinault Foundation a solo exhibition, in Venice contemporarily to the Biennale in two places in the city: Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana
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Donated artworks for the secret auction of Art on a Postcard, a charity supporting the fight against Hepatitis C
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Damien Hirst designed the interiors of his new restaurant Pharmacy 2 at the Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London
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Hirst was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his album cover for the Beatles' Sgt
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Damien Hirst designed the cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers album I'm with You
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Hirst was among the unsuccessful bidders to take over the Magazine Building, a 19th-century structure in Kensington Gardens, which reopened in 2013 as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery after its conversion by Zaha Hadid
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In 3:AM Magazine and in The Jackdaw, Charles Thomson argued that there are 15 cases where Hirst plagiarised the work of others, including his enlarged version of an anatomical torso model, Hymn (1999), which Thomson pres
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The annually collated chart of the wealthiest individuals in Britain and Ireland, Sunday Times Rich List, placed Hirst at joint number 238 with a net worth of £235m
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Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, raised US$198 million
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Hirst was quoted as saying of An Oak Tree by Goldsmiths' senior tutor, Michael Craig-Martin: "That piece is, I think, the greatest piece of conceptual sculpture
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Hirst donated the 1991 sculptures The Acquired Inability to Escape and Life Without You and the 2002 work Who is Afraid of the Dark
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Artist John LeKay, a friend of Damien Hirst between 1992 and 1994, was reported by Dalya Alberge of The Times to have provided ideas and inspirations for a variety of his later works, including having given him a "marked
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A graphic artist and former research associate at the Royal College of Art, Robert Dixon, author of 'Mathographics', alleged that Hirst's print Valium had "unmistakable similarities" to one of his own designs
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“Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. There's boring conceptual art and there's boring traditional art. Great art is if you can't stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.”
Hirst founded the art book publisher Other Criteria
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Under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the Stuckism International Gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display two years before Hirst's by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Sup
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Hirst gave up smoking and drinking after his wife Maia had complained and "had to move out because I was so horrible"
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Hirst was sued for breach of copyright over his sculpture, Hymn, which was a 20-foot (6
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Hirst's sculpture Hymn (which Saatchi had bought for a reported £1m) was given pole position at the show Ant Noises (an anagram of "sensation") in the Saatchi Gallery
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With a specific anti-Britart agenda by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish; Hirst is one of their main targets
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Or to become a Royal Academian but refused
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Chef Marco Pierre White said Hirst's Butterflies on Mars had plagiarised his own work, Rising Sun, which he then put on display in the restaurant Quo Vadis in place of Hirst's work
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His autobiography and art book, I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now, was published
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When a spin painting that Hirst said was a "forgery" appeared at sale, although he had previously said that he often had nothing to do with the creation of these pieces
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The Sensation exhibition opened at the Royal Academy in London
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Awarded Turner Prize (1995).
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Becoming good friends and going on annual family holidays with him
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Hirst won the Turner Prize
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Hirst wrote and directed an advertisement for TNT UK's 100% Weird television strand
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At the Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited Away from the Flock (a sheep in a tank of formaldehyde)
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“s 100% Weird television strand. The advert followed a man taking his pet canary for a walk to the local butcher, and featured a slew of surreal and bizarre imagery, including a group of eyeless men playing cards while a skinned dead cow drops onto the floor, a man on a high-rise chair defecating a kidney bean, and a businessman (played by Malcolm McLaren, who also composed the music for the advert) wearing earrings. While TNT were initially”
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With the work, Mother and Child Divided, a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines
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Saying, "I would like Damien to acknowledge that 'John really did inspire the skull and influenced my work a lot
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For his first Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in North London, which included his The Physical Impossibility of Death
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Charles Saatchi had offered to fund whatever artwork Hirst wanted to make, and the result was showcased in 1992 in the first Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in North London
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Hirst met the up-and-coming art dealer, Jay Jopling, who then represented him
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And since then, the formaldehyde preserving the shark has slowly eaten away at the animal's body, which shows signs of decay
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Modern Medicine and Gambler, in a Bermondsey former Peek Freans biscuit factory they designated "Building One"
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Had been part of a group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris
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Born 1965-06-07.
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Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. There's boring conceptual art and there's boring traditional art. Great art is if you can't stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.
s 100% Weird television strand. The advert followed a man taking his pet canary for a walk to the local butcher, and featured a slew of surreal and bizarre imagery, including a group of eyeless men playing cards while a skinned dead cow drops onto the floor, a man on a high-rise chair defecating a kidney bean, and a businessman (played by Malcolm McLaren, who also composed the music for the advert) wearing earrings. While TNT were initially
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