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This art could kill you: the shocking genius of a 'forgotten' YBA

A new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is about to put Hamad Butt back into the art history books as a daring, challenging artist who was just as important as Damien Hirst and co

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst says he used to buy property ‘a bit like Monopoly’

British artist opened up about his life and work in a rare interview

The Independent UK

Kylie Jenner, Tommy Hilfiger, and Lenny Kravitz transform their homes with prints – the London Original Print Fair Director has a method that makes their look 'accessible and affordable' in your home

Celebrities from the Kardashians to Lenny Kravitz decorate their homes with prints by famous artists, and it's easier to recreate than you might expect

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‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach

The Guardian - UK

Charity shop customer bought artwork for £2.40. The real price was a lot, lot more

She purchased the painting after taking a liking to its decorative frame

The Independent UK

At This Three-in-One, Scenic New London Restaurant, Damien Hirst's Paintings Aren't the Only Masterpieces

Celebrated chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's experimentation playground at The Emory's abc kitchens brings a slice of New York glamour to the capital and food so beautifully crafted it competes with the artwork

Livingetc

Damien Hirst says banana taped to wall is ‘serious art’

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love about art,’ said the British artist

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‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

The Guardian - UK

Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA

Butt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop

The Guardian - UK

Earning half the minimum wage: new report reveals pressures on artists to sustain creative life

Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of…

The Conversation

Scottish Artist Jasleen Kaur Wins 2024 Turner Prize

Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur won the prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday, as the UK contemporary art award celebrated its 40th anniversary.

International Business Times

Artist Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize for work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity

An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily has won the U.K.’s prestigious Turner Prize

The Independent UK

Sex, drugs and scandal: The Groucho Club's most hedonistic moments

As the celebrity haunt faces a licence review, Claudia Cockerell looks at the Groucho’s history as a haven for drug-fuelled evenings of debauchery

Evening Standard

The art of confrontation: an encounter with Damien Hirst, 1996

The artist was notorious for being shocking, provocative and macabre… and that’s just his interviews

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Male artists such as Damien Hirst less of a force after 40, says Tracey Emin

Artist, 61, also tells The Louis Theroux Podcast that she likes ‘pomp and ceremony’ of the royal family

The Independent UK

Male artists like Damien Hirst less of a force after 40, says Tracey Emin

Artist also tells The Louis Theroux Podcast that she likes ‘pomp and ceremony’ of the royal family

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Art takes London: Tiffany & Co, Damien Hirst and artists take over Selfridges' windows

Four British contemporary artists celebrate Tiffany & Co's pioneering history with a series of storied window displays

The Guardian - UK

Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life

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Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’

The Stirling prize-winning duo’s new St Pancras Campus of homes and offices in London is a triumph of attention to detail. It could also be their last new-build, they tell us, as they focus on renovation projects – such as a turreted arts centre in Arbroath…

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The Art of the Sprint - Mark Cavendish’s Nike X Damien Hirst shoes are the most unusual, and expensive, cycling collaboration of 2024

UK’s richest living artist designed Cav’s final pair of custom shoes

Evening Standard

Ruth Rogers: 'Retire, me? No, no, no — I’ll die at the stove'

Ruth Rogers tells Ben McCormack about her new cafe, getting Macca to open up, and why she’s desperate to keep Biden in power

Louder

“Sometimes, it out-earns the entire Blur catalogue”: Blur bassist Alex James on making Fat Les’ enduring football classic Vindaloo

The Blur man is set for the song's popularity to be reignited ahead of the Euros

The Guardian - UK

The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

The Independent UK

At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks created years later than claimed, investigation finds

Lawyers have argued that the sale of the paintings was not misleading

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: How a day of fevered general election speculation unfolded

In today’s newsletter: From a drop in inflation, to Cameron’s cancelled sojourn to Tirana. Now can Rishi Sunak persuade people that being ‘back to normal’ is enough?

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