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Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022

Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023

Takashi Murakami on failed NFTs and making art during Covid: ‘I got deep into crypto’

The Japanese artist’s solo exhibition in San Francisco spans three decades of his work, including his tryst with flopped NFTs

The Guardian - US · Sep 20, 2023

First look at Matthew Freud’s creative Cotswolds escape

When is a hotel not a hotel? When it’s a super-chic mind-expanding retreat where activities like perfumery and Padel are included and meals are eaten communally, says Harriet Quick

Evening Standard · Sep 6, 2023

Banksy, Hirst and Emin come to town: an arty weekend in Newmarket, Suffolk

The three big names and dozens more artists will be taking the reins in the home of horse racing for the largest contemporary art exhibition in the UK this year

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

Derek Culley obituary

Other lives: Artist whose first studio was a garage, and who curated exhibitions for emerging artists including the young Damien Hirst

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2023

‘Dicing with death’: the lethal, terrifying art of Hamad Butt – and the evacuation it once caused

Blending science and the supernatural, high art and gothic horror, Hamad Butt made work that was literally dangerous, in one case sparking fears of a gas leak. He is one of the stars of Tate Britain’s rehang

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2023

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 · May 26, 2023

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 · May 23, 2023

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 · Apr 21, 2023

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 · Apr 13, 2023