“It felt awful for two years. The paintings were embarrassing and I didn’t want anyone to come in.” So says Damien Hirst, reputedly the world’s richest living artist and he of the formaldehyde ...

It's part of his project "The Currency." It consists of a collection of 10,000 NFTs. Each non-fungible token corresponds to a physical painting featuring his signature multicolored dots, made from ...

Damien Hirst is planning to burn thousands of his paintings in a project called “The Currency”. The artist will destroy the pieces at his Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London next month. Hirst, ...

No one said that the increased popularity of digital artworks in the form of NFTs should entail the destruction of their physical counterparts, but that’s not stopping many from doing just that.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. It was a project always destined to go up in a puff of smoke, at least part of it. And now ...

The collaboration came together in support of the organization Partners in Health, which is working to provide healthcare for especially vulnerable people around the world in the midst of the COVID-19 ...

The new works were painted by the artist's own hand. Detail of Paper Veils artwork, 2019. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All ...

“A photograph is from a moment. Painting is about stopping to look at the world, considering it, and giving it more importance,” Damien Hirst once stated. Hirst started working on his iconic Fact ...

British artist Damien Hirst is among the many art-world giants who have set fire to their work, having burned 1,000 of his artworks Tuesday. He streamed the event on Instagram and is set to burn ...