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The British artist and designer blazed a trail with his political, contemporary and confrontational work

The interviews with sports heroes that have made us laugh and cry

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

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

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

Portrait was donated by an art collector who bought piece at a party of DiCaprio’s

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 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

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…

Damien Hirst is embracing AI with a new collection of artworks. Introducing The Beautiful Paintings, a series of swirly AI-generated pieces, Hirst has posted footage of himself online in which he kisses a canvas and tells the camera: “I love art. Look at this. Oh my God. I really love…

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