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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…

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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 Guardian - 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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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…

The Guardian - UK

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

Cycling News

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

Evening Standard

“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

Louder

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

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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?

The Guardian - UK

At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

Exclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources say

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst’s reconstructions had a precedent in Carl Andre’s bricks

Brief letters: Artworks remade | Planting trees in ’93 | Spending a penny in Victorian times | Luxury ironing

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The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst shark that sold for about $8m is fourth 2017 work dated to 1990s

Exclusive: Sculpture bought by US billionaires was made almost 20 years after date that appears in its name

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Could a generational smoking ban help the UK kick the habit forever?

In today’s newsletter: A new UK parliamentary bill is designed to end smoking in a generation – here’s how it would work

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst’s shark changed my life. Now he has taken a chainsaw to his glorious past

In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative future

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst row as formaldehyde artworks found to be completed in 2017, not 90s

British artist Damien Hirst has been embroiled in a row after it was found several of his artworks were completed years after it was previously thought.

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: What you need to know about Israel’s dispute with Unrwa

In today’s newsletter: The country has accused Unrwa workers of supporting Hamas – and a new story outlines ‘harassment’ of the agency in the West Bank

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: detention releases could top 170, Hong Kong passes security law, Hirst artworks controversy

The number of detainees refusing to cooperate with the immigration system is bigger than thought; Hong Kong’s parliament grants new powers to quash dissent

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017

Exclusive: Three sculptures exhibited in galleries around world were artificially aged, sources claim

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