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Hotel grounds come to life with Ireland’s largest sculpture exhibition

The works have gone on display at the Culloden Estate and Spa in Co Down.

The Independent UK

Jamie Reid obituary: the Sex Pistols collaborator who defined the punk aesthetic

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

Evening Standard

The best Desert Island Discs with sports stars, from Jill Scott to Ian Wright

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

The Independent UK

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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

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

‘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

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

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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

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

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

Damien Hirst falls for AI with new paintings

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…

Evening Standard

Tory grandees are split on Rishi Sunak’s election chances

Will it be 1992 or 1997 for Rishi? We asked Michael Portillo and Lord Heseltine

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst takes studio break to unleash dad-dancing in new video

Hirst, wearing a ‘The Dancing Kid’ shirt, appeared to be working from his studio

The Independent UK

Ashley Bickerton obituary

Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural world

The Guardian - UK

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Where to dance in London this Christmas: Your guide to party season

DJs, drinks and disco balls: David Ellis and Amy Francombe on the chicest dancefloors to be seen on this December

Evening Standard

Matt Goss reveals fan gave him a sheep’s heart as ‘a declaration of love’

Exclusive: The Bros star called it a ‘Damien Hirst moment’ but admits he was ‘alarmed’

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst’s NFTs pose a burning question

Editorial: The artist is not alone in looking to cash in on content-free art. Only time will separate the stunts from the lasting innovations

The Independent UK

Damning Damien Hirst for publicity stunts is like panning Van Gogh for painting flowers

The controversial artist has generated headlines by burning his own artworks, which were estimated to be worth £10m. But let’s not forget that Hirst has made his fortune by turning his every move into a global media event, writes Mark Hudson

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I won’t sing Bond but I will play him, says Ellie Goulding

Singer Ellie Goulding told us she is proud to use her “platform for good” as she won the Ally Award at the Attitude magazine ceremony in Camden last night. Goulding, right, was celebrated for supporting the LGBTQ community at the fun bash.

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Damien Hirst just burned 1,000 of his paintings and will soon burn thousands more

As part of his project "The Currency," Damien Hirst released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could keep either the non-fungible token or the painting.

Wales Online

Damien Hirst starts burning thousands of his paintings as people wanted NFTs instead

He is setting fire to 4,851 valuable artworks

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst on new exhibition: I am not burning my art, I am transforming it

The British artist has begun the next stage of The Currency exhibition which will see him destroy some of his artworks in contained fires.

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst burns the first of thousands of his paintings as part of NFT project

Buyers purchased NFTs for the artwork for over £1,600

Reuters

Damien Hirst burns artworks after collectors pick their NFTs instead

Britain's Damien Hirst started burning hundreds of his artworks on Tuesday after collectors chose to keep their non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based assets representing their digital images, instead.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: welcome to the parallel universe of Trussia

Alternate realities seemed to be possible at the Tory conference. It was hard keeping up with the PM’s U-turns

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