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

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.

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

Mayfair eatery Bacchanalia, owned by billionaire tycoon Richard Caring, is searching for someone for the unique position

Mayfair-based Bacchanalia requires hopeful applicants to have a 'basic grasp of Latin' but says that 'regular manicures' are a perk of the gig - people are joking that they are brushing up on their Greek mythology to apply

British artist’s new work, The Currency, is a way for the public to participate, he says. But for many, it is the sort of trickery that has given contemporary art a bad name

From an interview with Swedish director Ruben Östlund about his Palme d'Or-winning class comedy "Triangle of Sadness", to a look at three new revivals of the beloved magical puppet story "Pinocchio", plus a trip to British artist Damien Hirst's gallery before he burns his spotted paintings, Eve Jackson brings us…

Ed Sheeran's parents changed their careers to support their children's dream of being music stars, including supporting Ed at the beginning of his rise to fame

The sale includes pieces by multiple British artists that will be sold without the names of the artists on them.

Burn your NFTs, it’s time for sci-fi, art pyres and curtain twitching your way round London

From accidental conflagrations to planned incineration, nothing turns up the heat of art world commerce like a blaze