Damien Hirst

The show is titled "Damien Hirst the Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011," and would that this were so.

NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2012

From his beginnings on the school bus in Bournemouth, via his student days at Goldsmiths (where he met a promising young artist called Damien Hirst), to the heights of global stardom as the bass player in Blur, James recalls every minute with relish, while pulling off the rare trick of laughing at its absurdity, too.

Summer reading 2007

From his beginnings on the school bus in Bournemouth, via his student days at Goldsmiths (where he met a promising young artist called Damien Hirst), to the heights of global stardom as the bass player in Blur, James recalls every minute with relish, while pulling off the rare trick of laughing at its absurdity, too.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

Some might call Damien Hirst this decade's answer to Basquiat.

canada.com Top Stories 2010

The latter room is decorated with outsized insects in specimen jars that recall Damien Hirst's famous pickled shark.

WN.com - Articles related to Excitable Robbie Williams 'pops the question to fiancée - three days earlier than he planned' 2010

(allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery); 'Damien Hirst' - "For the love of Paris" postcard, 10.5 x

MetaFilter 2009

For fine artists, often solo creatures, it's easy to get lost in the monastery of the studio (except for those artists with factories of people who paint for them, such as Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami or Kehinde Whiley) and frankly shocking to suddenly then have to lift one's head above the walls and care what other people think.

Kimberly Brooks: The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould 2010

For fine artists, often solo creatures, it's easy to get lost in the monastery of the studio (except for those artists with factories of people who paint for them, such as Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami or Kehinde Whiley) and frankly shocking to suddenly then have to lift one's head above the walls and care what other people think.

Kimberly Brooks: The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould 2008

These changed forever what we thought of art -- we grew to accept the theory that art is whatever an artist says it is, and these 20th-century icons are the obvious sources of later objects such as Damien Hirst's pickled shark and Tracy Emin's rumpled bed.

Pictures Worth a Million Words: 2008

Most insiders say that only at the topmost end of the market, where sales at auction are guaranteed by the artist's fame, could the middleman become an anachronism -- and that just a handful of artists, such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, have the kind of fame it takes.

Hirst's Marketing End Run 2008