Hirst work shows diamonds are a skull's best friend
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Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds ($98 million).
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Anselm Kiefer continues to transform raw materials into art in this show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Here are the most popular theories making the rounds on the sale of Damien Hirstâs diamond-encrusted skull.
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Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds ($98 million).
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Arts & entertainment: Adrian Searle on how the Tate Modern has brought the pervy panache of Duchamp and Pacabia to life
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A work by artist Damien Hirst, famed for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, on Thursday became the most expensive by a living artist ever sold at auction, the auctioneers said.
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A rediscovered masterpiece by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele was to go under sale in a highly anticipated auction Tuesday, a highlight of a bumper week in the buoyant London art market.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million (50 million pounds), a spokeswoman for Hirst&#39;s London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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David Hockney says a show of "stunning" JMW Turner works he curated gives an insight into the late artist's technique.
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Work by one of Aberdeen's leading 18th-century goldsmiths goes on show at Aberdeen Art Gallery this weekend, alongside the only Scottish showing of a major exhibition by a contemporary silversmith.
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British artist Damien Hirst's latest solo show "Beyond Belief" at London's White Cube gallery, which closes this weekend, has taken $250 million in sales in just five weeks, the gallery said on Friday.
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A 8ft-tall sculpture of a diamond is expected to raise around Â£6m when it is sold at auction in November.
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Roberta Maxwell is so magnificent as an aged sculptor in âThe Shape of Metalâ that itâs easy to see why she would have been drawn to this ramshackle work.
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A giant sculpture of a spider by Louise Bourgeois, similar to one, below, that has been luring the crowds to Tate Modern on Londonâs South Bank, has been donated to the gallery, the BBC reported. Vicente Todoli, the museumâs director, called the gift of the almost 30-foot-tall work, titled âMaman,â a âhistoric moment.â The steel and bronze sculpture was given to the Tate by Ms. Bourgeois and an anonymous benefactor. It is the largest of a series of spiders made by Ms. Bourgeois, now 96. The artist, who lives in New York, has described the piece as âan ode to my mother, my best friend.â She added: âLike spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes.â.
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The idea that artists and scientists glare at each other across a cultural divide is mostly fiction, as the work of the printmaker Joseph Scheer makes abundantly clear.
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Previously unseen drawings of Claude Monet, including one found on the back of another work, provide insight into the artist, a British curator said.
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Damien Hirst is named Europe's "most expensive living artist" after his medicine cabinet sells for Â£9m.