Britart Hirst off to church with skull and heart
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britart superstar Damien Hirst, famed for his pickled sharks and sheep, is taking his "New Religion" to church. With the skull of a child cast in silver and a heart pierced with syringes and razor blades, one of Britain's most controversial artists is staging his provocative show next month at an Anglican church in London.
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Damien Hirst is named Europe's "most expensive living artist" after his medicine cabinet sells for Â£9m.
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Damien Hirst, the superstar British artist best known for his pickled displays of large animal corpses, launched his controversial work in Russia's capital on Monday at a private viewing with a difference.
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WEMBLEY, England - For art, they could have gone to the British Museum. For something grand, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace were a train ride away.
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A leading art collector has left 18 paintings by artists including Claude Monet, Francis Bacon and Paul Gauguin to two of London's top galleries, they said Monday.
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British artist Damien Hirst -- known for using dead animals in his works -- has sold the contents of his iconic London restaurant &quot;Pharmacy&quot; for 11.
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Pope John Paul II is to make his first Sunday appearance at the Vatican after his recent hospital treatment.
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Aspirin-styled bar stools, medical cabinets and other fittings from artist Damien Hirst&#39;s restaurant Pharmacy have sold for a record Â£11.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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Contemporary art collectors opened  their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a  Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and  British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS  in Africa.
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Arts & entertainment: The loquacious, likeable Frank Dunphy explains how he came to manage the world's biggest living artist and diamond geezer, Damien Hirst.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in the private chapel of Pope John Paul II returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture that the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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British artists Damien Hirst and David Hockney are to make gifts of some of their paintings to the Tate Gallery in London, which can no longer afford such works, its director Nicholas Serota said.
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The contemporary art world's brightest stars, including Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, have aligned to provide AIDS relief in Africa with a special auction in New York conceived by Hirst and rock star Bono.
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A major loan exhibition of Berniniâs sculptures, paintings and drawings is headed for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britart superstar Damien Hirst, famed for his pickled sharks and sheep, is taking his "New Religion" to church.