Bono, Damien Hirst team up for AIDS art auction
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U2 frontman and social campaigner Bono has teamed up with British artist Damien Hirst for a charity art auction in New York on Thursday to raise money for UN-backed health programs in Africa.
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Life & style: In pictures: The proceeds from luxury gifts for lovers will go towards fighting Aids and HIV in Africa
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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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A new charity, United States Artists, will announce Tuesday an ambitious plan to provide support to working artists, starting with a grant program that will be one of the most generous in existence.
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Kylie Minogue raises Â£400,000 for charity by performing two songs at an Aids event in southern France.
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In 1992 it was shocking artwork. Fourteen years later it was $8 million worth of rotting seafood. Enter Damien Hirst, a squad of assistants, 200 needles, an ocean of formaldehyde and one brand new 13-foot tiger shark.
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Companies teaming up with Bono's (Product) Red campaign to offer specially branded PCs, with part of the proceeds going to help fight AIDS in Africa.
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U2 frontman Bono has partnered with  Hard Rock International to release a customized T-shirt for  Hard Rock's Signature Series.
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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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Multi-millionaire English artist Damien  Hirst said on Thursday he was donating four major works to  Britain's Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and  calf.
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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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Damien Hirst is named Europe's 'most expensive living artist' after his medicine cabinet sells for Â£9m.
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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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Props, paintings and statues from The Da Vinci Code are to be auctioned off to raise money for Lincoln Cathedral.
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After a legendary career playing to sold-out stadiums, Bono and the Edge this weekend doing what their fans have done for years Â standing in line to see a U2 concert.
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This week the Metropolitan Museum confirmed that a work by Damien Hirst will go on view in its modern and contemporary art galleries by Labor Day weekend. It will be there for two to three years.
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LOS ANGELES  - U2 frontman Bono has   signed on as the first guest on musician/producer David A.   Stewart's upcoming music-themed interview show for HBO.