Hirst's diamond skull raises Â£50m
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A diamond-encrusted human skull by British artist Damien Hirst sells to an investment group for Â£50m.
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Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, paid $50,000 for works by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali at a charity event this week, an auction official said.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - While British artist Damien Hirst and his crowd rocketed to fame and fortune in the early 1990s, contemporary painter Peter Doig's rise to prominence has been glacial by comparison.
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Traders assess impact of unprecedented Â£50bn support package from central banks
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A painting by Bollywood star Sushmita Sen is auctioned for a whopping $50,000, a price usually reserved for some of India's most popular artists.
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Claude Monet's impressionist masterpiece Nympheas is sold at auction in London for Â£18.5m
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Britain's Damien Hirst has been crowned the world's most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a title held for 18 years by America's Jasper Johns.
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Artist Damien Hirst -- known for putting rotting animals on display in museums -- is selling the contents of his iconic London restaurant "Pharmacy", complete with its skeletons.
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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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A fund-raising drive secures one of Turner's finest watercolours for the UK.
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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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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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A Â£50,000 gift to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was a hoax, an investigation by appeal organisers reveals.
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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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Donations from the British public for victims of last Sunday's Asian earthquake reach the Â£50m mark.
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Four schemes, including the Eden Project and a cycle network, go head to head to win Â£50m of lottery cash.
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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.