On the eve of Damien Hirst’s 60th birthday, two philosophers of art explore the true value of the ‘world’s richest artist’.

The shark is British artist Damien Hirst’s 1999 sculpture “The Unknown (Explored, Explained, Exploded),” and it swims at the Palms’ new Unknown Bar, which Hirst designed. Palms owners ...

The reasons: it stinks, it’s turning green, and its fin is falling off. It’s well-known that Damien Hirst put a shark in a tank, gave it a long and vaguely philosophical title—The Physical ...

A formaldehyde shark made by contemporary artist Damien Hirst was misleadingly dated to the 1990s, even though it was actually made in 2017, a Guardian investigation found. The 13-foot long shark ...

Damien Hirst's pickled shark, the most valuable and iconic symbol of the 1990s boom in conceptual art in Britain, is rotting and is likely to be swapped for a fresher specimen. The Art Newspaper ...

Visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art soon will be able to see one of contemporary culture’s most startling artworks: Damien Hirst’s 13-foot tiger shark suspended in a tank of ...

The latest place to spot a Damien Hirst is not in the galleries ... These sculptures have commanded millions at auction—a shark work, The Kingdom, fetched $17.1 million at Sotheby’s London ...

From John Singleton Copley’s dramatic portrayal of a young man’s torturous battle to free himself from the animal’s clutches to Damien Hirst’s infamous tiger shark, here are our favorites.

Hirst himself opened up about the supposed origins of Myth Explored when he was shown at his Newport Street Gallery in London in 2020. While walking around the pieces of shark, he described the ...

Damien Hirst is famous for submerging a dead shark and a bisected sheep in tanks of formaldehyde, but he says his new NFT project is his “most exciting by far.” “The Currency,” as it is ...

Damien Hirst is, infamously, doing pretty well for himself. The 56-year-old is the richest artist in England, due in part to the branding power of his recognizable bodies of work, factory-like ...