Artist Damien Hirst burned 1,000 of his paintings on Tuesday, livestreaming the event on Instagram. The pieces were part of a collection called "The Currency," in which Hirst let buyers choose between ...

“The Currency” is the name given to Hirst’s NFT project, which examines the value of digital art vs. physical art. Britain’s wealthiest living artist, Damien Hirst, has started setting fire to ...

Smoke rose from artist Damien Hirst’s London gallery on Tuesday, as 1,000 of his signature “spot” paintings went up in flames. Thousands more will be reduced to ashes before the month is out. This was ...

No one said that the increased popularity of digital artworks in the form of NFTs should entail the destruction of their physical counterparts, but that’s not stopping many from doing just that.

English artist Damien Hirst has begun burning a collection of his artwork, the culmination of a years-long non-fungible token (NFT) experiment. Hirst burned 1,000 of his signature spotted paintings in ...

Damien Hirst is embroiled in a plagiarism row after being accused of stealing the idea of using live flies in his breakthrough work from a fellow artist. Hamad Butt, a classmate of Hirst at Goldsmiths ...

A work by Damien Hirst originally bought for under $800 could fetch more than $2 million when it comes up for auction in London next month. The 1989 piece “Bodies,” which has an auction estimate of £1 ...

Titled ‘Damien Hirst, To Live Forever (For a While)’, this exhibition catalog published by Rizzoli centers on the theme of mortality, showcasing a comprehensive selection of Hirst’s acclaimed artworks ...

British artist Damien Hirst is currently throwing thousands of works into fire pits at his Newport Street Gallery space in London, as the finale to his “Currency” exhibition. The somewhat ...