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The Currency
The year is over boom 💥 that was quick! and we have all had to decide: NFT or physical? The final numbers are: 5,149 physicals and 4,851 NFTs (meaning I will have to burn 4,851 corresponding physical Tenders).
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Great Expectations
(1/10) Everything done well is art. With Drake’s support and blessing, I’ve created this free Thanksgiving gift for all currency NFT holders; it’s loosely based on the album cover I made for Drake.
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"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water"
Thanks for the idea from 'wherearethespoons' who drew a whale on the HENI Discord: ❤️
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Cherry blossom show now on at japanese the national art center Tokyo
@NACT_PR
, if you are passing pop in! 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸
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I have been in the physical art world a long time and I expect people to have agendas and shit, and I’ve seen a lot of bollox and I’m amazed at how this community breeds support and seems to care about shit so in the end I decided I have to keep all my 1000 currency as NFTs...
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Competition Time⏰🌀
I'm giving away 10 artworks from The Beautiful Paintings. The prizes are generated by ME!
To enter:
1. Share a spin generated from , tag
@HENI
&
@hirst_official
2. Follow
@HENI
&
@hirst_official
3. Tag 3 friends in the comments
🧵👇
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Just made these 5 mega red glitter prints! Thought the idea was good but seeing them now, real, they feel like they're unlocking the unfathomable mysteries of the universe. I called them The Empresses & named them after famous female rulers. On for a week!
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Ask me anything (On Discord)!! Friday 1-2pm ET, I'll answer your questions live on the
@HENI
Discord. Ask your questions now on the 'ama-damien-hirst' thread. Go!
HENI Presents: Damien Hirst AMA🟢🔵🟡🔴
💬
@hirst_official
is doing a live AMA on the HENI Discord!
💫 Friday 8th of April, 1-2pm ET
❔ Got questions on The Currency, GE, The Empresses or anything else? Ask them now, in the 'ama-damien-hirst' channel:
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The REDEMPTION of my 💸💸💸💸🎨🎨🎨🎨CURRENCY project has started !! This is the first people exchanging their NFT TENDERS for the physical TENDERS (the physical art) at my Claridge’s show. Oh my goodness what have I done? And what does it even mean??? Boiiiinngggg!!! HELP!
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Long may it last and I can’t wait for the next twists and turns. The road is long and the world’s our oyster and all that! Who knows where but here we go!
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I have already learnt so much and it’s only been a year and I am so proud to have created something alive, something mad and provocative and been a passenger (along with all the other participants in the currency) and to help build a fantastic community on
@HENI
.
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I am releasing “The Currency” at 3pm tomorrow (14th July 2021) on . This is my global art work experiment. It comprises of 10,000 NFT’s, each corresponding to a unique physical artwork made in 2016. Each artwork is called a “Tender”.
@PalmNft
@HENIGroup
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otherwise it wouldn’t carry on being a proper adventure for me and so I decided I need to show my 100 percent support and confidence in the NFT world (even though it means I will have to destroy the corresponding 1000 physical artworks). Eeeeeek! I still don’t know what I’m doing
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Get on down to my show “Natural History” opening at Gagosian, Britannia street this week. All formaldehyde works & old works you might not have seen.
There's an opening event on Wednesday 9 March 4-8pm, it’s open for everyone & anyone who wants to come.
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My Cherry Blossoms show opens on the 2nd of March at The National Art Center, Tokyo,
@NACT_PR
. Pop by and see it if you can!
Here are some images from the show at
@Fond_Cartier
.
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then all paper again and round and round I’ve gone, head in a spin. I believe in art and art in all its forms but in the end I thought fuck it! this zone is so fucking exciting and the one I know least about and I love this NFT community it blows my mind.
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My Paper Veils are now for sale on
@HENI
Primary. They are all on display at the HENI Gallery in Soho, London. If you’re nearby, pop in and check it out.
Applications are open until 5pm GMT on 6 December 2022 on .
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and I have no idea what the future holds, whether the NFTs or physicals are going to be more valuable or less. But that is art! the fun, part of the journey and maybe the point of the whole project. Even after one year, I feel the journey is just beginning.
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This bronze hand is going to be the tip of the spire of the chapel I’ve been working on in the south of France!☝🏼💒 Can’t wait to see it completed!
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Check out this video of
@stephenfry
& I discussing 'The Currency': what is art, money, truth? how does it tie into belief? Maybe more importantly, what will people do with the Tenders? Nearing the end of the beginning. Applications close tomorrow 3pm BST.
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My 3rd
@gagosian
takeover in London is now open. It’s about violence and danger and escapism and death and warning signs and being safe or getting caught!! I also recreated something of a drug bust.
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Damien supports the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and has created this design for
@weareeuropeuk
#votein
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I'm beyond excited to release my new project with
@HENI
The Beautiful Paintings which uses a generative algorithm & machine learning to create spin artworks. I've created 25 spin styles & other options you can choose from to generate unique artworks. (1/5)
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I have been all over the fucking shop with my decision making, trying to work out what I should do. In the beginning I had thought I would definitely chose all physical. Or most physical haha. Then I thought half- half and then I felt I had to keep all my 1,000 as NFTs and...
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As part of the Great Exhibition of the North (22 June – 9 September), Damien Hirst's ‘Heaven’ is on show at Newcastle University's Great North Museum As part of the Great Exhibition of the North (22 June – 9 September)
@GNM_Hancock
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‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ charts the story behind Hirst’s most complex project to date which was recently shown at Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice. The film will be on Netflix tomorrow.
#damienhirsttreasures
#treasuresfilm
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Loads of free gifts of The Currency merchandise for The Currency holders on
@HENIGroup
’s site. Check it out over at
(1/3)
#TheCurrency
Merch
As a gift to The Currency community, we're giving away exclusive
#TheCurrency
merch!
Applications are open until 12pm ET, Saturday Dec 18. NFT holders can apply for 1 of 8 different pieces of merch on 🔴🟡🟢🔵
More info below!
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Wishing you all a merry Christmas
Image: ‘Sympathy in White Major – Absolution II’, 2006
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I’ve been working for a few years on a secret project with
@HENIGroup
called ‘The Currency’ which involves the blockchain and NFTs. It's the most exciting project I have ever worked on by far, it’s blowing my mind.
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My new artwork 'The Currency' is now open for applications at . 10,000 NFTs that correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks. You have to decide which one you want, you can't have both! I have no idea what's gonna happen!!
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(10/10) Check the out the collection on
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Ask me anything (On Discord)!! Tomorrow 7-7:30pm BST, I'll answer your questions live on
@HENIGroup
Discord. We'll talk 'The Currency' and give you an idea of how you are all part of this artwork! Ask your questions now on 'ama-damien-hirst' thread. Go!
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I will also handpick the 10 winners.
Competition ends 23:59 PST Sunday 9 April.
Good luck. I Believe in you! 🙏 May the best 10 win! 🖖
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(9/10) We are inventing the future together. The possibilities are infinite. All roads lead to the same place. Earth🌍is magical. We are born, we look around, we die.
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Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World.
Hirst's new show – “The Veil Paintings” at
@GagosianLA
– in the
@nytimes
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Really liking these two haikus!! Put together from The Currency Tender titles. Thank you
@JoeFenton
!!!
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Hirst's 'The Severed Head of Medusa' is on display in The Classical Now, a major exhibition at
@KingsCollegeLon
featuring Classical, modern and contemporary works. Until 28 April 2018.
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An incredible show opening at my museum on 16 Feb. Paintings by Keith Cunningham, a contemporary of Francis Bacon. He’s got an amazingly fresh vision & not many people have seen his work.
There's an Opening Event 15 Feb, 6-8pm, open for everyone & anyone.
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(3/10) and now my hope is that with this free gift you can all share and feel the excitement I feel about NFTS and the digital world, and here it is and I fucking love it! Like all great art It looks easy, we worked hard on this, we wanted it to be pop, high and low art,
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Two years ago I gave to all The Currency NFT holders a gift of a Great Expectations NFT.
If you’ve got one or kept yours, you can now pay $2.5k (plus any applicable taxes) and buy a beautiful
@HENI
print of your NFT's artwork.
🔗 (1/2)
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I’ve just released these new butterfly editions called ‘The Elements’. You can find them
@HENIGroup
on their new platform Leviathan and through the link below! Applications close at midnight on Monday 10th August BST 🦋
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Damien Hirst’s ‘Treasures from The Wreck of the Unbelievable’ welcomed more than 360,000 visitors since opening on April 9th. The exhibition at
@Palazzo_Grassi
and Punta della Dogana closed last Sunday.
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My Paper Blossoms drop finally starts today on
@HENI
Primary. It finishes on 14 November at 17:00 GMT.
🔗
I want them to make you feel good, feel happy, I want you to get lost in them. and I want them to feel like summer...🧵
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(2/10) It’s a dot painting made of emojis, I’ve made the emojis from the splats and blobs and drips and dribbles I’ve found in “The Currency”. I tried to create an image that sums up the powerful hope filled love, humour & daring truth in the music of Drake for his album cover
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Just arrived in Paris for my cherry blossom show at
@Fond_Cartier
. I’ve just had one egg for lunch and that was un oeuf. Show opens Tuesday July 6th.
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Today is the final day of ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’. The exhibition has been Hirst’s most ambitious to date, shown across both
@Palazzo_Grassi
and Punta della Dogana.
Damien Hirst, Three versions of ‘Grecian Nude’. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates
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I've teamed up with the great
@FondazionePrada
to make a new set of charity editions to raise money for
@SaveChildrenIT
. They're called Fruitful & Forever and are based on details from my Cherry Blossom paintings. Available
@HENIGroup
until 27 September.
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New print drop with
@HENI
of 12 new prints “where the land meets the sea”. Anyone interested can go see the prints and the show at Phillips, Berkeley Square.
Print drop finishes 14 August 2023 at 17:00 BST.
🔗
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Yo!
I have created a new rainbow artwork to show support for the NHS in the current Coronavirus crisis. The work, Butterfly Rainbow, will also be sold as a limited edition print to raise money for the NHS. A poster of the new work can be downloaded here:
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(8/10) Ideas are born, families are born, art is born, images are born, music is born; and all before we die. I imagine that inside the 12 bellies are 12 gifts representing infinite possibilities. Like Pandora’s box.
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Here's a video of me and
@MarkJCarney
talking about 'The Currency’, gold, greed and Karl Marx.
@HENIGroup
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I've made eight cherry blossom prints called The Virtues with
@HENIGroup
. For the first time I'm accepting Cryptocurrency for payment! You can buy them via the link below. Available until 23:59 PST Wednesday 3rd March.
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(7/10) I figured that everybody loves their mother (well almost everybody), everybody loves babies and the future, everybody loves colour, everybody loves art, everybody loves freedom and everyone loves emojis. What’s life about? If it isn’t about the hope of motherhood?
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I’ve donated a signed copy of my book Beyond Belief to Mark Selby and Gareth Potts for their charity raffle for the NHS. Click on the link to donate to a good cause and be in with a chance to win it!
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(4/10) it had to be ironic while remaining iconic, it had to be optimistic and hopeful, international, a thing of beauty that everyone and anyone could relate to and understand, and it absolutely had to be something that looks amazing on your phone.
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(6/10) A thing to talk about, that you can’t ignore. An NFT that could communicate to people who haven’t been born yet what’s it’s like for us to be living in the complicated world of today.
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I've released two new Rainbow editions to support
@NHSCharities
and
@felixprojectuk
with
@EveningStandard
during this time. You can buy the prints from the link below and they are available for 1 week until midnight on 25th May:
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(5/10) I wanted it to feel throw away but to also feel timeless. An image that could be polarising but that people who want to can love without making a big effort, I wanted it to say everything and nothing at the same time. To be something for everyone.
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Finished the paintings 🙌 whoop! Dropping 8 secret gardens prints (The Secrets) - it never ends, like they say in Japan - when the art 🎨 is finished you die ☠️
The drop closes on 5 February at 17:00 GMT. Via
@HENI
: .
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Closing in two weeks’ time, ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ features the 18m ‘Demon with Bowl (Exhibition Enlargement)’. On view at Venice’s
@Palazzo_Grassi
until December 3rd.
#damienhirsttreasures
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Hirst paintings and sculpture exhibited until 10 Nov in display of David Bowie’s Art Collection in London
@Sothebys
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I want you to forget your troubles if you have any, for a moment and enjoy the idea of flowers, of sunlight and of cherry blossoms and I want you to love the chaos and celebration of the splattered paint. Is that wrong for me to want that ? Does that make me a hippy?
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Thanks for all the great entries.
Hard to choose but here are the 10 winners.
COMPETITION WINNERS🎉
Thanks for all the beautiful entries! The winners that each win an artwork from
#TheBeautifulPaintings
are:
@glenn_hodl
@MiB0007
@holamananahola
@_StunnR
, fhezez, merzstreetart, fluidoblu, danusiasmith, scrotaldinho, wayne_elvin
See the winning entries👇
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'The Warrior and the Bear' on view
@Palazzo_Grassi
in
#damienhirsttreasures
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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I’m on Gagosian's Artist Spotlight this week. They’re looking back at my Visual Candy paintings from the 90s and recent ones like the Veil Paintings from 2017 and 2018. There’s essays, videos and an interview with me, check it out if you’re interested!
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It’s stupid, it’s chaos – it’s love: Damien Hirst on his Cherry Blossoms via
@financialtimes
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I'll sign all the canvases in paint on the front. Who knows where all this will lead but I'm so blown away by what I've created using all this tech to push the boundaries & create these beautiful artworks. (4/5)
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Here's a link to the
@FT
article covering my first NFT series 'The Currency'. Launching 3pm BST today!
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#TBT
to Sculpture in the City’s 2015 exhibiting of ‘Charity’. This year, the seventh edition of the
#sculptureinthecity
project includes Hirst’s ‘Temple’:
Photo: Nick Turpin
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'Hands in Prayer' on view
@Palazzo_Grassi
in
#damienhirsttreasures
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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‘Eternal Truth’ in collaboration with Lalique Art on view at
@lalique
Paris until 22nd October. Photo: Fabrice von Hove
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Spin Drawing for Women’s Equality' (2015) to be auctioned in support of
@WEP_UK
at
@phillipsauction
this afternoon.
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A selection of Hirst’s ‘Visual Candy’ and ‘Natural History’ works are now on view at
@Gagosian
Hong Kong until 13th January.
Image: ‘Myth Explored, Explained, Exploded’ (1993–99). Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates
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I have called the series “The Beautiful Paintings”, for obvious reasons.
The drop is on for a limited time… until 10 April at 23:59 PST. (5/5)
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Here’s a white marble sculpture I made in 2011 called ‘Tadukheba’. It’s made from Carrara marble and has sapphires for eyes. You can see it if you’re in Rome at “Forgiving and Forgetting” my show at the
@Gagosian
gallery. Show’s on July 6th - October 23rd.
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'Winged Horse' on display
@Palazzo_Grassi
in
#damienhirsttreasures
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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'The Archangels’ starts today on
@HENI
Editions. If you want to see them they are on display at HENI Gallery in Soho, London.
Four landscape format prints based on my four-panelled Cherry Blossoms paintings, which I named after the archangels - Raphael, Uriel, Michael and…
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Closing tomorrow, ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ has been Hirst’s most ambitious exhibition to date. The show, exhibited in both
@Palazzo_Grassi
and Punta della Dogana, has been almost ten years in the making.
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My takeover at
@Gagosian
opened yesterday called Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures. I'll be posting an IGTV every day on Instagram of me walking around the gallery talking bollocks about the works in the show
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‘Temple’ (2008) now on display in the City of London as part of
@sculpturecity
Photo: Nick Turpin
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'Eternal Sleep' from the 'Eternal Collection' on view
@LALIQUE
Paris until 22nd October. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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'Eternal Immaculate' from 'Eternal Collection' with Lalique Art. On view at
@LALIQUE
Paris until 22 Oct. Photo: Fabrice van Hove
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The Light That Shines drop starts today on
@HENI
Primary. It includes works from some of my new series, The Empress Paintings, Cosmos Paintings and Satellites sculptures.
🔗
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'The Immaculate Heart – Sacred’ now on display
@gossfoundation
as part of ‘On Bodies’ exhibition. Until 2 February 2018. Photo Abigail Firth via
@ModLuxDallas
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Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable review – a titanic return
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The 'Eternal' Collection in collaboration with Lalique Art. Now on view
@LALIQUE
Paris until 22nd Oct. Photo: Prudence Coming Associates
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The first
#ConnaughtTree
, designed by
#DamienHirst
, unveiled on Mount Street, Mayfair
@TheConnaught
@hirst_official
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@NPSGallery
is now open to the public! The inaugural exhibition is John Hoyland: 'Power Stations' until 3 April 2016.
http://t.co/fnTztiFdvD
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This image is Tender number 8,483 (as you can see, it is numbered, titled and signed on the back). Each Tender will be sold for $2,000. Stay tuned for more news...
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I’ve always loved Bonnard and his colour, i went to see a show at the Pompidou in Paris of de…
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‘The Asthmatic Escaped II’ (1992) now on view
@hirshhorn
in ‘What Absence Is Made Of’. Photo: Cathy Carver.
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@hirst_official
curiosity cabinet auctioned for charity in October via
@Paddle8
@DeyrolleParis
http://t.co/8cBQzj8l9K
http://t.co/mQMNPZlnv6
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