This past April, Glasstire picked up the story that famous YBA artist and art mogul Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde-filled tanks were leaking poisonous gases. Studies conducted by a scientific research team examining Hirst’s 2012 Tate…
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst uses real formaldehyde as the preservative in all his be-tanked dead-animal art. (He could use something less toxic but seems to prefer old-fashioned, real-deal formaldehyde.) Museums and large private…
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The elusive graffiti artist Banksy has created a theme park on the site of the Tropicana, which once was a public swimming pool in a town on England’s west coast.…
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The BBC London News reports that two artworks by Damien Hirst were stolen from the Exhibitionist Gallery in Notting Hill early Monday morning. The gallery only opened this past September…
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On Wednesday night, Peter Doroshenko, director of the Dallas Contemporary, talked to approximately forty eager art world types. "Anything is possible," he said, "You are the only roadblock."
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Hong Kong to Beijing: an Art Fair, Ai Weiwei’s Complex, Monolithic Skyscrapers, the Forbidden City, and More!
Much of the art in China is in a dialogue between East/West and the absorption of modern art history. Duchamp! He seemed to be everywhere.
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An expanded version of the web site s[edition] launched yesterday, creating a new platform for digital artists to sell their work to buyers around the world. If successful, more digital…
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On April 25th, Dallas’ CentralTrak hosted Not Waiting for Permission, the second annual panel discussion on the state of the emerging arts in Dallas, organized by The Green Bandana Group.…
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I’d rather not point fingers at specific artists, but I am concerned that there is a lack in much of contemporary art of what I perceive as… Passion. A couple…
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Jean-Ulrick Désert is a Haitian-born American artist living in Germany. His performance project Negerhosen 2ooo is one of the standouts of the soon-to-close Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art…
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Gold is on people’s minds a lot lately—more than usual, what with inflation worries, “End the Fed” protests and calls to return to a gold standard. People fear their dollar…
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The MTV Staying Alive Foundation announced that the inaugural MTV RE:DEFINE art exhibition and auction, held at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, has raised more than $770,000 for the charity,…
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Of Brits and Bill Clinton: Art Auctions in Big D
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisDallas has two big time auctions coming up, one this Friday at the Goss-Michael Foundation, the other in October at the Rachofsky House, each raising money for AIDS research. Visiting…
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You can wear ugly clothes sort-of designed by Damien Hirst’s baby momma! You are so lucky! Remember buying that Peter Max t-shirt at Dillard’s in Plano in 1986? I know…