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Hirst hopes to turn a £20,000 doodle into £2m
New works by Damien Hirst, including a sheep with a golden horn and a zebra in formaldehyde, are expected to fetch £65m when they go under the hammer at Sotheby's in September.
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They've bought a Bacon. Now for a $300,000 settee
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Andrew Johnson on the latest craze for members of the world's Big Money club – 'functional sculpture'
Magical library may vanish
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Britain's largest collection on the supernatural may be broken up and sold
Wallinger branches out into public art
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Mark Wallinger, who won the Turner Prize for State Britain, his incendiary installation of anti-war posters, unveils a giant state-of-the-art steel sculpture today for one of Oxford University's most traditional colleges.
Royal favourite Seago is back in fashion
Sunday, 20 July 2008
A major retrospective is planned for autumn. Andrew Johnson reports
First humans, now animals are turned inside out by Von Hagens
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Since he first perfected his technique for replacing body fluids and fat with a silicone polymer, Gunther Von Hagens has attracted infamy and fascination in equal measure for his production line of corpses frozen in time.
The new exhibition that's bound to be a hit
Friday, 18 July 2008
Visitors to Ben Turnbull's new exhibition should prepare themselves for not only a visual assault but an aural one too.
Has Banksy's real identity been discovered at last?
Monday, 14 July 2008
The 10-year quest to discover the true identity of the underground artist known as Banksy has become almost as captivating as his stylised graffiti which has popped up unannounced on buildings across the world.
£300m: Fashion king's art collection in sale of century
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Auction houses go to war for the right to stage the biggest private-owner sale ever
'Six months to save Lascaux'
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France by placing the Lascaux caves – known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory" – on its list of endangered sites of universal importance.
Kapoor's 'Giants' to be the world's biggest public artwork
Friday, 11 July 2008
A decade ago, Antony Gormley's 65ft sculpture, Angel of the North, was credited with placing Gateshead on the artistic map of Britain and starting a trend for large-scale public artworks nicknamed the "Gormley effect".
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