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Damien Hirst

Whats Normal Series: What Are You Looking At By Isil Arisoy

Fashion

The Eye of the Beholder

Here's the key to buying art: Buy what you love and want to live with. (And, of course, what you can afford.) One of the biggest names in art is making this even easier.

The Art At Tramshed

Food & Drink

Tramshed, Shoreditch

In the nineties when a then-unknown artist called Damien decided to saw a shark in half, preserve it in formaldehyde, and display it as art, it was controversial, to say the least. Twenty years on and the now filthy rich, Mr Hirst offers up his art – this time a chicken riding on top of a cow – for the more conventional purpose of helping to market a restaurant.

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Still Cashing In ?

Damien Hirst, the world's richest living artist, answers questions on money and mass produced art.