Damien Hirst, big baby and caricature of a provocative artist (stop trying to get it! you don't get it!), is in deep doo-doo with the RSPCA for butterfly abuse. And he wouldn't have it other way.
We just got an exclusive look at the cover of Dasha Zhukova's Garage magazine's debut issue. And there's a set of tattooed labia on it.
British artist Damien Hirst's latest work is a a baby skull covered with diamonds. On one hand, diamonds are a girl's best friend, but on the other, dead baby. Ow, my ladybrain.
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Artist Damien Hirst created this amazing bicycle, plastered with the wings of thousands of butterflies, for Lance Armstrong to ride in the Tour de France finale. Naturally, PETA is pissed. "This is barbaric and horrific," said a PETA representative. [DailyMail]
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The new alternative fashion mag Tar faces the recession by featuring a Damien Hirst image of Kate Moss "with her skin pulled back to expose the muscle tissue along one side of her face." [NYT]
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This is "Santa With Butt Plug," a 25-foot high bronze statue sculpted by artist Paul McCarthy for the city of Rotterdam. I just picked it out to illustrate a post I am doing on Art Basel, the Miami art show, even though when I read the fine print I realized this picture was taken at Art Basel, the Swiss art show after…
