At 6ft tall, the package was tubular in shape and large enough to contain a shark - crushing my mother's hopes for a diamond skull. Without a van to drive us back to my studio the only clear option was a ride on the 73 bus, with the Damien Hirst reclining on the seat beside me.

Damien Hirst has redesigned this year's Brit Award statue. Perhaps appropriately for an award ceremony many people believe enjoyed its best days ba...

Damien Hirst's solo show, complete with a rotting cow's head and a shark suspended in formaldehyde, helped Tate Modern attract a record-breaking 5.3 m...

Any celebrities who have been on the receiving end of one of Harry Hill's surreal jibes on TV Burp will be well aware of the comedian's unique sense o...

What have been your biggest art stories of the past 12 months? Picking just ten was difficult. In a year that saw London show off the best of Briti...

After 430 years observing the Gregorian calendar, we've become a species of habits. At this time of year chief among them is looking back on the pr...

The art world, and particularly how we foster and develop it in Britain, is in a period of crisis. And if you haven't noticed that, then it's a worrying testament to the way we debate and celebrate the creative processes in this country.

Damien Hirst's controversial statue of a naked, pregnant woman wielding a sword has taken her place on a Devon seafront. The 20 metre (66ft) bronze...

A collection of artists as diverse as those involved with the new AKA Peace exhibition should be used to handling unusual materials and objects in the...

Tate Modern's Damien Hirst exhibition smashed records to become the most popular solo show in the gallery's history, it announced today. The exhibi...

Damien Hirst's plan to decorate a small seaside town with a 65ft-high statue of a naked pregnant woman has gone one step closer to becoming a reality...

Alice In Wonderland, The Wasteland and Harry Potter - all of these literary giants have featured the ancient game of chess. And while it has also ...

I thought I knew Damien Hirst. The one who puts dead animals in formaldehyde. Made a skull of diamonds. Did some things with coloured dots. Made me think: "Modern art? Rubbish. Anyone could do that." Well, turns out I was wrong. The current Tate Modern retrospective has changed my mind - and made me something of a fan in the process.

A 66ft (20m) statue of a pregnant woman by the artist Damien Hirst could become a new landmark in a historic seaside town. A planning application p...

Artist Damien Hirst and his longterm live-in partner have separated after she left him for a former mercenary. Hirst and Californian fashion design...

When Damien Hirst unleashed his diamond-encrusted skull onto an unsuspecting public in 2007, most of us gasped in horror at the sheer vulgarity of an ...

Earlier this year, I embarked on a journey which saw me take 11 flights, crossing three continents, visiting 11 art galleries in eight cities and sleeping on six couches to amass over 30,000 air miles in just 14 days.

The news that this year’s Turner Prize nominees include a performance artist called Spartacus and a man who fills imaginary worlds with faeces barel...