Tag: Damien Hirst

Will Tough Times Trigger Wealthy Banks and Companies to Sell their Art?

LONDON (AP).-Corporations worried about the bottom line are taking a look at their office walls. Over decades, many of the world’s wealthiest banks and companies have built up art collections, rich in modern masters, that are the envy of many museums. …

Saatchi Says He’ll Give Britain His Gallery and Over $37 Million in Art

LONDON.- Art collector Charles Saatchi has a gift for
Britain. It
includes Tracy Emin’s messy bed, Grayson Perry’s explicit pottery and a
room
full of engine oil. The advertising tycoon, whose patronage made
household names
of artists …

Charles Saatchi Donates 200 Artworks Valued at More than 25 Million Pounds, Gallery to UK

LONDON.- Art collector Charles Saatchi has a gift for Britain. It includes Tracy Emin’s messy bed, Grayson Perry’s explicit pottery and a room full of engine oil. The advertising tycoon, whose patronage made household names of artists like Emin and Dam…

Exhibition of Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd Opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Napl…

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