The Newspaper Project

[M] Photographs of the pages from my sketchbook.

London’s Tate Modern gallery is to showcase the first “substantial survey” of contemporary artist Damien Hirst’s work in the UK. A Thousand Years (pictured) was created in 1990 and features an actual life-cycle. Maggots hatch inside a white box, turn into flies, then feed on a cow’s severed head. [M]

Controversial artist Damien Hirst says he expects his work to be criticised and that he does not let it affect him. [M]

On the eve of his first major retrospective in the UK, Damien Hirst takes surrealist comedian and fellow artistic maverick Noel Fielding on an exclusive walk through his show at Tate Modern, providing a behind-the-scenes look at this landmark exhibition and a body of work spanning more than two decades.

The film combines Damien and Noel’s walk through the exhibition with behind-the-scenes footage showing the process of installing the exhibition, from wrangling butterflies to immersing a shark in formaldehyde. [M]

Art critic and former curator Julian Spalding has predicted the conceptual work of artists like Damien Hirst will soon become “worthless”.