That crazy psycho art bitch Vanessa Beecroft is back... ...and in film this time. Damien Hirst And Matthew Barney Rip The Cynical Naked Breasts Off The Rich White Art Star Bitch a Postmodern Art Performance Piece Submitted to the Whitney Museum of America Art and the N.E.A. To Whom It May Concern: I...

Damien Hirst Opens Second Shop. Bloomberg’s Scott Reyburn reports Damien Hirst is defying the slump in UK consumer spending by opening a second shop in London. “Other Criteria�, the UK artist’s publishing and merchandising company, started the store this week at Fourteen Hinde Street in the ...

The story of Decca turning down The Beatles is very well-known but the most famous British group ever were also turned down by HMV and Columbia before finally being signed. Who signed them? Parlophone, a label dedicated to novelty acts. Wow. While Coldplay aren’t quite as big as The Beatles, t...

Jasper Gerard visits St Alban restaurant in London....

Last year sad old party boy Jay McInerney went to Art Basel Miami Beach, the American version of the fabulous Swiss art fair, and dutifully chronicled the schmoozy, hideous glitz of its high-end billionaire clientele, its so-un-self-aware-it's-almost-hip pretension, its insanely high sales figures. ...

Now that he's worth an estimated $364 million, Damien Hirst is ready to admit that the art market, which has taken quite a dive in recent months, has been "over-priced." In an interview with the UK's Independent, Mr. Hirst said that he would be willing to lower his own--often exorbitant--p...

Yesterday I visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, as usual there was a queue outside which at a guess would have taken around an hour to get in. The queue was only just out of the gates, unlike last time when it stretched 100 meters down the road. The museum is good but no way would I queue for 2 ho...

Last night walking across St James Park, the Carlton Steps and up Regent Street to Piccadilly I obtained an insight into the slime ball world of the paparazzi, those hungry photographers who feel anybody is fair game for the “money shots� which appear in newspapers the next day. Here was the cov...

Last week, we told you about Esquire's new column by author and academic Stephen Marche, the first installment of which focusses on the return of the skull as a fashionable, and sometimes pricey, cultural commodity. The article cites a diamond-encrusted platinum skull that original Young Bullshit Ar...

"Art" is just another headline-filler word for "amazing." At least for children, who are the future, and geeks, who are the new trendsetter-influencer-coolhunters. Since K-12 art education is virtually dead, and no one reads books, these heavy Internet users have no preconceptions of art and they do...