29 Mar
Don Draper, Kurt Cobain and Damien Hirst sell Nikes

New York graffiti artist Katsu has been bombing NYC with a series of Fake Ads, subverting Nike and MoMa adverts with the likenesses of everyone from Bill Murry, Morrissey and Jay-Z to Steve Jobs, Chief Wiggum and Damien Hirst. He’s also producing a limited run of signed and framed prints available for purchase at Katsu […]


12 Jan
Another brilliant way to get rich while clowning the art world

Remember in 2007 when Damien Hirst took that skull and encrusted it with a bajillion diamonds, and then put it up for sale for $100,000,000? And then remember how nobody bought it, and then at the last second a “mystery” buyer came out of nowhere and salvaged the value of his entire oeuvre bought it? […]


28 Sep
Exclusive design limited-edition high tops from Converse

The newest addition to the Chuck Taylor family is an original design by lauded — and some say over-hyped — British artist Damien Hirst. Featuring a vibrant pattern of butterflies flying on a bright orange canvas, the high top sneakers were inspired by his All you need is love painting. Designed for (PRODUCT)RED benefit, only […]


Boogie Woogie, a new film from writer and producer Danny Moynihan — an integral part of the UK’s much-hyped Young British Artists (YBA) movement — could be terrific, as it satirizes and skewers the very art world from which Moynihan came from. Although many great things have sprung from the soil of the global contemporary […]


3 Mar
Chicago kids return with another groundbreaking video

Having made their name via groundbreaking videos (such as their fan-making and Grammy-winning “Here It Goes Again”), it’s not a shock Ok Go delivers with their latest, “This Too Shall Pass”. Assuming there’s no special effects (doesn’t look like it, but you can never tell), I can’t imagine how time consuming this would be to […]