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For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull chronicles the making of one of the most extraordinary 21st century art pieces that Hirst, or any other artist for that matter has made.

Void presents masterpieces from Hirst's Heiner and Celine Bastian collection and includes prints, sculptures, and installations.

I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now showcases a dynamic and provocative collection of Hirst's ideas and obsessions with a combination of text and visual elements.

Damien Hirst Superstition boasts 30 of his beautiful butterfly pieces.


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I've always loved the Damien Hirst art used on the album cover (above) because it reminds me of my favorite thing to do as a child (and as an adult)—spin art! Known as the "Bad Boy" of art, Damien Hirst is a British-born artist who has been claimed to be the richest and most controversial living artist to date. He led a bit of a troubled life in his early years but blossomed once he found his niche studying fine arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works, and he is also well known for, of course, his spin paintings and his spot paintings. Here are a few of my favorite pieces of his work, each with a little edge, a little humor and lots of color. Why is it that we always love the bad boys?


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Hirst is definitely known for his dots, spin art, and death themes. These pieces are a few great examples of those themes! From left to right: Aurous Iodide silkscreen, Hallucinatory Head mixed media, and Valium screenprint


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Happy Head In doing all of our homemade spin-art for this issue, the spin art color schemes became so interesting to me! I absolutely love Happy Head, it's earthy but still vibrant and fun. Some people find these pieces a little disturbing, but art isn't always suppose to be settling, is it?


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Supreme skateboards Hirst teamed up with Supreme and the outcome is amazing. These spin art skateboard pieces are so cool! I'd love to hang them anywhere from a kid's playroom to my living room!


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Lullaby Spring A telephone bidder paid $22.8 million including commission, for this piece, Lullaby Spring, an almost ten-foot-wide steel pill cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and individually painted pills! Wow!


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Dark Rainbow Dark Rainbow in resin is a piece of art that you can really sink your teeth into!


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Deck Chairs, anyone? Damien Hirst deck chairs? I don't think I'd let anyone sit in these, but they sure do look good! You can find them on www.artnet.com.


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Beautiful Love Demelza His Beautiful Love Demelza piece contains spin art, hears, and butterflies?? How can you go wrong? The most beautiful thing about the piece is that he donated the proceeds to the Demelza Hospice Care for Children.