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    British artist's spot paintings at 11 locations

    NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibition featuring hundreds of British artist Damien Hirst's color spot paintings is opening simultaneously at Gagosian Gallery's 11 locations around the world.

    "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011," opening Thursday, is the first time that the art gallery has decided to feature the work of one artist at all its galleries at the same time.

    A total of more than 300 spot paintings will be featured at the various locations: three galleries in New York, two in London and one each in Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Athens and Geneva. The exhibition runs through Feb. 10.

    The gallery held a media preview on Wednesday in New York where the artist posed for cameras but did not speak.

    It said most of the spot paintings are on loan from private collections and institutions.

    The conceptual artist, whose best-known pieces include an actual tiger shark carcass suspended in formaldehyde, created his first spot canvas in 1986. A recent monumental work contains 25,781 spots, each only 1 millimeter in diameter with no single color repeated.

    Hirst has created only a small number of the canvasses himself. He has said his assistants do a better painting job than he could and that he becomes easily bored.

    The gallery said people who visit all 11 locations during the exhibition will receive a signed spot print by Hirst.

    His other works include a human skull with more than 8,000 diamonds and a series of small medicine and pill cabinets.

    A 20-year retrospective of his work is scheduled to open at Tate Modern in London on April 4.

    Hirst was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 1995.

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    19 comments

    • BryceGuy  •  Poway, California  •  4 mths ago
      Proof positive that being a successful artist is 1% artistic skill and 99% having a good agent that will do excellent marketing and promotion for you.
    • Female Boss  •  4 mths ago
      ART? They're nothing more than color samples from a house paint store!
    • Don Hardy  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      This guys work is spot on. Just kidding, I could make better art emptying out my paper hole puncher.
    • truman  •  4 mths ago
      hes not much of a painter, but his sculpure/installations can be outstanding... hugh money will be spent regardless.
    • midworldmosaics  •  London, United Kingdom  •  4 mths ago
      Damien Hirst is not an artist, 'he' is a manufacturer with employees creating a product.
      Art is the only commodity where only a few self-serving individuals determine desirability and need.
      Museums need to install two buttons under each artwork and use the results to determine value - 'Art' and 'Crap'. The Tate Modern would be reclassified as a sewage treatment plant.
    • VET  •  4 mths ago
      What did p.t. Barnum say? There is a sucker born every minute.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      I knew that name rang a bell - I read about something of his in a Dalrymple book. He created a huge facial portrait of a serial child-killer, made out of children's handprints.
      Thankfully, the stuff shown above is just useless, not disgusting.
    • TJ  •  4 mths ago
      I'm seeing spots.
    • Bruce  •  Brisbane, Australia  •  4 mths ago
      I wouldn't wallpaper a litter box with it
    • Wry  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I'm completely underwhelmed.
    • Marvin  •  4 mths ago
      Am i supposed to see something in the spots? I don't get it. I think this is worse than the 4 million dollar photograph of a river from earlier this year.
    • ChrisC  •  4 mths ago
      lol...thats all i can say, this looks like a project done in a color theory class, but still Art is Art!

      @Ccyran
    • John  •  4 mths ago
      what the hell? i see spots......
    • lady-like  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      LOL!!!
    • carlo  •  4 mths ago
      The horror.
    • A LAD INSANE  •  4 mths ago
      Hirst has created only a small number of the canvasses himself.
      He has said his assistants do a better painting job than he could and that he becomes easily bored.
      Well then,how about you stop calling yourself an artist and give credit where credit is due...to your assistants.
      I can't speak for all artists,but I can,as an artist myself say,this guy is a joke.
      Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when George bought "the triangles".
      @ Tony,some find LSD "inspirational" as well.
    • skolasaurus  •  Raleigh, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Eye of the beholder! He's getting paid-seems very retro! I think this looks like the set of "Laugh-In". :D
    • Mike  •  Maidenhead, United Kingdom  •  4 mths ago
      A pile of infantile s***e.
    • TONY  •  4 mths ago
      Looking forward to the retrospective at the Tate! Damien Hirst is a great conceptual artist and I find great inspiration from his work.

      Tony Scrivener
      • Denny 4 mths ago
        Are you on drugs?
      • truman 4 mths ago
        tony is right...great sculpture...minor painter
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