![The Magazine Interview: Damien Hirst, the original YBA on how money destroyed art — and why he hates that acronym The Magazine Interview: Damien Hirst, the original YBA on how money destroyed art — and why he hates that acronym](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F78d63dd8-db49-11e7-a69e-721d293c9d81.jpg?crop=2667%2C1500%2C0%2C0)
The Magazine Interview: Damien Hirst, the original YBA on how money destroyed art — and why he hates that acronym
![From Damien Hirst's Plan to Torch His Own Artwork to a $6,200 McDonald's Pickle: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week From Damien Hirst's Plan to Torch His Own Artwork to a $6,200 McDonald's Pickle: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2022/07/The-Currency-11.jpg)
From Damien Hirst's Plan to Torch His Own Artwork to a $6,200 McDonald's Pickle: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
![To Rediscover Himself, Damien Hirst Has Returned to His Muse, the Humble Spot. (For a Show in a Mansion.) To Rediscover Himself, Damien Hirst Has Returned to His Muse, the Humble Spot. (For a Show in a Mansion.)](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2018/03/GettyImages-136752303-1024x726.jpg)
To Rediscover Himself, Damien Hirst Has Returned to His Muse, the Humble Spot. (For a Show in a Mansion.)
![Damien Hirst Is No Longer Making His Signature Spin Paintings. Instead, He's Unveiled a New A.I. Generator So You Can Make Them Yourself Damien Hirst Is No Longer Making His Signature Spin Paintings. Instead, He's Unveiled a New A.I. Generator So You Can Make Them Yourself](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/04/38.-The-Beautiful-Paintings-Damien-Hirst-2023-scaled.jpg)
Damien Hirst Is No Longer Making His Signature Spin Paintings. Instead, He's Unveiled a New A.I. Generator So You Can Make Them Yourself
![Meet the Bros Scooping Up Damien Hirst NFTs, What's Behind Downtown's Latest Artist-Gallery Split, and More Art-World Gossip Meet the Bros Scooping Up Damien Hirst NFTs, What's Behind Downtown's Latest Artist-Gallery Split, and More Art-World Gossip](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/07/The-Currency-25.jpg)
Meet the Bros Scooping Up Damien Hirst NFTs, What's Behind Downtown's Latest Artist-Gallery Split, and More Art-World Gossip
Mountaineer Tim, 75, 'admits defeat' after sixth attempt to conquer South American peak | Eastern Daily Press
![Damien Hirst Just Burned Millions of Dollars Worth of His Art in Front of Gleeful Onlookers. Here's What His Collectors Had to Say About It Damien Hirst Just Burned Millions of Dollars Worth of His Art in Front of Gleeful Onlookers. Here's What His Collectors Had to Say About It](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2022/10/IMG_4302.jpg)