June 19 (Bloomberg) — Damien Hirst said he will offer a sculpture of a gold-trimmed bull, The Golden Calf, that he expects to fetch up to 12 million pounds ($23.5 million) at a Sotheby’s London auction of his works in September.
The “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auction on Sept. 15 and 16 is Sotheby’s…
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Advertisements for prostitutes inscribed on walls in the ancient European cities of Ephesus and Pompeii show that graffiti has been with us since antiquity.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that these informal public declarations were elevated from vandalism to art, as works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring entered the galleries. Now the irreverent art form [...]

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Damien Hirst’s most recent work, a bejewelled skull called For The Love Of God, sold last year for £50m. So how much will his acrylic painting of a dying crow fetch at auction?
The little-known work is possibly the oldest surviving piece by Hirst. He produced it when he was 18.
Its owner - a Yorkshire woman [...]

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