Happy Valentines Day, suckers: how Damien Hirst’s cashing in on Cupid
The artist’s latest show, featuring banal images of love hearts and butterflies, looks like an attempt to squeeze money out of innocent punters
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Has art boxed itself into a corner?
They’ve starved, stripped and suffocated. We’ve seen them sleep, do shopping and read out lists. Now, PJ Harvey wants us to watch her record a whole album while she sits in a big box. Time to pack in art’s most claustrophobic trend?
How Monet became blue chip: the language of wealthy art buyers
Painting of the Grand Canal expected to fetch up to £30m, amid surging interest from super-rich in Asia and Middle East
Going, going, gone: how Sotheby’s and Christie’s still lose out on big sales
Despite increasing prices of art, big profits do not always trickle down to auction houses – thanks to generous guarantees to ultra-rich sellers
Rowan Moore’s top 10 exhibitions of 2014
Parking lots in Los Angeles, arty wind tunnels, Dada collages and 1960s visions of future living – Rowan Moore picks his favourite shows of the year
Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 – as it happened
We’re at America’s biggest art fair, where artists, architects, collectors and celebrities hit Miami Beach to buy cutting-edge work by day – and go to parties by night