For the unique portrait of the late monarch by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection (GAC) and has found a new home no less than five times over the ...

His art is celebrated and derided in equal measure. But Damien Hirst is in no doubt about his talent - and for good reason. "If I put it in a skip outside a pub, would someone take it home?

2012 will go down in art circles as the year the Damien Hirst bubble burst, said Andrew Rice in Bloomberg Businessweek.Since the early 1990s, the contemporary art world’s reigning enfant ...