Saatchi sells two Kippenberger paintings

His Pinchuk Art Centre will play host to over 100 works

"A number of interested individuals are looking to purchase the skull at its full price of $100m"

As Tate Britain opens a major travelling retrospective, we examine the factors underpinning the meteoric rise in prices for the artist’s work and reveal the identity of his biggest collectors

The ruling Al-Thanis bought the artist’s Lullaby Spring at Sotheby’s last year for £9.7m and are also believed to have purchased the Rockefeller Rothko for $72.8m

Jyte Dresing has loaned eight works to Copenhagen's Arken Museum of Modern Art

The Pinchuk Art Center was opened 16 September 2006

This change of stance has attracted controversy

All four versions of Mother and Child, Divided, returned to Hirst's studio for conservation

Grayson Perry defrocked

Damien Hirst on world domination, Grayson Perry on turning to tapestry and Anselm Kiefer on why Americans are hysterical

Late collector’s Hirst “chapel” will still open

How the money men have changed the market

The 1991 work, bought by Steve Cohen from Charles Saatchi for £6.5m, has deteriorated because of the way it was made

Some will go on show in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion next year

Other pieces, including a new version of the shark in a tank, have sold to Korea and the US

Also featuring parenting tips from Emin and Tate's spiritually uplifting cabaret

Artists, actresses and property developers compete for the best properties in the area

New Chelsea gallery to show Hirst, Salle and Brown

Published to accompany his show of paintings at Gagosian in New York, it promises much but delivers little

Solicitors say premises were “a disaster waiting to happen”

Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration

Scepticism surrounds the supposed value of $12 million

Shame on the Schadenfreudians

Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?

The Californian post-conceptualist plays the role of artist, curator and collector in his latest piece

The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church

Meanwhile, a dead animal stirs things up in Camden

The businessman, collector, and artist whose department store museum includes work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley

Jewellery at D’Offay, censorship at South London Gallery and Jane Simpson at Gagosian