Damien Hirst is stirring the pot in the UK press with the sort of the provocative quotes like the one below where he claims to get his inspiration now from his children’s art work. Meanwhile, Christie’s is making a stab at reviving the Hirst market later this week with three different Hirst works in the sale. One is a gimmicky spot painting that references Mickey Mouse but more seriously there are two works bought directly from White Cube that will provide a reference on whether the market still esteems some of the work that was once most admired:

“My 18-year-old came home one day and he’d made a huge mosquito out of plastic boxes and it had a straw for a point and wings made with string, so I took them to the foundry and had it cast in bronze, the same size. It’s not a massive effort to do that.”

Damien Hirst: I copy my children’s art (Telegraph)