Is Damien Hirst Done?

The problem is not Damien Hirst's borrowing from others, but his own loss of originality

Jonathan Jones
Wednesday October 25, 2006
The Guardian

There was a moment when the whole world was plagiarising Damien Hirst. Films, in the 1990s, had serial killers standing with shark-like grins inside glass vitrines. Wrapping paper came in coloured spots. Museums became self-conscious about the surreal nature of their collections. All this owed its fin-de-siecle vogue to a cocky artist and his obsession with death.

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