Hirst Art Leaks

Damien Hirst's Mother and Child, Divided has sprung a leak and has been returned to the artist's London studio. The art work, which is made up of a bisected cow and calf in four tanks full of formaldehyde, has been sent back to the artist so that he can restore it. "A leak emerged due to a flaw in the glass, and some formaldehyde was lost," Gunnar Kvaran, museum art director at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo told the Art Newspaper. The cow and calf had previously been on display at the Tate Britain as part of the Turner Art Prize exhibit. It's not the first time one of Hirst's trademark pickled animals has gone off. Last year Hirst had to replace the rotting shark from his £6.5 million The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Hirst's most recent work has no such fears of decomposition. For the Love of God, which the White Cube sold for a reported £50 million, is a platinum skull encrusted with more than 8,500 diamonds, some of the most durable materials on earth. (For full source and full article click the Headline). Irish Art