Damien Hirst Paints Tiffany & Co.

I want to make art, create objects that will have meaning forever. It’s a big ambition, universal truth, but somebody’s gotta do it.
- Damien Hirst

Miami Art Week was exciting, exhilarating and we are grateful to everyone who visited and supported us a Art Miami 2025.

 

There is still much to see, including an installation by British artist Damien Hirst at Tiffany’s in the Miami Design District. Hirst created a butterfly-themed facade on the front of the building and butterflies on canvas in the shop itself.

 

At age 60, Hirst has become one of the world’s best-known and wealthiest artists. He continues to work, travel and is currently raising a toddler with his current partner, Sophie Cannell. 

 

 

In an interview with The Times, London, Hirst said that he has thought of a plan to sell his art for 200 years after his death. It involves making “posthumous drawings” with instructions for art that can be made and sold in his name up to 200 years after his death, to be signed by his descendants. 

 

It’s hard to tell if Hirst is serious about his plan, although placing a shark in formaldehyde, which brought him fame in the art world, is a concept that probably sounded like a crazy idea in 1991, when it was created.

 

Damien Hirst continues to produce work that is beautiful, at times controversial, and always wonderful.

 

---

 

In the late 1970s, Julian Schnabel (b.1951) became part of an art movement in New York that contrasted with the Minimalist and Conceptual Art that was prevailing at that time.

 

 

His works are large, textured and, like his films, are filled with emotion. As a director, he is best known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award.

 

 

Schnabel’s current project is In the Hand of Dante, a film that he directed and co-wrote with his wife, Louise Kugelberg. The film premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival in September 2025 and later opened Tribeca Festival Lisboa in October.

 

---

 

 

Donald Sultan (b.1951) captures the delicacy of flowers with texture, color and industrial materials. Both his paintings and sculptures feel at once heartwarming and resilient.

 

 

“The mimosa in the language of flowers is considered a token of secret love,” he said, “And then I thought, ‘a painting is a kind of love letter to the audience’”.

 

---

 

 

Please contact us if you would like more information about the work of Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel and Donald Sultan available at VFA.

 

---

 

December 9, 2025