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Damien Hirst attacked by Robert Hughes
Not everyone is queuing up to join the adulatory hoopla surrounding Damien Hirst's Sotheby's extravaganza next week. Step forward Robert Hughes (pictured),
the revered art critic, who has fiercely condemned the British artist for "functioning like a commercial brand" and destroying any true understanding of art... [continued]
What they are saying about Damien Hirst 
Damien Hirst’s ‘middling merchandise’
Damien Hirst’s brush with democracy
Pictures of art works in Sotheby's sale
New York warms to Andy Murray
New York's very own tennis great John McEnroe, a regular commentator at Wimbledon, has long been a fan of the tenacity and potential of Andy Murray
(pictured). Now the rest of the city wants to know: who is this man with the spindly frame and surly manner who managed to... [continued]
Sports page: Murray too much for Rafael Nadal
Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson go public at New York Fashion Week
London-born designer Charlotte Ronson made her New York Fashion Week show on Saturday a truly family affair. Her brother Mark Ronson, music producer du jour,
provided the music, younger sister Annabelle was among the models on the catwalk, and their mother Ann Dexter-Jones was in the front... [continued]
More pictures: New York fashion week
Video: Linday Lohan and Sam Ronson
Will Hillary Clinton go after Sarah Palin?
Sarah Palin ‘affair’: big media stay quiet
In brief: Britney Spears wins MTV awards
Britney Spears (pictured), whose career had floundered in recent years, emerged triumphant at the MTV Music Awards show in Los Angeles last night, collecting three prizes for her track Piece of M .............Michael Spencer, billionaire treasurer of the Tory Party and one of the most powerful men... [continued]
Tommy Lee Jones sues Paramount
Tommy Lee Jones (pictured), the actor who was the former US vice president Al Gore's roommate when they were at Harvard together in the late 1960s, has begun a $10m lawsuit against Paramount Pictures following a dispute over his fee for his performance in the Oscar-winning movie... [continued]
Charles Laurence fears the worst from Hurricane Ike
Many readers who followed our New York correspondent Charles Laurence's (pictured) summer series about renovating a beach house on Salt Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands
have contacted The First Post to ask what has happened in the light of Hurricane Ike. The answer is that Laurence... [continued]
In pictures: My Caribbean Hideaway
Concluding episode of Charles Laurence's series
Deborah Meaden in battle over field
Deborah Meaden (pictured), one of the judges on the BBC's hit business television show Dragons' Den, may come across as an icy-eyed toughie but this is often
tempered by her avowal of an ethical and environmental agenda when making her investment decisions. However, her principles are being... [continued]
Evan Davis attacked by David Davis
Micky Rourke returns with a hit
Mickey Rourke (pictured), the hell-raising actor who appeared a few years ago to have squandered his talent and career on a riot of drink and drugs, has made a triumphant
return with his latest film, The Wrestler, which has won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for... [continued]
In pictures: the Venice Film Festival
