Damien Hirst is reportedly planning to write his autobiography, despite the artist’s claim that he can’t remember most of his twenties.  The artist announced his intent to pen the story of his hard partying and decadence as part of the YBA’s early this week, but has admitted on several occasions that about ten years of his life are a complete blank, due in part to the same hard living he plans to document. (more…)

Painter Eric Fischl sat down with the LA Times this past weekend to discuss his career, the communication of art, his recent memoir, Bad Boy, and his self-described “search for normal.”  “I think the process of aging and using art as a life process for learning, understanding, evolving, etc. … it seemed like I had reached a point where I could take a lot of what I accomplished and I could let go of a lot of things, so maybe it would be recent.”  He says. (more…)