Damien hirst exhibition london

Damien Hirst, the original Young British Artist, stages a retrospective at the Tate Modern from the 4th April – 9th September, featuring the infamous classics: dead animals, dots and even live butterflies.

It opens as critic Julian Spalding encourages owners of Hirst’s artworks to sell up as soon as possible, christening them the ‘sub-prime’ of the art world.

HuffPost Culture's own review found Hirst's retrospective severly lacking, arguing that "Hirst only seems to have two subjects: death, and himself.

This collection illuminates neither in any truly satisfying way."

But what about the rest of the critical world that Hirst has so often divided?

Richard Dorment for the Telegraph awarded the show four out of five stars, commenting "As an artist his work is indeed difficult to take - not because it is dumb, but because no one in his right mind wants to think about the painful subjects it deals with."

Meanwhile Harry Mountis blog for the same paper was altogeth