New Investigation States Damien Hirst Has Been Misdating His Formaldehyde Animal Sculptures

Damien Hirst is currently exhibiting one of his largest shows to date at a centuries old vineyard-exhibition space in the South of France. On view are a number of new and celebrated works, such as his series of encased animals in formaldehyde. The first work in the latter series was dubbed "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", and made in the 1990s, during the British artist's ascent as he'd win the Turner Prize in 1995. A new investigation by the Guardian, however...