Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah ... Finally, there was that $100 million diamond-encrusted skull. At the time, it seemed interesting, even though the object itself ...

Three Damien ... at art galleries around the world, in Hong Kong, New York, Munich, London and Oxford. A key part of their appeal was the belief they dated from the 1990s, during Hirst's Turner ...

But then the opportunity came to make an actual piece of art myself for the magazine: with none other than Damien Hirst, who invited ... rocket, shark, skull; I chose a circle, and got spinning.