Critic Jonathan Jones on new work by artist Damien Hirst: "The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst's latest works, the artist's name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi." And that's just the first sentence.

A painting depicting the South African president, Jacob Zuma, with his genitals exposed has been vandalized, leading to ugly scenes at an art gallery in Johannesburg.

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  • Kate Mattingly

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    Kate Mattingly is a doctoral student in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds an MFA in Dance from New York University and a BA in Architecture History and Theory from Princeton University, and has been published as a dance critic in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Dance magazine, and The Washington Post among other publications.

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