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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  • Megan Wilson

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    Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997. Her work has been exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Los Angeles; and internationally in Tokyo, Japan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Paris, France; Jaipur, India, and Manila Philippines. In 2000 she co-founded the on-line publication www. Stretcher.org. She is based in San Francisco.    

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