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Artist Damien Hirst has apologised for comments he made in a video essay on the events of 11 September. He is of course no stranger to shock. "What I like is that contradiction: a really gorgeous photograph of something horrific." When he said this, Damien Hirst was referring not to 11 September but to his adolescent fascination with illustrated pathology books. His "interest in wounds" included pictures of burns victims and those affected by venereal disease. "The photographs are so delicious - you are in people's pants." His taste for the macabre has clearly not left him. But to shock...

Damien Hirst has apologised unreservedly for congratulating the September 11 hijackers on a "visually stunning" work of art. Thanks to pressure from some New York art dealers no doubt - Ivan The British artist, famous for displaying animals in formaldehyde, said he was sorry if he upset families of the victims by calling the terror attacks "an art work in its own right". Proving yet again he wouldn't know real art if it bit his bum off. - Ivan He said on the eve of last week's first anniversary of the New York and Washington attacks: "Of course, it's visually...

Brit artist outrages 9/11 families Families of Sept. 11 victims joined New York leaders in denouncing shock artist Damien Hirst yesterday after he contended Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen "need congratulating" for their "visually stunning" atrocity. Hirst, who has made a fortune trotting out animal cadavers as conceptual art, says the World Trade Center attack was "kind of like an artwork in its own right." "It was wicked," the British gallery huckster allowed in an interview with the BBC News Online. "But it was devised in this way for this kind of impact. It was devised visually. You've got...