Two Damien Hirsts Stolen, But Does It Even Matter?

Two signed doesn’t think so.

But even if you find Hirst’s series of paintings with grids of multicoloured circles on a white background attractive, they occupy a very small place in the history of art. In the great adventure that was 20th-century abstraction, the arrival of these coolly planned and professionally executed paintings near the century’s end was a cynical epilogue that replaced the tragic visions of a Rothkowith self-mocking sitcom farce.