Damien Hirst: No Love Lost - Blue Paintings, Wallace Collection

The most famous British living artist's paintings simply aren't very good

Damien Hirst's new exhibition at the Wallace Collection is evidence of a deal between nervous guardians of the past and a contemporary artist seeking to burnish his future historical credentials. It stinks. Entitled No Love Lost, Blue Paintings by Damien Hirst ­ - the clunking allusion to Picasso's Blue Period marks out the scale of Hirst's ambition -­ it presents 25 paintings that we are assured are actually by Hirst rather than a cohort of assistants.

Film Festival Fever

Fantastic Foxes in Leicester Square, spies in Cambridge, bicycles at the Barbican: the pick of the autumn film festivals

Does Britain have too many film festivals? Not so very long ago, there were only two of these games around: the London Film Festival - which unveiled its full line-up this morning and begins on 14 October - and Edinburgh. Now, though, there are hundreds.
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