Damien Hirst Shows Baby Skull, Says I’m Not Genius, Just Lucky

Damien Hirst smiles as he looks at his new works set out for today’s opening of Hong Kong’s Gagosian Gallery. They include a St. Bartholomew adorned with a detachable fig leaf and a skeleton of a cupid.

Hirst, 45, wears chunky skull rings, a black jacket and trainers with orange soles. The U.K.’s richest artist says that he employs 130 people in seven studios. A total of 25 of them -- not Hirst -- work for two years on each of his photorealistic butterfly paintings.