Hirst to Get First U.K. Retrospective at Tate for Olympic Year

Damien Hirst will get his first U.K. retrospective in 2012, as Tate Modern schedules a survey of his career around the 2012 London Olympic Games, Tate said today.

Some seventy works by the British artist -- including his shark in formaldehyde, “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991) -- will go on display in the exhibition, which is sponsored by the Qatar Museums Authority. A room will be devoted to works from Hirst’s “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” sale, which raised 111.5 million pounds (then $199 million) in September 2008. The Hirst show runs from April 5 to Sept. 9, 2012.