Bono and Hirst sign artwork, for you
It was one of the most striking front pages in recent memory. Blood red on the news-stands, the 16 May 2006 edition of The Independent boldly proclaimed that there was "No News Today". But those compelled to look a little closer discovered a chilling footnote: "Just 6,500 Africans died today as a result of a preventable, treatable disease." This stark subversion of the newspaper format was the creation of Damien Hirst, whose macabre artistic meditations on death have earned him the title of king of the British contemporary art world.