Art intervention Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited "Away from the Flock" (a sheep in a tank). An artist poured black ink into it, and was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish. The artist's defence was that he thought Hirst would benefit from the publicity and one critic (Tony Parsons) said the artist's action proved that what Damien Hirst does is art. The exhibit was restored at a cost of £1000. A notable case of an unauthorised intervention—which did no damage, yet was still liable for prosecution—occurred at 12.58 p.m. on October 25, 1999, when two artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun
Damien Hirst and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like "A Thousand Years". Hirst gained the European record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist—his "Lullaby Spring" in June 2007, when a 3-metre-wide steel cabinet with 6,136 pills sold for 19.2 million dollars to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar. In June 2007, "Beyond Belief", an exhibition of Hirst's new work, opened at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled "For the Love of God", was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds