“Someone once came up to me and said, ‘Why do you make those stupid spots, they’re dumb, an insult to painting," Damien Hirst.

Louis Vuitton joined forces with Tate Modern to support a series of Yayoi Kusama shows at brand’s New Bond Street Maison gallery space.

"The year was full of dismaying sights, as the art world kept jumping the shark," says Roberta Smith as she remembers best of 2011.