Faking a fortune: why Damien Hirst's paintings are poor imitations of art

A Florida pastor has been jailed for trying to sell fake paintings by the British artist. But why does the art world give Hirst's talentless artworks any financial value at all?

Wait, wait. Let me get my head around this. A man has been jailed for selling fake Damien Hirst paintings to an art dealer, having originally bought them believing them to be real?

To add a surreal footnote, he happens to be a Florida pastor. He was judged guilty and must go to jail because by the time he sold them on, he knew them to be fake.

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