Damien Hirst’s iconic series, involving dead animals preserved in tanks, is reported to have leaked potentially-dangerous formaldehyde gas during the artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern in London in 2012, The Guardian reports. Levels of the carcinogenic gas were detected in the air during the 2012 show at the Tate Modern gallery by researchers testing a new sensor, and were only recently published in the scientific journal Analytical Methods.
21 April 2016.