Artist throws works by Damien Hirst into bin

An artist will spend the next six week throwing away artworks from the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

Michael Landy opened his 'Art Bin' exhibition in London by hurling a Damien Hirst skull painting - worth thousands of pounds - into a giant perspex bin.

It was quickly followed by a Tracy Emin sculpture which would have also been prized possession for many art collectors.

His idea is that professional artists and members of the public can donate works they perceive as failures to be thrown into the bin. Hundreds have already signed up.

At the end of the six weeks the contents of the bin, a "monument to creative failure," will be taken to a landfill… cue traditionalists saying that's where it belongs.