Met to display Hirst’s shark

Visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art soon will be able to see one of contemporary culture’s most startling artworks: Damien Hirst’s 13-foot tiger shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde.

Its owner, hedge-fund manager and art collector Steven A. Cohen, has lent the work for three years. The 22-ton piece will be on view by Aug. 29.

The 1991 work, whose full title is “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” was bought by Cohen for $8 million in 2005.