Five Artists in the News: Yoko Ono Looks Back With Laughter, Amoako Boafo Makes His Mexican Debut and Remembering Alice Mackler’s Late-Career Success
3 min read · 05 Feb 2024
Amoako Boafo, White Pearls (2023). Image courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
Alice Mackler, who has died aged 92, spent much of her life in obscurity, painting in her spare time but she achieved late-career success in her 80s. Her strange clay figures were first noticed by critics when shown in New York in 2013.
Yoko Ono shares with The Sunday Times’ critic Waldemar Januszczak her favourite works ahead of her Tate Modern retropective, including the outrage caused in London by her 1966 “bottoms film”.
Amoako Boafo makes his Mexican debut at Mariane Ibrahim in Mexico City. The Ghanaian painter's solo show is among the exhbitions that make the cut in Cultured Magazine’s guide to the city's buzzy art week.
NFT artist Ryder Ripps must pay Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs nearly $9m. Additionally, a US judge ordered Ripps and an associate, Jeremy Cahen, to transfer any infringing intellectual property, Cryptonews reports.
Marc Quinn recalls how "all hell broke loose” when his sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant was unveiled on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square in London in 2005. “People were writing to the papers saying 'It’s disgusting'”, he tells The Guardian.