Five Artists in the Headline: Catherine Opie’s Beloved Lesbian Bar, Franz West's court battle and Maren Hassinger makes the grade at Dia Beacon

A special solo show of works by Catherine Opie, featuring 60 never-before-seen images, including a monumental shot of The Palms, a beloved lesbian bar in Los Angeles, goes on show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles in January.

Pioneering female artist Maren Hassinger’s Field, a multipart, wire-rope installation she created in 1983, has gone on long-term display at the mostly male-dominated Dia Beacon in upstate New York.

Shirin Neshat tells Performa curator Rosalee Goldberg that she never wanted to make political art but as an Iranian artist in exile in New York it was inevitable. For more, see Interview Magazine.

The long-running legal saga over the estate of Franz West, reportedly worth more than $50m, has finally been resolved. An Austrian court has ruled the sculptor’s art should be donated to the Franz West Private Foundation, which is represented by Gagosian, The Art Newspaper reports.

The Italian artist Giovanni Anselmo has died, aged 89. A leading light in the Arte Povera movement, he was working on a survey show that is due to open at the Guggenheim Bilbao in February, ARTnews reports.