3 min read · 07 Aug 2024
Yayoi Kusama, Infinite Accumulation at Liverpool Street Station, 2024. Copyright the artist. Photo Thierry Bal. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro
London: Banksy is on a summer spree. So far this week he has unveiled three animal-themed works across the city, featuring a goat, elephants and the latest, monkeys on a railway bridge.
London: Yayoi Kusama’s first, and long delayed, public work of art in London has arrived at Liverpool Street. Infinite Accumulation is a series of steel arches and mirrored balls, which stretches almost 100m near the entrance of a new Elizabeth line station.
Los Angeles: Jean Mannheim’s auction record jumped 27% when the German-American artist’s painting, The Fairy Tale (Jeanne and Eunie Mannheim Reading in the Garden), sold for $95,800 at Bonhams. HENI News
Market: George Keyt’s Untitled (Lovers) (1981), led Bonhams South Asian Art auction. It sold for $26,100, 103% above its $12,900 low estimate. For all the highlights, see the HENI News report.
Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Foundation will sell works on Ebay to help raise possibly $1.5m for US visual arts organisations. The sale coincides with what would have been Warhol’s 96th birthday, The Art Newspaper reports.
In other news
New York: The 2026 Whitney Biennial will be co-organized by Marcela Guerrero, the museum’s first curator of Latinx art, and Drew Sawyer, its curator of photography.
"‘Put Janet Sobel on your list. She is the best woman painter by far.’ Peggy Guggenheim wrote, championing the female artist whose drip painting also impressed Jackson Pollock."
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