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Five Artists in the News: Elmgreen & Dragset Make a Splash in Seoul, Yayoi Kusama in Singapore and Renée Green Heads to Dia Beacon

3 min read  ·  04 Sep 2024

Elmgreen & Dragset, Photo by Andrea Rossetti, Courtesy Fondazione Prada

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Seoul: Elmgreen & Dragset’s solo show opens at the Amorepacific Museum of Art, featuring the Scandianvian duo's disused swimming pool among other immersive works.

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Seoul: Frieze Artist Award winner Choi Goen’s new installation, a combination of copper piping and white goods, has been unveiled at Frieze Seoul.

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Singapore: Yayoi Kusama’s touring show, featuring recent works, has reached Singapore on its Asia tour, Time Out reports.

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New York: Renée Green's first institutional show in the US is due to open Dia Beacon in May 2025, featuring historical and newly commissioned work. HENI News

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New York: Jackie Winsor, who rose to fame alongside the Minimalists during the 1970s, has died at 82. ARTnews

In other news

Washington, DC: Bogota-based José Roca has been named the Hirshhorn Museum’s first curator of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art.

"‘I am far from the best artist in Russia, I just happened to be the winner of the Hunger Games,’ says Sasha Skochilenko, who was freed from a Russian prison for her protest art along with the Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich."

- The Art Newspaper