3 min read · 08 Oct 2024
Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission “Mire Lee: Open Wound”. Copyright the artist. Photo courtesy Tate
Shanghai: As Marina Abramovic’s solo show opens at Modern Art Museum Shanghai, she tells the Guardian she is working harder than ever at 77 but wants to keep going. “You really get respect after you make 100," she says.
London: Haegue Yang’s show at the Hayward Gallery “is immense, crowded and completely unrewarding,” writes the Guardian’s critic but Time Out finds the South Korean artist’s Venetian blinds draped over sinks and lightbulbs poetic.
London: Mire Lee’s has transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with a surreal, body-like installation draped around a revolving turbine.
New York: Otobong Nkanga’s installations, which go on show at MoMA this week, can seem simultaneously futuristic and primordial, apocalyptic and utopian, write The New York Times.
Museum: Alexandre Lavet’s hand-painted sculptures were thrown out by a mechanic who mistook them for discarded beer cans at LAM museum in The Netherlands, The Guardian reports.
In other news
London: Shepard Fairey has created a climate-themed mural at the invitation of the US ambassador to Britain but its dedication was targeted by pro-Palestine protesters, the New York Times reports.
"‘I finally got this storage place, so now it’s easy when I want to get something out of it.’ Cindy Sherman tells the designer Simone Rocha how she manages the archive of clothes and shoes she uses in her art."
- Another Magazine