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Five Artists in the News: Sarah Lucas Likes It Hot, Banksy’s Menagerie Grows and Power Curator Kasper Konig Has Died

3 min read  ·  12 Aug 2024

Sarah Lucas, detail of SIX CENT SOIXANTE SIX (2023). Copyright the artist. Photo by Katie Morrison. Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London

London: Banksy’s menagerie continues to grow. The artist unveiled two new works, a police box turned into an aquarium and a rhino mounting a small car, bringing the total of animal-themed works to eight, so far.

Shows: Sarah Lucas’ first solo museum show in Germany is now on view at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, focusing on the artist’s bawdy humour, Stir World reports.

Market: Eyvind Earle led Bonhams $201,400 California & Western Art online auction. Santa Ynez California Hillside (1969) sold for $12,800, 326% above its low estimate. For all the highlights, see the HENI News report.

Market: Jeff Koons, Encased-Five Rows (1983), a vitrine of suspended basketballs and soccerballs, heads to auction with a $1.17m to $1.47m estimate. HENI News.

Kyiv: Ukrainian artist Bohdan Bunchak, a front-line veteran of the war with Russia, is coping with survivor’s guilt through art, The Guardian reports.

In other news

Profile: Kasper Konig, the veteran museum director, curator and founder of the prestigious Skulptur Projekte Münster, has died at 80.

"‘A lot of Black artists do uplift but I don’t really do uplift. I am an undertaker,’ Arthur Jafa tells the MCA Chicago, as the institution presents a survey of the artist’s work in its collection."

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