Five Artists in the News: Skiing With James Turrell, Andy Warhol’s Suicide and Why Agnes Martin Headed West

Museum: Works by James Turrell, Jenny Holzer and others could be placed on a Utah mountaintop by billionaire Reed Hastings. The co-founder of Netflix plans a “skiable” open-air museum,” The Art Newspaper reports.

Santa Fe: Agnes Martin and Marsden Hartley are two of the artists who found sexual freedom in the American West. They are the subject of a show about queen (and closeted) artists in the Southwest presented by the New Mexico Museum of Art, Hyperallergic reports.

London: The animal-themed work Banksy painted near the entrance of London Zoo has been replaced by a copy by the institution.

Tehran: Andy Warhol's Suicide (1963), a screenprint in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art that it rarely shows, is the subject of a public talk this week, Tehran Times reports.

Miami: Amani Lewis is one of the younger artists who saw their prices soar and then fall in a reported $712 million boom and bust. “It was such a nice high and then it drops,” she told The Times.

In other news

London: The Impressionist masterworks in the Courtauld Gallery were unaffected by a fire that broke out in another wing of historic Somerset House.

Amsterdam: The Hartwig Art Foundation, which was established by billionaire Rob Defares and is led by Beatrix Ruf, plans to turn a former courthouse into an art museum, Ocula reports.