3 min read · 29 Aug 2024
Universe of Water Particles on a Rock where People Gather at teamLab Borderless in Tokyo. Courtesy of teamLab
Tokyo: teamLab’s "Planets" exhibition in Tokyo attracted 2.4 million people last year, who paid approximately $25 each to experience the collective’s digital works, writes Observer.
San Francisco: Rachel Jones’ new work in her show at the Museum of the African Diaspora, her first institutional exhibition in the US, features the artist’s first abstracts on linen, ARTnews reports.
New York: A print of Hokusai’s most famous work, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, heads to auction at Bonhams with a $700,000 estimate. HENI News
Museum: The future of seven of Mark Rothko’s "Seagram Murals" is uncertain as is the rest of the collection of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, as Japan’s loss-making chemical company, DIC Corporation, takes stock of its assets, ARTnews reports.
Seoul: Sean Scully’s latest solo show opens in the South Korean capital to coincide with Frieze art fair. He tells The Times why a trip to Morocco as a young artist turned him into an abstract artist.
In other news
Buenos Aires: the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires is expanding. Its second space, MALBA Puertos, opens in September in the city's Zona Norte, reports Arte al Dia.
"‘Given a choice between back-stabbing and front-stabbing, I prefer the latter, and front-stabbing is what you get in New York.’ Sean Scully explains why he will never leave the city, although for the time being he is back in London."
- The New York Times