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Five Artists in the News: Kirsha Kaechele Heads Back to Court, Anne Imhof Hits Back and When Art Met Life at the Chelsea Hotel

3 min read  ·  24 Jul 2024

Anne Imhof, Installation view of Wish You Were Gay. KUB Billboards. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo by Markus Tretter

New York: Works by David Hockney and Jim Dine led Christie's $1.55m Contemporary Edition auction. For all the highlights, see the HENI News report.

Hobart: David Walsh's Mona will appeal to Tasmania’s Supreme Court in a bid to re-open Kirsha Kaechele's women-only art installation, Ladies Lounge, ABC reports.

Legal: Anne Imhof’s billboard art has been attacked in Bregenz, Austria. The artist described the vandalizm as a “hate crime”, The Art Newspaper reports.

London: Peter Kennard’s protest art and photo-montages on show at the Whitechapel Gallery deliver “electrifying visual shocks”, writes The Guardian.

San Francisco: "Amy Sherald: American Sublime", which is due to open at SFMoMA in November, will feature For Love, and for Country (2022), a painting the museum has recently acquired. HENI News.

In other news

London: Tomato soup thrown at a Van Gogh in the National Gallery acted like “paint stripper” on the painting’s frame, a court has heard. LBC

"‘I got into the elevator one day and in walked a young woman with a bullwhip.’ David Remfry, an unofficial artist-in-residence at New York’s Chelsea Hotel during its heyday, recalls portraying its colorful residents."

- The Guardian