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Five Artists in the News: Keith Haring’s Carousel, Backing for Candice Breitz and Daido Moriyama’s erotic essays revisited

3 min read  ·  20 Dec 2023

Keith Haring painting the carousel. Copyright Keith Haring Foundation, courtesy Luna Luna

Keith Haring painting the carousel. Copyright Keith Haring Foundation, courtesy Luna Luna

A 1980s art carnival called Luna Luna has been resurrected by Drake in a Los Angeles warehouse and Keith Haring’s carousel is among the attractions that you cannot actually ride. The New York Times joins the crowds and enjoys the spectacle.

The Greek Foreign Minister is seeing red about Georgia Lale’s textile piece Neighbourhood Guilt, a riff in pink on the national flag. He now wants the artist’s comment on violence against women pulled from a show at the nation’s New York consulate, Balkan Insight reports.

The German Academy of Arts has criticized cancelling artists such as Candice Breitz, whose solo show was pulled by a German museum after she commented on conflict in Gaza, The Art Newspaper reports

Japanese artist Daido Moriyama created typically edgy photo stories in the 1980s for a radical magazine, the negatives of which are long lost. Now, his contribution to issue one of Shashin Jidai, which sold out in a flash, has been lovingly recreated in a new publication. Dazed provides a peek inside.

A major museum exhibition of Kim Lim’s minimalist sculptures is now on show at the Hepworth Wakefield, shedding light on the British-Chinese artist who has long been overshadowed by her husband William Turnbull.

In other breaking news

A new Las Vegas Museum of Art, a high-profile partnership between major collector Elaine P. Wynn and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has received the green light from politicians in the Nevada city, KTNV Las Vegas reports.

Drop of the day

Check out Daniel Arsham's colab with Tiffany & Co: a bust inspired by the artist’s riff off the Venus of Arles in the Louvre and a limited-edition bracelet, now on view at the company's flagship store in New York. See Lifestyle Asia.

The artist with Tiffany and Daniel Arsham Studio Amalgamated Bust

The artist with Tiffany and Daniel Arsham Studio Amalgamated Bust