Five Artists in the News: Mire Lee Thinks Big for Tate Modern, a Vast Sandy Calder Gift in Seattle and Swizz Beatz Will Have a Show in Venice

Mire Lee follows up her critically acclaimed show at the New Museum in New York with the prestigious Hyundai commission in London. She will create a monumental work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in the fall. Last year, The Times profiled the artist, a rising star from South Korea.

A Sandy Calder exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum is a potential game changer. Generous museum patrons Jon and Kim Richter Shirley have gifted 48 pieces and plan to donate more in the future, ARTNews reports.

Swizz Beatz will unveil an immersive soundscape during the Venice Biennale. The producer and art collector has created a work called Sonic Levitation, which will be on show alongside glass sculpture by Arne Quinze’s in the church of San Francesco della Vigna, Artsy reports.

Günter Brus has died at the age of 85. The avant-garde Austrian artist and central figure in the Viennese Actionist movement caused an uproar in the 1960s with his radical performances.

Cecilia Vicuña’s major retrospective, which is drawing to a close at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires(MALBA), highlights the Chilean artist and poet’s links to the Andes mountains, pre-Columbian textiles, feminist struggles and eroticism, reports Artnexus.