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Five Artists in the News: Refik Anadol’s AI Museum, Pipilotti Rist Goes to the Opera and March Avery’s New Auction Record

3 min read  ·  25 Sep 2024

Pippilotti Rist’s safety curtain at the Wiener Staatsoper. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Museum in Progress/Wiener Staatsoper

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Los Angeles: Refik Anadol plans to open an AI museum called Dataland in downtown LA, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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Madrid: Works by Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning among others will feature in the Mapfre foundation's next exhibition. It will reprise Peggy Guggenheim’s landmark, all-female “Art of This Century” show, Artnexus reports.

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Vienna: Pipilotti Rist’s operatic safety curtain received its premiere this week at Vienna State Opera. Instagram

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New York: March Avery’s Dark Inlet set a new auction record for the veteran artist when it sold for $47,500 at Swann Galleries, 16% above her previous record sale. HENI News

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Los Angeles: Wendy Red Star has joined Roberts Projects, which recently presented its first solo show of the artist’s work, reports GalleriesNow.

In other news

Beirut: Artists and gallerists are determined to continue their work despite Israeli airstrikes that have led to many institutions closing, The Art Newspaper reports.

"‘You didn’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt.’ Michael Craig-Martin recalls the moment he could become a professional artist, too."

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