Five Artists in the News: Inside teamLab’s Tokyo Light Show, Banksy’s Car Door Heads to Auction and Catherine Opie Visits the Vatican

teamLab unveils its vast, immersive installations in the new teamLab Museum in Tokyo on February 9. My Modern Met provides a sneak peek to the Japanese collective's latest spectacular show.

Catherine Opie is on a bicoastal roll, from LA to NYC. The photographer’s deep dive into the history and architecture of the Vatican City provided the inspiration for her new body of work, which is due to go on show at Lehmann Maupin, New York, on February 8. (HENI News)

Leo Villareal, who grew up in El Paso, was commissioned to create a permanent light installation outside the Texan city’s museum of art three years ago. The $5.5m project called Star Ceiling is now under way, Glasstire reports.

Banksy’s spray painted car door, part of the street artist's 2013 installation in New York’s Lower East Side, is being auctioned by Juilien’s of Los Angeles with a $200,000 upper estimate. The "Crazy Horse" door comes with a paint splattered traffic cone from the same installation, Hypebeast reports.

Arlene Shechet’s solo show kicks off Storm King Art Center's 2024 season on May 4. The veteran artist's new, monumental, gravity defying outdoor sculptures will be complemented by indoor works in wood, steel, and ceramic in upstate New York, Widewalls reports.

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Two environmental protesters hurled soup at the bulletproof glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. The activists demanded “healthy and sustainable food”, The Guardian reports.