Artist Dorothea Rockburne is suing her upstairs neighbor, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo over irreparable damage to a series of her early works, after Costolo’s leaky plumbing flooded into the artist’s loft. “I watched helplessly as the water poured down over the cabinet and onto my early work,’’ she says.
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Phyllida Barlow has been awarded damehood during the Queen’s annual Birthday events in the UK, Art Newspaper reports. Ceramicist Edmund de Waal was also awarded a CBE.
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Hauser & Wirth will open a second Los Angeles space in West Hollywood, the LA Times reports. “Since the beginning, we always thought of L.A. as a city where we would love to have more than one location,” says President Marc Payot. “We really expect L.A. to come back to its full bloom after the pandemic, and this is really the next step for us. It’s first and foremost a commitment to L.A.”
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