Work by Gabrielle Goliath at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Photo Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images Artist Gabrielle Goliath said she and curator Ingrid Masondo are submitting an application for a court case against South African culture minister Gayton McKenzie after he canceled their planned pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Goliath was set to show a …
Bob Ross in his home studio, ca. 1991. Photo Acey Harper/Getty Images Three more paintings by PBS icon Bob Ross are going up for sale at Bonham’s at the end of the month, as part of a group of 30 such works being sold to raise money for the beleaguered public-broadcasting entity American Public Television …
Goodman Gallery’s Johannesburg headquarters. The gallery recently dropped Goliath and more than 10 other artists. Courtesy Goodman Gallery Artist Gabrielle Goliath was dropped by her South African representative, Goodman Gallery, before the cancelation of her proposed Venice Biennale pavilion, according to a report by the Cape Town–based newspaper Daily Maverick from Tuesday. She appears to …
Bose Krishnamachari during a media tour on the eve of the 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in December 2025. Sivaram Venkitasubramanian/NurPhoto via Getty Images Bose Krishnamachari, an artist and curator who co-founded the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) in 2010, announced his sudden resignation. South First reported the news, with a statement from the foundation …
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President Donald Trump. Getty Images The Trump administration is eyeing a Washington, D.C. park for its “National Garden of American Heroes,” according to two sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post. West Potomac Park is south of the National Mall, near memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. and president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just what part …
The Art Mill, an in-progress museum in a former flour mmill in Qatar, reportedly sought to acquire Gabrielle Goliath’s work from her since-canceled Venice Biennale pavilion. Courtesy Qatar Museums Yet more details have emerged surrounding the abrupt cancelation of Gabrielle Goliath‘s planned Venice Biennale pavilion for South Africa, with the Daily Maverick publishing a report …
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where a talk with Basma Al-Sharif is planned to take place on January 21. Photo Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a storied German art school, faced scrutiny this week from three Jewish groups over the invitation of Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma Al-Sharif for an event. Ahead of …
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Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1914–1916 Christie’s. On the night of November 21, 2025, the hammer came down after 20 minutes of heated bidding on Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16), the marquee lot at Sotheby’s New York auction house that evening. Expectations were high, considering that the painting was one of only …
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MacKenzie Thomas performs her four-hour show “I Said What I Said.” Courtesy of MacKenzie Thomas I saw a work this past week that I did not know how to critique. The premise of the performance was simple: MacKenzie Thomas, an internet personality with half a million followers across TikTok and Instagram, would read aloud everything …
Sandra Mujinga at the Park Avenue Armory, where she unveiled a new performance this past November. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews About a decade ago, when Sandra Mujinga visited Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she relished her time people watching, as travelers are wont to do. But Mujinga was not exactly …
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