The South African tradition minister, the right-wing populist Gayton McKenzie, has cancelled the mission for South Africa’s pavilion on the forthcoming Venice Biennale, proposed by the artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo. Goliath and Masondo have appealed to the nation’s president and submitted a case to its excessive court docket to overturn McKenzie’s determination.
Ben Luke speaks to Charles Leonard, who has been reporting on this story for The Artwork Newspaper over the previous few weeks.
Marian Goodman (1928-2026) photographed by Thomas Struth in 2007
Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
The artwork seller Marian Goodman, who based her gallery on New York’s 57th Road in 1977 and represented lots of the world’s main artists over latest many years, has died aged 97. Ben talks to considered one of The Artwork Newspaper’s New York writers, Linda Yablonsky, about this titan of the New York artwork world.
Paul Cezanne, Les joueurs de cartes (The Card Gamers) (1893–1896)
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Patrice Schmidt
And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Card Gamers, made between 1893 and 1896 by Paul Cezanne. The portray is in a significant new exhibition of the French artist’s late works on the Beyeler Basis in Basel, Switzerland. We speak to the exhibition’s curator, Ulf Küster, about it.
Cezanne, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, close to Basel, Switzerland, till 25 MayTo purchase The Artwork Newspaper’s guidebook The 12 months Forward 2026, an authoritative take a look at the 12 months’s unmissable artwork exhibitions, museum openings and important artwork occasions, go to theartnewspapershop.com. £14.99 or the equal in your foreign money.
