Gabrielle Goliath Is Bringing Her Canceled South Africa Pavilion Show to Venice Anyway • Toppled Monuments Are Reappearing Across the U.S. Under Trump • OpenAI Scraps Sora, Its Controversial A.I. Video App

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Gabrielle Goliath Is Bringing Her Canceled South Africa Pavilion Show to Venice Anyway
South African artist Gabrielle Goliath will present in Venice a version of the project that had been planned for South Africa’s national pavilion...

Toppled Monuments Are Reappearing Across the U.S. Under Trump
Contested monuments removed during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests are being reinstalled in the United States during President Donald Trump’s...

OpenAI Scraps Sora, Its Controversial A.I. Video App
OpenAI has shut down Sora, its A.I. video application, according to an Artnet News article published March 25, 2026. The report characterizes Sora...

Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike
A Russian drone strike on March 24, 2026, damaged buildings in the historic center of Lviv, Ukraine, including a Unesco-protected area around the...

Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 M. Home for African Art Collection, One of America’s First
The Brooklyn Museum announced a $13 million renovation to create a dedicated 6,400-square-foot home for its African art collection, with an...

Pat Steir, Famed for Her Abstract ‘Waterfall’ Paintings, Dies at 87
Artist Pat Steir, known for large-scale abstract “Waterfall” paintings made by pouring paint down upright canvases from a ladder or cherry picker,...

Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self
A Hyperallergic review of Tracey Emin’s retrospective “A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London argues that Emin’s work centers on extreme...

Yto Barrada Says France Had ‘Full Awareness’ of Her Views on Israel When It Chose Her for Venice Biennale
Artist Yto Barrada said French organizers had “full awareness” of her views on Israel when selecting her for France’s pavilion at the 2026 Venice...

Ghanaian Artist Ibrahim Mahama Allegedly Assaulted by State Police
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama said he is considering legal action after members of Ghana’s Special Operations Team, known as the “Black Maria,”...

Social Malpractice in the Age of Cultural Compliance
In an opinion essay, an artist-writer argues that socially engaged art is being co-opted by the same institutional, corporate, and political...

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