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Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath at Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, Venice, review

Goliath’s work was originally selected to represent South Africa at the Venice Biennale Arte 2026, before being cancelled by Minister Gayton McKenzie on the grounds that its content was deemed too “divisive”. In this iteration, references to the Israeli war on Palestine and the killing of Palestinian poet Hiba Abunada are made, leading to the censorship of Elegy in the official South African pavilion…

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A review of Michaelina Wautier at the Royal Academy of Arts, London / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

It’s an ideal exhibition to learn about Michaelina Wautier as a painter, but it is also an exhibition incorporating a multitude of artistic movements and contexts within art history, a woman’s position in art historical discourse, and technical processes like pigment usage and theories of colour….

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