Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa in Cape City and had been invited to curate subsequent 12 months’s Venice Biennale died on 10 Could. There was an outpouring of shifting tributes to Kouoh from artists, curators and gallerists the world over, and Ben Luke speaks to Nolan Oswald Dennis, the Johannesburg-based artist who has a present present at Zeitz, and Liza Essers, the proprietor and director of Goodman Gallery, about her life and work.
One in every of 5 shortlisted designs within the Queen Elizabeth II Nationwide Memorial competitors
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A design competitors for the Queen Elizabeth II Nationwide Memorial in St James’s Park in London has been launched, with 5 designs competing for the fee. We speak to Sandy Nairne, the previous director of the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London, who’s on the committee tasked with selecting the successful design.
Jasper John’s Regrets, 2013
Assortment of Marguerite Steed Hoffman. Photograph: Jerry L. Thompson, courtesy of the artist. ©2025 Jasper Johns / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2025
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Regrets, a portray from the collection of that identify made by in 2013. The work is mentioned in a brand new e book of writings on Johns by the previous curator on the Museum of Trendy Artwork and of the Venice Biennale in 2007, Robert Storr. We communicate to Storr concerning the work.
Nolan Oswald Dennis: Understudies is at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape City till 27 July.Nolan Oswald Dennis: throwers, Gasworks, London, till 22 June.To see the 5 proposals for the Queen Elizabeth II Nationwide Memorial and provides suggestions go to competitions.malcolmreading.com/queenelizabethmemorial#overview.The chance to offer suggestions on the designs will shut on 19 Could.Robert Storr, Focal Factors: Jasper Johns, HENI publishing, £19.99 (hb).
