Five Artists in the News: Barbara Kruger Raises a Riot, Richard Prince Strikes a Deal and Who’s in This Year's Venice Biennale

Barbara Kruger’s new show at the Serpentine in London is “a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump,” writes the Guardian Her trademark graphics are accompanied by a soundtrack, a mix of specially recorded audio snippets and sound leakage, creating a “rattling exhibition”.

Richard Prince and two photographers have settled their long-running legal battle. Prince is due to pay more than $650,000 to them, as well as $250,000 in litigation costs, Hyperallergic reports. Prince did not accept he infringed their copyright, however.

Esther Mahlangu’s retrospective opens at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town on February 18, Sugarcane reports, noting that she was the first African artist to create a BMW Art Car, which is featured. The show is due to travel to the US.

Elmgreen & Dragset and Sarah Sze have been commissioned to make works for the New Orleans Museum of Art, Axios reports. The Scandinavian duo will add a signature, diving-board sculpture to the lagoon in the museum’s sculpture garden and Sze will install a mirrored work from her "Fallen Sky" series.

Ibrahim Mahama will transform the lakeside terrace of London's Barbican art centre with colossal panels of pink and purple fabric, FAD Magazine reports. The Ghanaian artist’s large-scale work is due to take shape from April.

And in other news

Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of this year's Venice Biennale, has revealed the 332 artists whose work will be featured in the much-anticipated main exhibition. There will be well-known female artists, including Frida Kahlo, and recently deceased ones, including Pacita Abad, Etel Adnan and Madge Gill along with several first-time participants. ARTnews lists them.