The curatorial team established by the late Koyo Kouoh for this year's Venice Biennale will give more details of their vision for the event later this month.

Kouoh made history in 2024 when she became the first African woman appointed artistic director for the prestigious event, but died of cancer aged 57 last May only days before she was scheduled to announce the title and theme of the 2026 Biennale.

Her vision has instead been implemented by a curatorial team including Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Helene Pereira, Rasha Salti, Siddhartha Mitter and Rory Tsapayi who are all scheduled to speak at a press conference alongside Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco on February 25.

The event, whose title In Minor Keys was decided by Kouoh before her death, will run from May 9 to November 22.

The amount of debt owed by the California College of Arts, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The art school, which has been in the Bay Area since 1907, recently announced it will shut next year making 530 staff unemployed.

There are mixed messages from the commercial gallery world with one well-known name expanding operations as others shut down.

Thaddaeus Ropac announced the appointment of Emilio Steinberger as its senior director in the US where he will help run its New York space after years working in the city with the likes of Levy Gorvy Dayan and Robert Miller Gallery.

At the same time, it emerged London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery has closed and gone bankrupt with ARTnews reporting it had losses of around $2.3 million in 2023. Around 40 staff are expected to lose their jobs.

New York's Mnuchin Gallery has also announced its closure following the death of its founder, Robert Mnuchin, in December while Houston's Texas Gallery has shut after 50 years and is moving to "online sales and exhibitions as well as archive and estate management".

1 - Osaka-born Takesada Matsutani is celebrating 60 years living and working in Paris with a show in London. Shifting Boundaries at Hauser & Wirth runs to April 18 and includes sculptures made with his signature materials of vinyl glue and graphite.

2 - Templon New York is marking its 60th anniversary with a show of work by Ivan Navarro. The electrically animated sculptures date back as far as 2004 and include a recreation of his piece, Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker, which is in the collection of the city's Guggenheim Museum.

3 - Italian painter Davide Balliano has moved away from monochrome for his show at Tima Kim gallery in New York. The gallery said the show, which opens tonight, includes his "debut of works in color" and takes its title, Abacus, from a poem by Sandy Florian.

1 - Farewell PhAM. From now on it is back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art after its board voted unanimously to return to its old name. The institution was roundly mocked after previously announcing it had changed its name to the Philadelphia Art Museum as part of a rebranding exercise in October.

2 - Visitors to the latest exhibition at Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art are being encouraged to take some of the work home. Asad Raza's installation Absorption includes heaps of artificial soil made from fried chicken bones - complete with bags so visitors can help themselves.

3 - Christina Barrera and Keli Safia Maksud are the recipients of this year's Queen's Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists. They each get $20,000, the chance to work with staff at the museum in New York, and solo shows next year.

4 - A pavilion of Gerhard Richter works is expected to open in Qatar in November. Sheikha al-Mayassa, who chairs Qatar Museums, told an audience at Art Basel in Doha the "complicated and complex" project had been almost 10 years in the making.

5 - The Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in East Sussex, England, will close temporarily on February 23 in response to its "challenging economic context". It said the "planned pause" would give it time to consider its "next phase".