Another day, another twist in the saga of South Africa's pick for this year's Venice Biennale.

An investigation has been launched into the country's culture minister, Gayton McKenzie, after his decision to dismiss Gabrielle Goliath from her role representing the nation at the event.

South African Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka has been tasked with examining if the decision is an abuse of power or maladministration.

It comes after McKenzie claimed he made the move after another country, reportedly Qatar, offered to buy Goliath's planned work Elegy which makes references to the conflict in Gaza.

A spokesperson for Goliath told Artnet News his "claims of foreign interference" were a "deflection, intended to draw attention away from his blatantly censorial actions".

British painter Hughie O'Donoghue is staging his first solo show in New York thanks to fellow Royal Academician Sean Scully.

Ten works made over the last 40 years will appear in Time and The Architecture of Memory at 447 Space on West 17th Street when it opens next month.

The gallery was formerly the studio shared by Scully and his wife, Liliane Tomasko, but which they now use to give spaces to artists over 50 who have never had a solo exhibition in New York before.

O’Donoghue, who previously had a residency at London's National Gallery as well as solo shows at Munich’s Haus der Kunst and The Gemeentemseum in The Hague, said his paintings "emerge from personal experience, memory and the process of painting itself".

The weight of the entire stock of a button factory in south London bought by Ai Weiwei after it closed down and shipped to China to be made into eight huge flags to go on show in Aviva Studios in Manchester, in the north of England, from July.

Mexican architects Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo will design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London following in the footsteps of Zaha Hadid, Theaster Gates and Frank Gehry among others.

Their design for the temporary landmark, commissioned every year by the Serpentine Galleries since 2020, features a serpentine wall - also known as a crinkle-crankle wall - made of alternating curves that provide the structure with stability while using fewer bricks than a straight wall.

The building, which will also feature a translucent roof resting on brick columns and a second wall, opens on June 6 and will be home to a series of live events including a celebration of the life and career of Hadid who designed the inaugural pavilion.

Barbie dolls, t-shirts and tequila bottles will share gallery space with more than 30 paintings by Frida Kahlo in a show examining her rise to global icon.

The show, at London's Tate Modern, will examine her posthumous transformation into a feminist icon and cultural and commercial powerhouse.

Currently on show at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, it comes to the UK in June and includes rarely-seen self portraits alongside still lifes and personal photographs and belongings.

Also on show is a portrait of her by her husband Diego Rivera and work by artists who were inspired by her including Kiki Smith, Judy Chicago and Berenice Olmedo as well as more than 200 objects produced as part of the mass-marketing of her image and work.

1 - Tributes have been paid to Artforum's founding editor Philip Leider who has died aged 96. Leider, who supported artists from Andy Warhol to Robert Smithson at the start of their careers, left the magazine in 1971 and taught art history in California and Israel.

2 - Ayoung Kim, Emeka Ogboh, Alvaro Urbano and Pol Taburet are among the winners of this year's Chanel Next Prize. Ten winners each receive $117,258 in unrestricted funding and join a two-year mentorship scheme with institutions including London's Royal College of Art.

3 - Security camera footage from inside the Louvre on the day $102 million worth of jewelry was stolen appears to show security staff retreating as the thieves break into display cases. The footage, obtained by journalists at France Televisions, shows how the gang went unchallenged as they took the artifacts from the Paris museum.

4 - A boom in metal detecting has seen 79,616 finds of historic treasure by members of the public reported last year in England and Wales - up from 53,490 in 2022 - according to the British Museum. Among the items on show at the museum today was a hoard of 179 silver pennies found in Yorkshire, in the north of England, after being buried in 1066 before the Norman conquest.