A Canadian museum's decision not to acquire a video work by Nan Goldin has proved costly with three volunteers and a senior member of staff all resigning over it.

The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto had planned to buy Goldin's Stendhal Syndrome jointly with the Vancouver Art Gallery and Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center but decided against it.

Documents seen by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper show the decision by the gallery's modern and contemporary collections committee came after one member, Judy Schulich, criticized Goldin as a propagandist and said the work was not as important as some of her others.

The newspaper also reported committee members said they had been offended by her views on the conflict in Gaza after a speech she gave in Berlin in 2024 criticizing Israel.

Three volunteer members of the committee have now resigned along with the gallery's modern and contemporary curator, John Zeppetelli, who spoke in favor of the acquisition.

A spokeswoman for the gallery, which already owns three works by Goldin, said "personal political views were brought into the conversation," which were "not intended to be part of the process".

You can buy jewelry, jigsaws and socks all emblazoned with Claude Monet's Water Lilies - and now the paintings have inspired a West End musical.

A Mirrored Monet, which has its London premiere in March, is set in 1916 as the French painter wrestled with his work against the backdrop of World War I.

The story, based on his letters and diaries from the time, also examines his early days with contemporaries Renoir and Manet and his muse and first wife Camille Doncieux.

Its writer Carmel Owen said she was fascinated by his status "both as an artist and as an Everyman".

Monet is not the first painter whose life has inspired a London stage show. Vincent Van Gogh's time in the capital was retold in Vincent in Brixton at the National Theatre while The Collaboration at the Young Vic explored the relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Donmar Warehouse's Red looked at Mark Rothko's creation of the Four Seasons restaurant murals.

South Korean painter Chung Sang-hwa has died aged 94.

He was a pioneer in the Dansaekhwa movement creating minimalist monochrome canvases using clay and a limited range of colors.

In a 2023 interview, he told curator Hans Ulrich Obrist he was never satisfied with his work saying: "Art, in a way, is about beginning something endless. It’s not about making an end. It’s about doing something endless."

He lived in Japan and France as well as his native South Korea and his work can seen in major museums including Hong Kong's M+ and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.

1 - New York's Studio Museum will stay closed for more than a week for repair work to water damage caused by a faulty sprinkler that went off on Friday. The museum, run by curator Thelma Golden, will be closed until 11am Saturday February 7. Its new David Adjaye-designed $160 million building in Harlem only opened in November.

2 - Ai Weiwei returned to China last month for the first time in a decade after years of state harassment forced him to leave in 2015. He told CNN the three-week visit to Beijing "felt like a phone call that had been disconnected for 10 years suddenly reconnecting".

3 - Alison Weaver has left the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, where she was founding director, to run New York University's Grey Art Museum. Her time in Texas included overseeing the design and construction of the center which opened in 2017 and has hosted exhibitions by Olafur Eliasson and Sofia Crespo.

4 - The sale of three Bob Ross paintings at auction raised more than $1 million to support public TV. All three were originally made for episodes of his popular show, The Joy of Painting, and were sold to benefit US public broadcasters which have lost billions of dollars in federal funding.