"Although the AGO had planned to jointly purchase Goldin's moving-image work Stendhal Syndrome (2024) with the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) and Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, it pulled out in mid 2025 after its modern and contemporary curatorial working committee voted 11-to-9 against it. The move was unexpected, especially as the AGO already had three Goldin works in its collection. (The VAG and Walker Art Center proceeded with the joint acquisition.)"
"some committee members alleged that remarks Goldin made in a 2024 speech at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerieabout her "moral outrage at the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon" were "offensive" and "antisemitic". Speaking at the Berlin opening of her traveling retrospective, Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well, the artist also said that to call anti-Zionism antisemitic was a "false equivalency used to maintain the occupation of Palestine"."
A leaked memo revealed the resignations of a senior curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario and two volunteer collections-committee members after the committee voted 11–9 against acquiring Nan Goldin's moving-image work Stendhal Syndrome (2024). The AGO had planned a joint purchase with the Vancouver Art Gallery and Walker Art Center but pulled out in mid-2025. Some committee members labeled Goldin's 2024 Berlin remarks expressing "moral outrage at the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon" as offensive and antisemitic. Other members rejected that characterization, arguing the remarks were not antisemitic and that refusing the work amounted to censorship. The VAG and Walker proceeded with the acquisition.
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