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Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world. We read the press releases so you don’t have to.
New York City, According to Curators
To mark MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary, the sixth edition of the museum’s quinquennial exhibition Greater New York will be curated entirely by in-house staff. Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen González, associate curators; Kari Rittenbach, assistant curator; Sheldon Gooch, curatorial assistant; and Andrea Sánchez, curatorial coordinator, will organize the citywide survey with MoMA PS1 Director Connie Butler and Chief Curator Ruba Katrib. Because nothing says “happy birthday” like mandatory overtime! (Kidding, kidding.)
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Glenn Lowry Keeps Getting Jobs
Sailing? Golfing? Making bad macaroni art with grandchildren? Probably not how Glenn D. Lowry, who recently stepped down as director of the Museum of Modern Art after three decades, will be spending his golden years. In addition to unceremoniously announcing that he’ll be advising the notoriously Saudi-backed Islamic Arts Biennale, Lowry is joining the board of the Getty in Los Angeles, the institution announced today.
Palm Springs Art Museum Trustees Jump Ship
Over a month since the Palm Springs Art Museum announced former chief curator Christine Vendredi as its new director, three trustees have stepped down from their posts, reports Christopher Knight for the Los Angeles Times. It’s the latest shakeup at the California museum, which has seen four directors in a span of seven years.
Another Gallery Shutters in SF
After 50 years in the business, Rena Bransten Gallery will close its physical space on Minnesota Street in favor of a nomadic model, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The news comes just weeks after Altman Siegel, another SF stalwart, announced its shuttering, similarly citing industry challenges.
The Art World Carousel
Artist Lava Thomas (photo by Em Monforte, courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman)
- Lava Thomas, pictured above with one of her larger-than-life graphic drawings, is now represented by Jessica Silverman gallery.
- The Carnegie Museum of Art released a sneak peek of its artist list for the 59th Carnegie International next spring: Torkwase Dyson, Alia Farid, Sanchayan Ghosh, Jonathan González, Abraham González Pacheco, Eric Gyamfi, G. Peter Jemison, Liz Johnson Artur, Arturo Kameya, Cinthia Marcelle, Shala Miller, Brooke O’Harra, the Sogetsu Foundation, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi will contribute commissions and projects, with a full list to come in early 2026.
- Allison Blais was named president and chief executive officer of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
- Lisa Brody was appointed curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- Dean Michel of Florida State University and Anna Renken of the University of Toronto won the 2025 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral work from the Graham Foundation in Chicago, effectively making academic writing sound kinda … cool?
- Clarissa Tossin is now represented by Kaufmann Repetto gallery.
Today in Things Nobody Asked For
Anne Imhof, artist of longform performance malaise, has released a new, 10-track album inspired by her Kunsthaus Bregenz exhibition. I listened to the third track, “Emo,” which sounds like what my bangs looked like in middle school, if my bangs were cut with rusty metal scissors that screeched noisily with every snip. You get the idea, no?
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