Artwork Actions, printed each Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know information, appointments, awards, and different happenings in at the moment’s chaotic artwork world. We learn the press releases so that you don’t must.
What’s Happening on the Venice Biennale?
Robert Lazzarini and curator John Ravenal can be representing america within the 2026 Venice Biennale! Wait, no. It’ll really be sculptor Alma Allen, with curator Jeffrey Uslip. Possibly? Actually, there’s an opportunity the US gained’t even ship a consultant. That may be most becoming.
A New Studio Museum in Harlem
It’s a giant week for New York — a brand new mayor and a newly designed and reopened Studio Museum in Harlem? Workers Reporter Isa Farfan takes you inside.
Extra Gold From the Louvre
Guess what the venerable Parisian museum’s safety password was, in response to PCWorld? Yep, you guessed it: “Louvre.” No, severely. You actually can’t make these things up.
Strikes and Shake-Ups
- Sasha Suda was dismissed from her place as director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork — sorry, that’s really the Philadelphia Artwork Museum, as of a month in the past. What is occurring? Learn our report to search out out.
- The Property of Roger Brown is now represented by Grey Gallery.
- Danielle Charlap was appointed curator on the Wolfsonian–Florida Worldwide College in Miami Seaside, Florida.
- Vasyl Cherepanyn will curate the 14th Berlin Biennale for Up to date Artwork in 2027.
- Natasha Degen was named director of the Sotheby Institute’s New York campus.
- Kwamé Azure Gomez is now represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery.
- Yoshitomo Nara is now represented by David Zwirner in collaboration with Joe Baptista, the artist’s agent and co-founder of Equivalence Artwork Company. Nara’s longtime gallery, Tempo, will apparently proceed to “have a relationship with the artist.”
- Nathan Smallwood was named chief working officer on the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- John Tain was named director of curatorial affairs on the Carnegie Museum of Artwork in Pittsburgh.
This Week’s Winners
- Maurizio Cattelan gained the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie (the Nationwide Gallery Prize, for all you anglophones), one in all Germany’s premier modern artwork awards. He’s additionally in all probability going to be a pair million {dollars} richer after a Sotheby’s public sale in a couple of weeks.
- YoungEun Kim gained the 2026 ACC Future Prize from South Korea’s Nationwide Asian Tradition Heart.
