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Industry Moves
- Yoshitomo Nara Heads to David Zwirner: The Japanese artist will continue his relationship with Pace, which has represented him for 14 years, as ARTnews previously reported. Blum, a gallery that previously showed Nara, recently announced plans to close.
- Christine Sun Kim Joins Gallery Hyundai: Currently the subject of a traveling survey that will open next year at the Walker Art Center, she will show her work via the Seoul-based gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Galatea Now Represents Gabriella Marinho: She was selected as one of 10 emerging Black Brazilian artists by MOOC100 and was nominated for the PIPA Prize in 2023.
- John Tain Named Director of Curatorial Affairs at Carnegie Museum of Art: He has previously held positions at the Getty Research Institute, the Asia Art Archive, and the Lahore Biennale.
- Chris Sharp Adds CrossLypka to Roster: The duo (composed of Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka) is based in Oakland, California, and will stage a solo show at Bureau gallery in New York next spring.
The Big Number: 18
That’s the number of months climate activist Timothy Martin will spend in prison for smearing paint on the glass vitrine protecting Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer, Age Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 2023. Found guilty in April of conspiracy and injury to government property, Martin will also pay more than $4,000 in restitution and complete 150 hours of community service, including 20 hours of graffiti cleanup.
Read This
The recent rebrand at the Philadelphia Art Museum—née the Philadelphia Museum of Art—was widely mocked by the public, but it turns out that it wasn’t popular internally, either. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that both workers and trustees alike were displeased with the renaming, with one board member, Yoram (Jerry) Wind, saying that he and his colleagues “never approved it.” Jennifer Rice, another trustee and an ARTnews Top 200 Collector, said that, at the very least, the board “should have been told when the launch was happening.” Whatever really happened behind the scenes, it now seems certain that the museum is experiencing a period of turmoil. Less than a day after the Inquirer story dropped, Sasha Suda, the museum’s director and CEO, was ejected from her post, as ARTnews reported on Tuesday. —Alex Greenberger, Senior Editor
