Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
Studio Museum in Harlem Names Three Artists-in-Residence
Multidisciplinary artist Turiya Adkins, artist and curator Timothy Yanick Hunter, and photographer and filmmaker Clifford Prince King have been selected as the Studio Museum’s yearlong artists-in-residence for 2026–27. Starting this November and through October 2027, the three will have individual studio spaces in the institution's new building on West 125th Street. The residency also includes professional development training and material support, and culminates with a group exhibition in one of the museum's galleries. (An exhibition of the latest cohort’s work is currently on view through January 3.)
Brognon Rollin Wins Prix Duchamp
The Prix Duchamp, France's largest contemporary art award, goes this year to Brognon Rollin, the artist duo formed by David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin. Winners receive a €35,000 (~$39,200) prize and participate in an exhibition of works by all four nominees, now on view through February 7 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. The museum’s director, Fabrice Hergott, praised Brognon Rollin’s conceptual practice as “a quiet yet tenacious statement on human vulnerability,” adding that their work “gives tangible form to what usually escapes our gaze: the passage of time spent waiting, addiction and inner resilience.”
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Laura Henno, and Josèfa Ntjam were also nominated for the award this year.
What Else Happened?
- Queer|Art, the Bronx Council on the Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, and Visual AIDS are among the 59 nonprofit art organizations receiving Reserve Fund grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. The awards range from $15,000 to $50,000 and total $1,760,000 in support; see all grantees here.
- Anthea M. Hartig, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Americans for the Arts named Matt Ryan as chief operating officer and Cillonia McKenley as chief development officer.
- Patrick Eugène is now represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles.
- Rachel Kanter and Yana Peel were appointed to the Yale Schwarzman Center’s advisory board.
Acquisitions
- The New York Public Library (NYPL) is the lucky recipient of 250 prints by Kiki Smith, one more fantastic and exquisite than the next. Rich hand-colored intaglios, woodcuts, and artists’ books are part of the trove gifted by her sister, artist Seton Smith, which comprises the most comprehensive collection of Kiki Smith’s prints in the United States. In a statement, Kiki Smith said that she “could think of no more wonderful place for my prints to be.”
- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of Teresita Fernández’s “Soil Horizon (Cleveland)” (2026), a site-specific commission consisting of two large-scale glazed ceramic wall murals. The piece will be on view in the museum’s Jane and Jon Outcalt Family Concourse beginning in February.
Wildcard
For the coda to Seaworld Venice, Florentina Holzinger’s installation for the Austrian Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, the artist will present a “final dinner” featuring all the bodily waste collected from visitors over the past seven months. “Closing Étude” at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice will extend the pavilion's central conceit, which involved filtering urine from on-site port-a-potties into a dunk tank. The “distilled remains serve as a monument for the future” that will be presented outside the closed pavilion on November 22, a statement explains. Okay!