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The mega gallery is struggling, Ebony L. Haynes joins Marian Goodman Gallery, longtime Manifesta director steps down, and more in Art Movements.
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
The beleaguered Pace Gallery is in the news again, this time after its United Kingdom tax filings revealed that it lost $5.4 million last year and has a $19.2 million debt-for-equity swap in the works with its US parent company. The filings also outlined plans made in 2025 to cut costs and reduce full-time positions.
The reports come in the wake of an abrupt downsizing over the summer, when the gallery laid off 50 workers and slashed 50 artists from its roster in one fell swoop. (Multiple Pace employees told Hyperallergic that they learned of the cuts only when the New York Times broke the story in early June; one artist said the gallery demonstrated "a callous breach of trust.") Additionally, Pace closed its Hong Kong gallery last October after 12 years and is still looking for a smaller space for its London outpost, which put its 8,600-square-foot location on the rental market in June.
Nine months after Marian Goodman's passing at age 97, her namesake gallery has appointed Ebony L. Haynes as its inaugural senior director and global head of curatorial affairs. Haynes steps into the role after six years at David Zwirner, where she founded and led 52 Walker as a space run entirely by Black staffers. Under her leadership, the Tribeca gallery exhibited work by artists including Arthur Jafa, Cauleen Smith, Pope.L, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Marian Goodman Gallery also announced Rose Lord and Junette Teng, two of its longtime partners, as co-presidents.
It has indeed been a beautiful week in the neighborhood. Brad Lander spent Halloween in a house costume made by his daughter, Rose, days before securing New York District 10’s House seat in the midterm elections on Tuesday; Queens-based organizer and artist Claire Valdez also won her race, becoming the first Native person to represent the state in Congress.
As one commenter observed, you gotta dress for the job you want!