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Franklin Sirmans Elected Warhol Foundation Board Chair: The director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami succeeds scholar Deborah Willis as chair. The foundation also announced that Cheryl Finley, Candice Hopkins, and Suzi Kwon Cohen have joined the board, and that Naomi Beckwith and Cary Davis have completed their terms. Related Articles Leah Ke Yi Zheng Joins Antenna Space, Pérez Art Museum Miami to Honor Nicolas Berggruen, and More: Industry Moves for October 28, 2026 Jeff Koons Talks AI, a $100 M. Modigliani in Paris, and More: Industry Moves for October 21, 2026
Ming Smith and Pepón Osorio Receive 2027–29 CARA Fellowship: Administered by the New York–based Center for Art, Research and Alliances, the fellowship honors “mid-to-late career artists and artists’ legacies across disciplines, with an intention to uplift voices and knowledges that offer alternatives to established historical perspectives,” according to a release. Smith and Osorio will each receive $75,000, as well as support from CARA that can take “different forms, from archival assistance, debt counseling, and legal advice to connections with social services, scholars, curators, and institutions.”
Studio Museum in Harlem Hires Ade Omotosho: As associate curator, Omotosho will oversee the museum’s permanent collection. He took part in the Studio Museum’s six-month Art Leadership Praxis program in 2025 and was most recently an assistant curator at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Gives More Than $400,000 to 41 Artists: Each recipient of the nonprofit’s Creative Research Grants will receive $10,000. The grantees include Marjani Forté-Saunders, Dakota Gearhart, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Harrison Wayne, and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo. The full list is available on FCA’s website.
Artadia Announces 2026 Boston Awardees: The three winners, Cathy Della Lucia, Harry Gould Harvey IV, and Eric Rannestad, will each receive an unrestricted grant of $15,000.
Katie Adams Joins Outside Art Fair as Partner: A longtime supporter of the fair, Adams previously worked at the Barnes Foundation for 14 years in different development roles.
Regen Projects Now Represents Brandon D. Landers: The Los Angeles–based painter is known for his figurative portraits of friends, family, and community. He will have his first solo show with the gallery in January.
Cristina Flores Pescorán Joins Mariane Ibrahim: The gallery will show the textile artist’s work in its booth at MIRA Paris, which runs November 12–15.
American Folk Art Museum Board Elects New President: Christopher C. Giglio, a longtime collector of folk art and a senior managing director at Rubenstein Communications, succeeds Elizabeth V. Warren, who will become president emerita.
MICA Names Four New Trustees: Jeremie D. Talbot, Juliana Diaz, Nicholas B. Hawkins, and Heather McPherson have joined the board of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Talbot and Diaz are both alumni; they earned BFAs in illustration and graphic design, respectively.
That’s how much Christie’s expects Ted Turner’s collection of Western art to bring when it comes to the block on January 20. The top two lots of the approximately 20 works both carry high estimates of $6 million: Alfred Bierstadt’s 1866 landscape painting Yosemite Valley and Thomas Moran’s The Inner Gorge, Grand Canyon. The Bierstadt also had a $6 million estimate when it came to auction in 2003, where Turner bought it at Sotheby’s.
Much has been written about the great wealth transfer and what it might mean for the art world. Will the children of aging collectors be interested in the collections their parents assembled? In several recent instances, the answer appears to have been no, given the major sales dedicated to works from the collections of Rosa de la Cruz, S.I. Newhouse, and Patricia and Robert Weis. One fascinating case study is Ronald Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir who has been a fixture of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list since it began in 1990. This month, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal have both published features about the merger between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Neue Galerie, Lauder’s Fifth Avenue museum dedicated to German and Austrian modern art, ahead of the latter’s reopening tomorrow. Lately, Lauder has been lending his art to museums less frequently and has stopped giving to political campaigns, and one dealer told the FT that he had sold works at Christie’s this past summer. All of this, a spokesperson said, is part of his “long-term philanthropic and estate planning.”
The merger with the Neue Galerie, which opened in 2001, will be completed by 2028. Interestingly, the two papers diverge on the value of the collection, with the Journal saying it’s worth $1.5 billion and the FT valuing it at more than $2 billion. The Met has also raised $200 million for the upkeep of the Neue Galerie, $50 million of which comes from the Lauder family. The FT article gives insight into just how big a role Lauder’s elder daughter, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, who joined the Met’s board in 2023, played in the deal. Her father calls her “the merger queen,” a talent he said she gets from both him and his mother, Estée Lauder. While Met director and CEO Max Hollein told the FT that Lauder had created “not only a beloved institution but a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art,” he admitted to the WSJ that the Met could technically move the works in the Neue Galerie around and that they would fall under its general collection-management policies. Lauder, however, insisted that the “Klimts have to stay in the Klimt room.”