Wolf Kahn Foundation opens new space in NYC. A permanent home for the artist's archives, MoMA PS1 is getting a new café, which museum scored a sweet early Rothko, and more in Art Movements. Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings. Wolf Kahn Foundation opens permanent space in NYC. The legacy of Wolf Kahn, the German-born American artist whose lush, hue-drenched landscapes bridged Realism and Color Field painting, is entering a new era with a permanent space for his foundation in New York City. The Wolf Kahn Foundation and Archives at 134 West 26th Street will be open by appointment starting Monday, August 24, one year ahead of the late artist's centennial in October 2027. It's the first designated center for scholarship on the painter, housing a trove of research materials including early studies, letters, lectures, publications, and photographs. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, president of the Wolf Kahn Foundation and a friend of Kahn until his death in 2020, told Hyperallergic that while he traveled widely and lived half the year on a hill farm in Vermont, the artist "always returned to his studio in NYC." "A refugee from Nazi Germany, he rejoined his family in the US, graduated from NY's High School of Music and Art, and after a stint in the Navy, took classes at the New School for Social Research and entered the Hans Hofmann School. He taught at Cooper Union, met many of his artist peers of the day, and helped organize Hansa Gallery," McCulloch-Lovell said. "The Foundation's presence in New York reflects his career and identification as a Second Generation, New York School artist," she added. MoMA PS1 gets a new eatery. In more New York news, MoMA PS1 will open a café led by chef DeVonn Francis in early October. Named Symone and inspired by Francis's Caribbean and Jamaican roots, its menu will feature French-African cuisine, including curry chicken salad sandwiches and patties. The restaurant will soft launch with select menu items during Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair from September 24-27. Sounds mouthwatering - just hope it's not a classic $20 art-world sandwich situation. Acquisitions. * The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson has added a trove of artworks to its collection, including photographs by Tommy Kha, 33 mid-20th-century Choctaw baskets, a hand-drawn abstract composition by Rob Carpenter, and 18 works from Doy Gorton's White South series, photographs taken between 1969 and 1970 that document Southern society during legalized white supremacy. Also among the new holdings is heritage quilter Stephany Brown's "Madea" (2025), a piece inspired by the African-American women "on whose shoulders she stands," in her words. * The Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, scored an exquisite early watercolor and gouache painting by Mark Rothko. "Untitled (wharf, Gloucester, Massachusetts)" (1934), donated to the institution by the artist's son, Christopher Rothko, depicts the city's inner harbor as seen from neighboring East Gloucester, where the painter summered with friends Adolph Gottlieb and Milton Avery. What else happened? * Wolf Burchard was appointed curator in charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. * Elizabeth S. Humphrey was named curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art, a new position endowed by the Peter and Paula Lunder family foundation. * May Makki was appointed associate curator at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. * In the wake of mass layoffs and artist roster reductions at Pace Gallery, two top employees have left their roles, Artnews reports. Amelia Redgrift, the gallery's chief communications officer, and Dani Forest Brandi, a senior sales director, have both stepped down. * The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art named Chris Revelle as its director of Learning and Engagement. * Christine Nyce was named director at Sargent's Daughters. Nikki Myers was named gallery associate. * Jessica Lang was selected as the next artistic advisor for the multidisciplinary residency Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in the Hudson Valley. Wildcard. Digital artist Lily Belmira has created a playable video game based on Michael Heizer's infamously difficult-to-visit Land Art sculpture "City" (1970-2022), which only six people are allowed to visit per day at a cost of about $150 per person. "I didn't like City when I started, and I saw this project as a way to undermine its power," Belmira wrote on her blog. "It's emblematic of a lot of things I don't like about art. If there was some powerful aesthetic experience to have with it, I guess I would be happy to give a lower resolution version of that to a lot of people." Support independent art reporting. Independent, critical reporting is increasingly hard to come by. But you can ensure it doesn't disappear. By becoming a paid member of the Hyperallergic community, you not only help keep its lights on, but ensure its hands (and pens) remain untied. Hyperallergic isn't beholden to large corporations or billionaires. 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Massive Hiroshige collection heads to Christie's - and more industry intel. The Portland Art Museum has a new director, and Frieze Seoul will have a new home in 2027. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Art fairs. - Frieze Seoul will move to the Zaha Hadid-designed Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) for its 2027 edition, due to the planned redevelopment of COEX, where the fair has been held since 2022. This year's fair runs September 2-5. - Art Toronto has announced its exhibitor lineup for the fair's 27th edition, running October 29-November 1 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The fair will feature 105 exhibitors, with Canadian galleries making up more than half the roster, including Bau-Xi (Toronto, Vancouver), Corkin Gallery (Toronto), and Mónica Reyes Gallery (Vancouver). - The third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair will host around 70 galleries - including New York outfits Claire Oliver and Bill Hodges and Nashville transplant ZieherSmith - from October 1-4 at Pullman Yards. Auctions. - Christie's will sell businessman Alan Medaugh's collection of over 600 Hiroshige prints, built over 50 years, starting with a September 15 sale in New York of 180-plus works. - Sotheby's has landed a roughly $450 million tranche of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks from the holdings of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier. Artnet's Katya Kazakina broke the news. (Artnet News) Galleries. - More moves at the Pace Gallery: Amelia Redgrift, its chief communications officer, and Dani Forest Brandi, have resigned. Sources told Daniel Cassady that they are headed to "senior roles elsewhere in the art and culture world." (Artnews) - As financial pressures continue to mount for art dealers, two London gallerists - Kurt Beers of Beers Gallery and Sid Motion - said they will close after 14 and 10 years, respectively. (Artnet News) - Galerie Nordenhake now reps Alfredo Jaar; Antonio Darden has joined Kendra Jayne Patrick's roster; and the Nassau, Bahamas, outfit Tern has picked up Gio Swaby, Marisa Willoughby-Holland, and Richard Nattoo. Museums & institutions. - Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa, has named Elvira Dyangani Ose to be its next artistic director, succeeding the late Koyo Kouoh. She is currently the artistic director of the second edition of the Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial and served as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona for five years, before stepping down in April. (Artnet News) - Michael J. Anderson is leaving the Oklahoma City Museum of Art after seven years to lead the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. (Artnet News) - Martin Clark, who has led London's Camden Art Centre for the past decade, is now the CEO and director of Towner Eastbourne, a contemporary art space in South East England. - Anna Katz will serve as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's inaugural Doris and Donald Fisher Senior Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture. - Anne Reeve, formerly of Washington, D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, is heading to Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., to be its senior curator. (Artnet News) Awards. - The Joan Mitchell Foundation has named its 2026 Fellows: 15 U.S.-based painters and sculptors, including Krista Clark, Beatriz Cortez, and vanessa german. Each will receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding over five years, with the awards totaling $1.3 million. (Artnet News) Article topics