Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
Move Over, Golden Lion
If, like me, you’d rather be in Puerto Rico slathering mashed banana on your semi-nude body than braving the forthcoming cold front in New York City, just know you’re not alone. “TROPICALIZE ME!” (2025), pictured above, was performed by Matthieu Laurette at the 3rd Gran Bienal Tropical in December, where the artist took home one of five “Golden Coconuts” along with Poncili Creación, Ángela María Domínguez, Miguel González, and Aldo Álvarez Tostado. Three artists — Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Edgardo Larregui, and Karmadavis — secured the biennial’s highest prize: the “Golden Pineapple,” of course.
Fruit hierarchies aside, this was a big week for art prizes and distinctions. United States Artists (USA) announced the winners of its cushy $50K unrestricted prize, and Creative Capital revealed the recipients of its coveted unrestricted project funding grant as well as a new award, the State of the Art Prize, which grants $10K to 53 individual artists.
- rtadia gave its 2025 SEEN Award to Bay Area sculptor Michelle Yi Martin.
- David Batchelor, Will Boone, Deondre Davis, SoiL Thornton, Gillian Walsh, and Sarah Zapata will be the 2026 artists-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation.
- Pioneer Works in Brooklyn named its 26 2026 Visual Arts and Music Residents.
- The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 31 visual artists selected for residencies at its Center in New Orleans this year.
- Three independent artists’ book publishers — Cahiers Manufactoriel, Gato Negro Ediciones, and Khajistan Press — received the Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant, supported by the Wagner Foundation.
- What Else Happened?
- Caroline Culp is the new curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
- The Fashion Institute of Technology welcomed Jason S. Schupbach as its seventh president.
- The Park Avenue Armory appointed Deborah Warner as artistic director.
- Mariah Keller was named executive director of Wrightwood 659 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
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