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– 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.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul. ⓒ 2015. Panta Creation, Seoul Design Foundation, all rights reserved.
– 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.
– 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)
– 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)
Beers Gallery. Photo: Damian Griffits.
– 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.
– 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)
Elvira Dyangani Ose. Photo: Ramiie G, courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA.
– 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)
– 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)