$627 Million London Museum Gets Opening Date—and More Art Industry News
Artnet News’s weekly art-industry roundup, published June 22, 2026, reported that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, with groundbreaking targeted for 2028, according to Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani; Herzog & de Meuron is handling the master plan for the broader mixed-use site designed for 450,000 residents. In auctions news, Phillips appointed Annie Wallington as head of modern art in London, and Bonhams’ four-part sale of actor-director Diane Keaton’s estate totaled $4.2 million. The roundup also noted that Pharrell Williams’s Joopiter platform will offer a museum-quality triceratops on July 1 with an estimate of $600,000–$800,000. On the museum front, the new £473 million ($627 million) London Museum outpost at Smithfield Market, designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan, opens November 28, and the $222 million Herzog & de Meuron–designed Memphis Art Museum campus opens December 6.
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