Art Movements: And the $100K Rauschenberg Award Goes to...
Hyperallergic’s weekly “Art Movements” roundup reported that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth with a one-time set of four $100,000 Rauschenberg Centennial Awards. The recipients named were Senga Nengudi (visual art), David Thomson (performance), Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun (photography), and Patricia Spears Jones (writing). The column also listed major appointments and departures, including Emerson Bowyer becoming chief curator of the Kimbell Art Museum, Julian Cox stepping down next month as deputy director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Madeleine Grynsztejn leaving as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago at the end of the year. Other items included Luciano Johnson becoming the Frick Collection’s chief librarian after leading digitization of more than 1.5 million archival pages, Trevor Paglen winning the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, and Reuters claiming Banksy may be Robin Gunningham—now reportedly “David Jones”—a claim the artist’s lawyer denied.
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