Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 2026
ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago, will become director of the Getty Conservation Institute in early fall 2026. Berlin-based painter Elif Saydam won the 2026 Tiemann Prize for Contemporary Painting, placing six works from her “Späti Paintings” series into the Hamburger Bahnhof collection for its presentation “A Thousand Times Berlin,” opening June 12. The gallery GRIMM will open a new Amsterdam space on the Leidsegracht in September and launch an artist residency at Château Val Croissant in Provence, while art historian Steven Nelson was named inaugural executive director of the Sam Gilliam Foundation. The article also highlights Sotheby’s London estimates totaling $67 million for two Claude Monet works—Nymphéas (1907) at £30–40 million and Camille assise sur la plage à Trouville (1870–71) at £7–10 million—set for sale on June 24.
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