Templon Gallery Closes New York Outpost, Tone Hansen to Lead Moderna Museet: Morning Links for June 9, 2026
ARTnews’s Morning Links for June 9, 2026 reports that Paris-founded Templon Gallery has closed its 6,500-square-foot Chelsea space, opened in 2022, after its landlord sought a major rent increase from the previous $55,000 monthly rate; Mathieu Templon said the gallery hopes to reopen in a smaller Manhattan location, possibly in Tribeca or the Upper East Side. The roundup also notes criticism of Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum for plans tied to a September renovation to replace the term “Nanjing Massacre” with “Nanjing Incident,” referring to killings beginning in December 1937, and includes a statement from Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning urging Japan to reflect on war crimes. It cites a Dutch court sentencing three men to nearly four years (three years and 11 months) for stealing Romanian gold from the Drents Museum in Assen, and mentions other items including a planned Italian arts workers’ strike on June 12 and the appointment of Tone Hansen to lead Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Malmö by Sweden’s Ministry of Culture. The digest also reports a thrift-shop purchase later identified as a Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell painting that sold in Edinburgh for £189,200.
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This story was covered in Museums Under Fire, Identities in Flux