Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026

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Industry Moves

Hammer Museum Board Elects New Leadership: The trustees of the Los Angeles museum have selected Eric Esrailian to be chair and Karen Hillenburg vice chair. Three new members have joined the now 24-person-strong board: Leslie McMorrow, Alicia Miñana de Lovelace, and Joan Weinstein. Additionally, the board of advisors has added five to its ranks: Robyn Field, Jordan S. Goodman, Allison Gorsuch Corrigan, Ayesha Selden, Akio Tagawa.

ADAA Foundation Announces $10,000 Grants to Four Museums: The Art Dealers Association of America’s philanthropic arm has selected the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, and the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, as the recipients. Awarded annually and primarily funded by the ADAA’s membership, the funds go toward exhibition development, curatorial research, and public programming.

Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac: The London-based artist is known for his vibrant paintings depicting the city’s reggae and dub scenes. Artist Alvaro Barrington included Forrester in a 2019 group show, “Artists I Steal From,” at the gallery. Ropac will have two works from 2025 by the artist in its Frieze London booth next month.

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Adds Citra Sasmita to Its Roster: The London-based gallery will co-represent the self-taught Balinese artist with Singapore’s Yeo Workshop. Sasmita will have her first solo show at Hjellegjerde’s outpost in West Palm Beach, Florida, in December.

Jessica Silverman Takes on Two Painters: California-based Laeh Glenn will have her first solo show at the gallery in May 2027, while Berlin-based Oliver Osborne will have his second exhibition with Silverman in 2029.

Jane Lombard Gallery Now Represents Adam de Boer: The Los Angeles–based artist previously showed with the gallery in its booth at Frieze LA in 2025. He will have his first solo with Lombard in 2028.

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Names New Executive Director: Currently senior curator of American art at the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey, Tricia Laughlin Bloom will be only the second director since the foundation’s founding in 1976.

Keith Haring Foundation Hires Alison Coplan: The current chief curator of the Swiss Institute in New York will be the artist foundation’s director of strategic initiatives. Her responsibilities will include projects spanning publishing, institutional partnerships, licensing, communications, and special initiatives.

Big Number: $160 B.

That’s the amount of wealth that Bloomberg estimates has exited the UK in the past two years, based on data gathered for its Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That churn has largely to do with the Labour Party assuming power, leading to the “abolition of perks that benefited the ultra rich, and near constant speculation that more measures are coming” and a sense that “the country is becoming less business-friendly,” reporter Benjamin Stupples writes. While some of the wealth is being redistributed from the UK to these billionaires’s respective home countries (like Egypt and Denmark), Bloomberg reports that majority of the moneyis heading to the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Monaco.

Read This.

All eyes seem to be on Roy Lichtenstein right now, as the Whitney Museum prepares to open a long-awaited retrospective to the Pop artist later this week. ARTnews deputy editor Alex Greenberger got an early look at the exhibition, titled “Like New.” Though he takes issue with that misnomer of a title—“given that it doesn’t radically upend one’s understanding of Lichtenstein”—he finds that what the exhibition’s curators, Meg Onli and Alex da Corte, do well is show how the artist “saw our pictures-obsessed moment coming,” as he was most interested in “mean-spirited aesthetic thievery more so than anything else.” For more Lichtenstein coverage, ARTnews has reported on the Whitney’s collaboration with Gap tied to the exhibition and updated its article looking at the artist’s top auction results.