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Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This story originally appeared in\u00a0On Balance,\u00a0<\/em>the ARTnews\u00a0newsletter about the art market and beyond.\u00a0Sign up here<\/em>\u00a0to receive it every Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n Artists Hellen Ascoli and Jos\u00e9 Morb\u00e1n Selected for Delfina Foundation Residencies: <\/em><\/strong>The two artists will head to London for 12 weeks via support from the Jorge M. Perez Collection and El Espacio 23, the top collector\u2019s Miami exhibition space.<\/p>\n Storm King Art Center Names 2026 Artist Residencies:<\/em><\/strong> Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty, Jennifer Harley, Mimi \u1eccn\u1ee5\u1ecdha,\u00a0Sasha Wortzel, and Chunghee Yun make up this year\u2019s cohort, which gives artists \u201ca process-focused experience on the museum\u2019s 500-acre grounds in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley\u201d and is done in collaboration with Shandaken Projects.<\/p>\n Serpentine Galleries Names Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology: <\/em><\/strong>The London-based museum has announced a multiyear collaboration with Formafantasma, a research-based design studio founded by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin that \u201cexplores the environmental, historical, political, and social forces shaping contemporary design,\u201d per a release.<\/p>\n South Arts Announces Open Call for Summer 2026 Grant Cycle: <\/em><\/strong>Applicants have until September 30 to submit three categories\u2014Arts in Community, Emerging Traditional Arts, and In These Mountains Infrastructure Grants\u2014to the Atlanta-based organization that supports artists working in the Southeast US.<\/p>\n New Bedford Whaling Museum Promotes Ymelda Rivera Laxton: <\/em><\/strong>The Massachusetts museum has elevated Rivera Laxton to the role of curator of contemporary art and community projects, with her first major project being the institution\u2019s new Welcome & Exhibition Center, opening in 2027.<\/p>\n \n\tThat\u2019s the combined sales total that Sotheby\u2019s and Christie\u2019s reported for the first half of 2026. For its part, Sotheby\u2019s notched $4.4 billion, up 58 percent from the previous year, while Christie\u2019s raked in $4.5 billion, marking its strongest first half since 2021. While Sotheby\u2019s and Christie\u2019s might best be known for their auctions (both live and online), a growing portion of their businesses now comes from private sales: $826 million for Sotheby\u2019s and more than $1 billion for Christie\u2019s. As ARTnews<\/em>\u2019s Daniel Cassady noted, Sotheby\u2019s business portfolio now includes lending, securitizations, luxury real estate, restaurants, and cultural programming. \u201cThe result,\u201d he writes, \u201cis a company that resembles an investment bank or private wealth adviser as much as it does an auction house.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIs it ever possible to separate an appreciation of an artist\u2019s work from the facts of his or her life?\u201d That\u2019s a question that writer Rebecca Mead poses in a New Yorker<\/em> piece about Ana Mendieta, who is the subject of a Tate Modern retrospective that opens to the public today. One of the year\u2019s most-anticipated exhibitions, the survey brings together many of her iconic works, including her long-running \u201cSilueta Series,\u201d alongside newly remastered films. The curators have foregone a more traditional telling of Mendieta\u2019s theme, organizing works around themes like the River and the Sacred Ground, which Mead reports \u201cresists the dark pull exerted by Mendieta\u2019s biography.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tThe biographic detail that most haunts Mendieta\u2019s legacy is her death in 1985, for which her husband, artist Carl Andre, was tried and acquitted. That tragic moment was sensationalized in the press and for years was among the first things mentioned when discussing her work and legacy. To seemingly head that off, the Mendieta estate, which recently joined Marian Goodman Gallery, created a \u201cFact Sheet\u201d ahead of the Tate show that stated \u201cAna Mendieta\u2019s death does not define her, or her art.\u201d Speaking to Mead, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, the artist\u2019s niece who now heads the estate, pointedly added, \u201cThat\u2019s a second of her life, right? It\u2019s a blip. She shouldn\u2019t be defined by something that happened to her. She should be defined by what she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/storm-king-delfina-residencies-industry-moves-july-15-2026-1234792292\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Sasha-Wortzel_Dreams-of-Unknown-Islands.jpg?w=1024″] Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0This story originally appeared in\u00a0On Balance,\u00a0the ARTnews\u00a0newsletter about the art market and beyond.\u00a0Sign up here\u00a0to receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Artists Hellen Ascoli and Jos\u00e9 Morb\u00e1n Selected for Delfina Foundation Residencies: The two artists will head to London for 12 weeks via support from the Jorge M. 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Big Number<\/strong>: $8.9 billion<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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