> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Cyra Levenson to Lead Yaddo Artist Residency - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/cyra-levenson-to-lead-yaddo-artist-residency/ - Published: 2026-10-01T20:55:23.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-01T20:57:58.000Z - Description: Ann Temkins steps down at MoMA, Rose B. Simpson wins the Santa Fe Mayor's award, Roy Lichtenstein x Alex Da Corte, and more in Art Movements. - Author: Valentina Di Liscia - Tags: Art Movements, News [*Art Movements,*](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/art-movements/) *published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.* --- ### Yaddo Names New President Yaddo, the artist residency program in New York's Saratoga Springs, has named **Cyra** **Levenson** as its next president. Levenson, the current deputy director of Learning and Engagement at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, will succeed **Elaina** **Richardson**, who led the nonprofit for 26 years. “For 100 years Yaddo has been dedicated to creative people, to practice and to the magic that happens in community,” Levenson said in a statement. “Artists have a unique ability to see what doesn't yet exist and to metabolize what is happening in the world in ways that others can digest and gain nourishment from.” --- ### Rose B. Simpson Wins Santa Fe Mayor's Award ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/10/2025_02_22_iaia_trustee_portraits_010_w_bw.jpg) Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) (photo Jason S. Ordaz, courtesy Institute of American Indian Arts) Artist **Rose B. Simpson** has received the Santa Fe Mayor’s 2026 Award for Excellence in the Arts in recognition of her discipline-spanning practice and her “leadership, mentorship, and service to emerging generations of artists.” Simpson, who lives and works in Santa Clara Pueblo, has long [advocated](https://hyperallergic.com/rose-b-simpson-embeds-ancestral-histories-in-clay/) for Indigenous cultural life. In a 2025 opinion piece for [*Hyperallergic*](https://hyperallergic.com/we-cant-afford-to-lose-the-institute-of-american-indian-arts/), she decried President Trump's efforts to defund Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Arts, of which she is an alum and trustee. “I believe in the power of offering Indigenous people opportunity and space for investigation — both personal and communal,” Simpson wrote. “I believe in the power of collective strength to lift the voice of our people, to claim our rightful position as leaders of creativity and aesthetic expression.” --- ### Ann Temkin Steps Down at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) longtime chief curator of Painting and Sculpture, **Ann** **Temkin**, will step down from the role in January. She will remain at MoMA in a newly created advisory role, the [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/arts/design/moma-ann-tempkin-curator-duchamp-jasper-johns-retire.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) reported, leading programming for the museum's 100th anniversary in 2029\. --- ### What Else Happened? ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/10/Eva_Sirish_224_web.jpg) Eva Respini and Sirish Rao in the permanent collection vault at the Vancouver Art Gallery (photo courtesy Vancouver Art Gallery) - **Eva Respini** and **Sirish Rao** have been named co-CEOs of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Respini will also serve as chief curator, and Rao will serve as executive director. The museum’s previous director and CEO, **Anthony** **Kiendl**, [departed](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anthony-kiendl-leaves-vancouver-art-gallery-1.7494126?ref=hyperallergic.com) in spring 2025, months after the museum scrapped plans for a new building due to rising costs. - Diné artist and composer **Raven** **Chacon** is now represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins. - The Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed **Colin Fanning** as its new curator of Craft. The role will focus on acquisitions and exhibitions of craft and “maker culture” at the museum's dedicated [Renwick Gallery](https://www.si.edu/museums/renwick-gallery?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Washington, DC. - **Laeh** **Glenn** is now represented by Jessica Silverman gallery. --- ### Acquisitions ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/10/image-1.png) Zoë Pulley at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, where she is currently in residence (photo Valentina Di Liscia/**Hyperallergic*) - The Bronx Museum acquired **Zoë** **Pulley**’s “Elegance No. 1” (2026) from Superposition Gallery's booth at last week's Armory Show for the fair's inaugural Bronx Museum Acquisition Prize. Works by **Lizania** **Cruz**, **Joshua** **Nazario**, and **Theresa** **Weber** wereselected for the Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquisition Prize. - The Dia Art Foundation has acquired **Mira** **Schendel**'s “Still Waves of Probability” (1969). - The Museum of Modern Art has acquired “Effluvia” and “Wake” by artist **Joiri** **Minaya**, from her *Divergences* (2022) series. --- ### Wildcard: Roy Lichtenstein x Alex Da Corte? ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/10/WMAA26143_2019_78_cropped_lpr.jpg) Roy Lichtenstein, "Bellagio Hotel Mural: Interior with Painting of Reclining Nude (Study)" (1997) (image courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art) A major retrospective of Pop Art icon **Roy** **Lichtenstein** opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art next week has an unexpected co-curator: Venezuelan-American artist **Alex Da Corte**, best known for his cheeky video art and installations examiningcelebrity and consumer culture. On October 29, Da Corte will present this year's Walter Annenberg Lecture at the museum to discuss his engagement with Lichtenstein as both artist and curator. In an interview for the [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/arts/design/roy-lichtenstein-pop-art-whitney-museum-alex-da-corte.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), Da Corte told critic and *Hyperallergic* contributor Aruna D’Souza that despite the ubiquity of Lichtenstein’s work, he “had never thought about it in a close way.” “So, for me, it felt urgent to ask, as an artist, how would I want my work to be considered and reconsidered when everyone thinks they know everything about it?” Da Corte said.