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# Art Movements: And the $100K Rauschenberg Award Goes to...
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/gemini-said-art-movements-and-the-100k-rauschenberg-award-goes-to/
- Published: 2026-03-19T20:15:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-19T21:04:08.000Z
- Description: Winners of the Rauschenberg Centennial Award, Madeleine Grynsztejn leaves MCA Chicago, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
- Author: Lisa Yin Zhang
- Tags: Community, Art Movements

[*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.*

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### A Birthday Present From Rauschenberg

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the painter and multimedia artist's birth, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is presenting a one-time award of $100,000 to four artists. **Senga Nengudi** won the Rauschenberg Centennial Award for visual art, **David Thomson** for performance, **Chandra McCormick** and **Keith Calhoun** for photography, and **Patricia Spears Jones** for writing. 

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### What Else Happened?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/GA7A0231.jpg)

Photo of Trevor Paglen by Michael Avedon (© Trevor Paglen; courtesy Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, New York; and Trevor Paglen, Brooklyn)

- **Emerson Bowyer** was named chief curator of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
- **Julian Cox** will step down as deputy director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario next month, after [controversy](https://hyperallergic.com/nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-censorship-at-art-gallery-of-ontario/) over a halted plan to acquire a Nan Goldin work.
- **Madeleine Grynsztejn** will depart from her post as director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the year.
- The Frick Collection has a new chief librarian! **Luciano** **Johnson**, whose accomplishments include leading the Mellon Foundation-funded digitization of over 1.5 million pages of archival materials at the museum, begins his new role next week.
- **Jitish Kallat** will be the next president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2027.
- **Helen Legg**, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, was named artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- **Jac** **Leirner** is now represented by Nara Roesler gallery.
- **Liz** **Munsell** was named Powerhouse Arts’ new vice president of Curatorial and Arts Programs, and **Constanza** **Valenzuela** was named associate curator at the Brooklyn organization. The appointments come as Powerhouse Arts prepares to launch the inaugural edition of its art fair, Conductor, in April.
- **Trevor** **Paglen** is the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award.
- **Smiljan Radić** was awarded the Pritzker Prize in architecture, which was delayed this year following revelations about sponsor Tom Pritzker’s [ties](https://hyperallergic.com/art-collectors-patrons-named-in-unsealed-epstein-documents/) to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- **Alissa Schapiro** was named senior curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley.
- **James Taylor-Foster** was named executive director of Para Site in Hong Kong.
- **Toleen Touq** was appointed curator for MOMENTA 2027 in Montreal, Canada.

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### Wildcard

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/image-64.png)

Banksy’s 2025 mural (screenshot Rhea Nayyar/**Hyperallergic* via [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DKPUg56MqyT/?img%5Findex=1&ref=hyperallergic.com))

Banksy's been unmasked ... maybe? Reuters [claims](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to have identified the elusive graffiti artist as a man once known as Robin Gunningham, now reportedly going by "David Jones." I think "Banksy" has a better ring to it, personally — some things might be better left a mystery. The artist's lawyer, for the record, has fiercely denied the claims.