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# Warhol Foundation Awards $5.1M to 78 Arts Organizations
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/warhol-foundation-awards-5-1m-to-78-arts-organizations/
- Published: 2026-07-09T20:50:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-09T20:56:36.000Z
- Description: Raphael breaks records at The Met, the Honolulu Museum of Art gets a new director, and more.
- Author: Valentina Di Liscia
- Tags: Art Movements, Community

[*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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### 78 Organizations Get Warhol Foundation Grants

For its spring 2026 grant cycle, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded $5,166,000 to 78 museums, university art galleries, and other institutions across 26 states and abroad. It's also the first time the foundation has a “Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” category, which helps fund artists' projects at spaces with annual operating budgets below $200,000\. Recipients include the art and mysticism nonprofit Golden Dome in Los Angeles, which will use the funds to design a garden in harmony with the celestial bodies according to ancient alchemy.

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### PMA's New Deputy Director of Collections

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/07/Jennifer-Thompson-headshot--1-.jpg)

Jennifer Thompson (photo courtesy PMA)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) has named **Jennifer** **Thompson** as its new deputy director of Collections and Exhibitions, a role that oversees registration, installation, packing, photography, and other critical aspects of exhibiting and collecting art. Thompson launched her career at the PMA in 2001, starting as a research assistant and curatorial fellow before becoming a curator of European art. She's the latest new hire or promotion at the institution, which was recently (and thankfully) [renamed](https://hyperallergic.com/philadelphia-art-museum-says-goodbye-to-pham/) after a controversial, short-lived rebranding. 

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### Acquisitions

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Henri Matisse, "Océanie, le ciel" (1946/48) (© 2026 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

A rare and monumental work by Henri Matisse has joined the collection of the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. “Océanie, le ciel” (1946/48), one of the modern artist's signature *papier* *découpés* or “cut-outs,” is a mural-scale screenprint on linen scattered with myriad abstracted silhouettes — coral, underwater plants, and animals — that appear to float harmoniously across the composition.

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### What Else Happened?

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David Odo (photo Jason Thrasher, courtesy Honolulu Museum of Art)

- **David** **Odo** was appointed director and CEO of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
- **Massimiliano** **Gioni** was named director of the New Museum in Manhattan. Read more at [*Hyperallergic*](https://hyperallergic.com/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-of-new-museum/).
- **Jeanette** **Andrews** is now represented by Trotter&Sholer gallery.
- **Alexander** **Tovborg** is now represented by Olney Gleason gallery.
- The Center for Book Arts announced the winners of its 2026 Chapbook Competition: **Ansel** **Elkins**, **Hajer** **Requiq**, and **Michael** **Prior**.
- The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History awarded its Great Americans Medal to **Melinda French Gates**.

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### Raphael Breaks Records at The Met

![Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w1200/2026/03/DSC09094.jpeg)

Detail of Raphael, “Saint Sebastian in Half Length” (c. 1502–3) (photo Hrag Vartanian/**Hyperallergic*)

*Raphael: Sublime Poetry* at the Metropolitan Museum of Art saw an average of 6,800 visitors per day, a stunning statistic that makes it the highest-attended show at the institution since 2018\. The exhibition, which closed at the end of last month, drew over 562,000 people in total during a run of just three months. In terms of top exhibitions of the decade, it's only slightly behind The Costume Institute’s *Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination* and, of course, *Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer* — proving that the legendary rivalry between these two Renaissance masters persists to the present day, to the delight of all us art history nerds.