Lisson and Gomide & Co. Take Over Mira Schendel Estate

Lisson Gallery and Gomide & Co. now represent the estate of Mira Schendel, ending the Swiss-born Brazilian modernist's 13-year run with Hauser & Wirth. New York–based Lisson and São Paulo–based Gomide & Co. will jointly steward the artist's legacy starting this October cycle of industry moves.

The deal is a homecoming. Schendel showed with Lisson three times beginning in 1968, well before the gallery became a global enterprise. Lisson will include her work in a group show in November 2027, ahead of a major survey of her works on paper, including never-before-seen drawings. The galleries also announced that the Dia Art Foundation acquired Schendel's Still Waves of Probability, with support from Top 200 Collector Ken Griffin.

"Having been an admirer of Mira Schendel's work for many years, and given her long history with Lisson, we are thrilled to announce representation of the Estate of Schendel," Lisson CEO Alex Logsdail said in a statement. "She was an absolute visionary; her practice informed ideas around abstraction, language and concrete poetry, and speaks to inherent beauty."

Philadelphia Museum of Art Gifts Van Vechten Photographs to Chrysler Museum

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has transferred 130 Carl Van Vechten portraits to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. The late New York photographer shot the sitters between the 1930s and 1950s in his West 55th Street studio. The PMA had received the works as part of a donation of thousands of images from John Mark Lutz, a close friend of Van Vechten.

The gift includes 10 portraits of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., the Virginia museum's namesake, who donated his collection to establish the institution. Some images will appear in the Chrysler's upcoming "Define Yourself!" exhibition, opening in November. The museum will mount a 50-work survey of Van Vechten next May.

Board Shake-Ups in Dallas and New York

The Dallas Museum of Art board elected John R. Eagle as chairman for the 2026–27 fiscal year. Eagle, a trustee since 2005, previously served as board president from 2007 to 2013. He and his wife, Jennifer, gave $3 million to the DMA in 2015. Sharon Young, the current chairwoman, will transition to president.

The New York Historical named Arnold Chavkin its next board chair after a unanimous trustee vote. Chavkin joined the board in 2024 and currently leads its education committee. He succeeds Agnes Hsu-Tang, who completed a five-year term and whose name graces the museum's new $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy.

Dealers and Institutions Move People

Candice Madey has joined Josh Lilley Gallery as US senior director. The New York dealer met Lilley in 2009 and has "watched with admiration as he's grown the gallery's reach in the U.S. and internationally," she told ARTnews in an email.

The Chanel Culture Fund hired Amelia Redgrift as head of integrated communications of global arts for Culture & Heritage earlier this month. Redgrift, who reports directly to Yana Peel, president of Chanel's Arts, Culture & Heritage division, left her role as chief communications officer of Pace Gallery in August after six years.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston promoted Layla Bermeo to chair of the Art of the Americas department, effective November 2. Bermeo, currently the department's curator of paintings, focuses on exchanges between the US and Latin America. Her credits include "Collecting Stories: Native American Art" (2018–19), "Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular" (2019) and the reinstallation of the museum's 18th-century Art of the Americas galleries, which opened in June. During her tenure, she helped the MFA acquire modernist works by Remedios Varo and Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe).

Commissions and Gallery Signings

Los Angeles Nomadic Division commissioned LA-based artist Rosha Yaghmai to create a site-specific work for the Ruth Foundation for the Arts in Milwaukee, on view for roughly six and a half months beginning December 11. It marks LAND's first one-work exhibition outside the West Coast in a decade.

Document added photo-based artist Kazuhito Tanaka, who showed at the gallery's Chicago space earlier this year. Tanaka, based in Kyoto, is also an independent curator and founder of the artist-run space Soda.

Charles Moffett Gallery took on LA-based still life painter Hopie Hill, whose next show with the gallery opens in late 2027. Hill showed there in 2025 and presented a sold-out solo booth with Moffett at the FOG Design + Art fair in January.

Big Number: $3 Billion

Ken Griffin donated $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The billionaire collector's gift splits two ways: $1 billion goes to the school in general, and $2 billion will fund a satellite campus in Miami's Wynwood district. Groundbreaking begins next year, with the first Miami students starting in 2028. The campus will enroll some 3,500 students and will not offer traditional majors. It aims to "invert the traditional higher education model" with studies focused on "societal challenges."

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Museums, public and private, are increasingly reuniting the holdings of storied collectors and dealers. By year's end, two such exhibitions will have opened in Europe: "Gustave Fayet: Collector – Designer. Icons of Modern Art" at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (opening October 9) and "Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism" at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which closed September 27.

Paul Cassirer, the subject of the Berlin show, brought Impressionism to Germany and helped its museums acquire top works, yet remains lesser known outside the country for that role. As Kelly Presutti writes in her review for Art in America, "Too often, we try to separate the art market from the museum, as if esteemed collections of now-canonical art could be held apart from the money with which they were bought and the circumstances in which they were sold. This exhibition and the accompanying catalog openly trace the mechanisms by which art crossed borders and exchanged hands."

With Schendel's estate settled at Lisson and Gomide, the 2027 works-on-paper survey and Dia acquisition will test whether the new partnership can broaden the market for one of Latin America's most consequential postwar artists.