Oscar Murillo - Artforum Murillo’s latest works, part of an ongoing series titled “manifestation,” 2018–, flout lockdown doom and gloom with their energetic gestures, vibrant colors, and monumental scale
Cheung Yee (1936–2019) - Artforum The Chinese artist Cheung Yee, a pioneer of the contemporary art scene in Hong Kong, died in Los Angeles on December 4 at the age of eighty-three The Hong Kong…
Luciano Perna (1958–2021) - Artforum Conceptual artist Luciano Perna, known for his typically absurd Arte Povera–influenced found-object sculptures and his quietly evocative photographs, died December 28 in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the…
R. Crumb As the father of comix, R Crumb is a near-mythical figure in American counterculture The illustrated escapades of Mr Natural, Fritz the Cat, Big Baby, and other memorable characters are droll sociopolitical commentaries that flout American puritanism From underground comics championing the hippie movement (free love! LSD! women’s lib!), to a solicited yet never published New Yorker cover
Liz Munsell Named Vice President of Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts Liz Munsell Photo: Xavier Petromelis Contemporary art curator Liz Munsell has been named Vice President of Curatorial Arts and Programs at Powerhouse Arts, a creative arts nonprofit based in Brooklyn’s Gowanus, the organization announced this week Munsell has previously held curatorial leadership roles at the Jewish Museum in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard
Richard Smith (1931–2016) - artforum. com Richard Smith, 1975 Photo: Rowland Scherman Courtesy of The Rowland Scherman Project WHEN RICHARD SMITH, the British painter who spent much of his life in the United States, passed away in Patchogue, Long Island, on April 15 at the age of eighty-four, he was less well known than when he first came to New York, on a Harkness Fellowship in 1959 He had every opportunity to grab the brass ring