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
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
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
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
Mexican Government Searches for Missing Rivera Mural ART SOCIETY Diego Rivera’s mural Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace, 1952, mysteriously disappeared from Mexico fifty years ago, Hugh Dellios writes in the Seattle Times Some think it may be hidden in a museum storage room in Moscow Others believe it went to China, where Mao Zedong had it destroyed, even though it portrayed him and Joseph Stalin as peace-loving figures confronting a war
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…
Bob Hooper - Artforum Throughout Bob Hooper’s exhibition of abstract paintings at Regards is a recurring motif: a “circle-square,” to borrow the artist’s term for it It feels oddly familiar, calling to mind a…
Mary Miss - Artforum Rosalind Krauss’s 1979 essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” pinpointed Mary Miss’s work as an example of how sculpture, landscape architecture, and architecture itself had become problematically entangled over the course of the postmodern 1970s Forty years later, beyond the gallery, the discipline of sculpture has been transformed to include new genres, while recent generations of