Edward Leffingwell, 1941-2014
Edward Leffingwell, curator, writer and former Brazil correspondent for A.i.A., 72, died on Aug. 5 from cardiac arrest after a long illness. Working in New York and Los Angeles, Leffingwell…
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Harun Farocki, 1944-2014
Harun Farocki, a prolific German filmmaker whose works were often shown in international art museums, died July 30 at 70. The cause of death has not yet been released.
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Emily K. Rafferty, Met Museum President To Retire
Metropolitan Museum of Art president Emily Rafferty, 65, will retire in spring 2015, after 11 years in the position and nearly 40 years at the New York museum.
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Otto Piene, 1928-2014
Otto Piene, German artist and co-founder of the postwar art group Zero, died July 17 in Berlin at 86.
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Brian Gayman, 1948-2014
Brian Gayman, 65, died July 1 in Melville, N.Y., after complications following a heart attack. Gayman had been exhibiting sculpture and photography in New York City and elsewhere since the early 197…
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Lydia Yee Hired as Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery
Lydia Yee will be chief curator at London's Whitechapel Gallery. Yee has been curator at London's Barbican Art Gallery since 2007. She will take up her new position in February 2015.
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Magnus Renfrew to Bonhams as Asia Deputy Chairman
International auction house Bonhams has hired Magnus Renfrew as deputy chairman and director of fine arts, Asia. He will work out of the company's Hong Kong headquarters and will take up his new pos…
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Jonathan Binstock Named Director of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery
Jonathan Binstock has been named director of the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, N.Y. He succeeds Grant Holcomb, who retired this month after a nearly 29-year tenure. Binstock wil…
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves, 1963-2014
Abstract painter Jennifer Wynne Reeves died Sunday, June 22 at 51 from brain cancer. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., the artist had lived in New York State for nearly 20 years. Her works combined painted…
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Shortlist Revealed for Pinchuk’s $100,000 Future Generation Prize
The PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine, has announced the nominees for the third edition of its Future Generation Prize, a $100,000 award given biannually to an artist up to 35 years old.
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