Remembering Beatriz Gonzalez, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari

"A foundational figure in Latin American contemporary art, her practicewas rooted in local visual culture, including political events, violence, and loss. "While peers like Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton replicated consumer culture and advertising," Silvia Benedetti writes, "González took a more critical view, exploring the complex relationship between the construct of taste and social class.""

"She was the inaugural curator of Ancient Coins at the Harvard Art Museums and a lecturer in its Classics department. Her main areas of study were ancient Sicily, and she carried out the work of arranging the institution's collections of 20,000 Roman, Greek, and Byzantine coins. A long-time curator of fashion and textiles at the Philadelphia Art Museum, she was responsible for maintaining and interpreting its collections of historic clothes and fabric-based art."

"She was fascinated by light and transparency, exploring its interactions with ordinary objects. She believed in the underlying interconnectedness of all things, a quality she captured in moody still lifes. The long-time director of the ,he guided it through the threat of financial collapse in the mid-1990s. Under his stewardship, the museum took on thorny contemporary issues such as the role of monuments and Lost Cause ideology."

A pioneer of Art Informel brought intuitive expressionism into abstraction, cofounded the Hundsgruppe in 1950, and was associated with Vienna Actionism. A foundational figure in Latin American contemporary art rooted practice in local visual culture, addressing political events, violence, and loss, and critiqued the relationship between taste and social class. An inaugural curator of Ancient Coins at Harvard lectured in Classics and arranged collections of 20,000 Roman, Greek, and Byzantine coins. A long-time curator of fashion and textiles maintained and interpreted historic clothes and fabric-based art. An artist explored light, transparency, and interconnectedness in moody still lifes. A long-time museum director guided an institution through financial peril and confronted issues around monuments and Lost Cause ideology.

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