NEW YORK—Haunch of Venison has announced its international representation of artist Adam Pendleton. The artist, who creates conceptual, multi-disciplinary art that "works to create a re-historicized present," will have solo exhibitions at HoV Berlin in January 2009 and HoV New York in fall 2010. He will also give three performances at Manifesta 7 over the duration of the biennial. Pendleton's work was included in recent group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He also had a recent solo show at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.

OTTAWA—David Franklin, the deputy director and chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, has gone on indefinite leave. An e-mail from gallery director Pierre Théberge informed the gallery's staff of the departure, without providing a reason or return date, and according to the Globe and Mail, many staff members do not expect Franklin to return. He was organizing the institution's main summer 2009 exhibition of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, as well as a large Caravaggio exhibit planned for 2011 or 2012. Mayo Graham, director of outreach and international relations at the gallery for the past 10 years, will temporarily replace Franklin in his absence.

LOS ANGELES—Clara Kim has been appointed gallery director and curator of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT). Kim has served as the REDCAT's acting gallery director and curator since the July 2007 departure of Eungie Joo, the organization's founding director, and first joined the institution at its inception in 2003 as associate curator. Before that, she worked as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Walker Art Center. Kim is currently working on upcoming projects with Berlin–based artist John Bock, Tokyo–based architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow, and Lebanese/New York artist Walid Raad, among others.

Farewells
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Sherman E. Lee, former director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, died on July 9 at the age of 90, the Associated Press reports. Lee joined the Cleveland Musuem in 1952 as curator of Oriental art and was appointed director in 1958. He served as director for 25 years, during which time he expanded the museum's Asian art and Old Master collections. He worked previously at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Seattle Art Museum. He also taught art history at Case University and the University of North Carolina.

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco–based, Beat-era artist Bruce Conner died on July 7 at the age of 74. Connor moved to San Francisco in 1957 and became a part of the Beat community, creating assemblages of found materials and household objects. He gained art-world and independent film attention for his works A Movie and Crossroads, both avant-garde mash-up films of footage from B-movies and newsreels. He was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, was the subject of a 1999–2000 touring survey, and is featured in the current Carnegie International. Connor falsely announced his own death twice, once sending an obituary to a national art magazine and later when writing a self-description for the encyclopedia Who Was Who in America.