PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Lynn Zelevansky will become the Carnegie Museum of Art's next director, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Zelevansky joins the Carnegie from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she is a curator and head of the department of contemporary art. She has been at LACMA for 14 years, before which she worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for seven years, in the department of painting and sculpture. She also taught at the New School for Social Research, the Cooper Union, and the Pratt Institute. She takes up her post at the Carnegie on July 15.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Columbus Museum of Art has announced that Lisa Dent will be its associate curator of contemporary art, beginning May 4. Dent was most recently an art dealer, having previously owned and run Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco. She holds an MFA from New York University and completed the Independent Study Program in Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Farewells
NEW YORK—Fashion illustrator Kenneth Paul Block died on April 23 at the age of 84, the New York Times reports. He died of complications from a fall in his New York home. Block began work as a fashion illustrator in the mid-1950s and worked in the industry for almost 40 years. He drew for Women's Wear Daily, serving as chief features artist there for a time, and, later, for W magazine. Block was known for capturing the gestures of his subjects, who ranged from the Duchess of Windsor to Sophia Loren. Last month, he donated 1,844 of his illustrations to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

LOS ANGELES—Artist Ernie Barnes, who had a previous career as a football player, died on April 26 of complications from a blood disorder, reports the New York Times. He was 70. Barnes was an offensive lineman for a series of teams in the old American Football League, ending his career with a season in Canada in 1965. He then began a career as an artist, backed for a year by Sonny Werblin, the owner of the Jets. His drawings and paintings often depict athletes, dancers, and other figures in motion, most of whom are black. His most famous painting, Sugar Shack, appeared on the cover of Marvin Gaye's album I Want You and was shown during the closing credits of the TV show Good Times. Barnes was the official artist for the 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles.