LONDON—Contemporary artists Bob and Roberta Smith and Wolfgang Tillmans have been appointed trustees of the Tate by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, FAD.com reports. Artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, currently lives and works in London. He is known for artwork that incorporates text — often commenting on art, politics, or popular culture — in his unique, brightly colored lettering style on banners and discarded boards of wood. German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who was first recognized in the early 1990s for his pictures of friends and other young people in his social circle, has also gained recognition for his wall installations combining portraits, still lifes, and landscapes with abstract and sculptural photographic works. Smith and Tillmans will serve terms of four and five years, respectively, and join fellow artists Jeremy Deller and Anish Kapoor on the board.

PURCHASE, N.Y.—The Neuberger Museum of Art has named editor, author, and scholar Patrice Giasson the museum’s curator of art of the Americas. This new position was created as a result of a one million dollar bequest from the estate of the late Alex Gordon. Giasson comes to the Neuberger following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Research Center on Art and Languages/École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In addition to his new position, he will teach classes in Purchase College’s department of art history and organize a lecture series at the Neuberger that will begin in the fall.

PARIS—Stéphane Delorme will be the new editor of the monthly French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and will lead its redevelopment under the new ownership of Phaidon Press (French newspaper Le Monde had owned it since 1998). Delorme, 35, has written for the magazine since 1998 and has been a member of its editorial committee since 2001. He has also served on the selection committee of the Directors’ Fortnight film series, an annual event held independently from but parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. He will put together a new editorial team and has already selected Jean-Philippe Tessé as his deputy editor. Tessé, who has been a member of the Cahiers du Cinéma editorial committee since 2003, has experience as a film journalist, festival programmer, and radio broadcaster.

MISSOULA, Mont.—Brandon Reintjes will be the new curator of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture at the University of Montana. Reintjes has just received his master’s of art in curatorial and critical studies from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. While there, he worked for two years in the office of the director of the Speed Art Museum. Before graduate school, Reintjes spent four years as curator of exhibitions and collections at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana, and worked at the Akron Art Museum in Ohio. At the Montana Museum, he will oversee the permanent collection and the exhibitions program, as well as liaise with the regional artist community.

Farewells
BERLIN—Ingeborg Hunzinger, one of former East Germany's best-known sculptors, died July 19 at the age of 94 in Berlin, the Austrian Press Agency reports. Best known for her work Block der Frauen (Block of Women), which serves as a memorial of a protest against the Nazi deportation of Jewish men staged by their non-Jewish wives in Berlin's Rosenstraße in 1943, Hunzinger, herself a Jew, was forbidden to work under the Nazis but allowed to flee to Italy. After the war she returned to Berlin, where she taught at the Art Academy in Weißensee and worked on her art daily until her death, most recently on a bust of the leftist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.

VENTURA, Calif.—Master potter Otto Heino died July 16 of acute renal failure at the age of 94, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Finnish-American Heino, who called himself the "oldest, richest potter in the world," was internationally renowned for his vessels made in a style that blended Scandinavian modernism and Japanese folk pottery. Along with his late wife, Vivika, who was also a potter, he symbolized the midcentury California studio crafts movement. The couple established a gallery, now closed, called the Pottery in 1973, and in the mid-1990s they reformulated a Chinese glaze that had been lost for centuries, making them extremely wealthy. They were also dedicated pottery teachers at the Chouinard Art Institute, among other places. Heino donated money and work to the Ventura County Museum of History and Art, which celebrated him with exhibitions in 1995 and 2005. His pieces were also shown at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts & Design) in New York.