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Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Role at Artforum

Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Role at Artforum

On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February. She will be replaced by the publication’s executive editor, Rachel Wetzler, and editor Daniel Wenger, who will now serve as co-editors. (The editor-in-chief title will no longer be used.) Ryan, a curator, critic, and specialist in digital art, joined the publication in 2024, after serving as a curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum for seven years. She also spent time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a curatorial research assistant in the modern and contemporary art department. Related Articles Wetzler previously served as a senior editor at Art in America, before joining Artforum with the same title in January 2024. She was promoted to executive editor last year. Wenger, meanwhile, has spent time at the New Yorker, Medium, and Harper’s. “It’s been an immense honor to work alongside my colleagues at Artforum over the last two years,” Ryan said in a statement. “While I’ve contributed to the magazine for many years, having the opportunity …

Artforum Founding Editor Dies at 96

Artforum Founding Editor Dies at 96

Philip Leider, the founding editor of Artforum, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on January 11 at 96. Artforum announced his death over the weekend, but did not state a cause. Leider’s career arc was an unusual one. He helped turn Artforum into a go-to source for serious, no-nonsense art criticism, serving as its editor starting in 1962. (Since 2022, Artforum has been owned by Penske Media Corporation, ARTnews’s parent company.) “It’s no exaggeration to say that Artforum in the 1960s was Phil Leider,” wrote art historian Michael Fried, a good friend of Leider, in a 1993 reflection. Related Articles Then, in 1971, Leider left the publication—and the eye of the mainstream art world in the US. When Amy Newman, a former ARTnews editor and the author of a book on Artforum’s early years, interviewed Leider for the New York Times in 2000, she wrote of Leider’s “almost 30-year disengagement from an art world that grew up” during the ’70s. By that point, Leider had departed the US altogether and begun teaching in Israel. Born in 1929 in …