ARTnews in Brief: Curator Joseph J. Rishel Has Died at 80—and More from November 9, 2020

Monday, November 9
Curator Joseph J. Rishel Has Died at 80Joseph J. Rishel, a longtime curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has died at age 80. Rishel joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s curatorial staff in 1971 after starting his career at the Art Institute of Chicago. He served as senior curator of European painting before 1900 at the Pennsylvania institution, and his wife, Anne d’Harnoncourt, served as director of the museum beginning in 1982. Rishel, whose curatori