Karen Lamassonne on the Grupo de Cali, Luis Ospina and Pornomiseria

Currently on view at the Swiss Institute, multidisciplinary artist Karen Lamassonne's exhibition "Ruido / Noise" is one of the season's essential gallery shows. In addition to a life-spanning survey of paintings and sculpture by the Colombian-American artist, the show details Lamassonne's work as an art director, perhaps most famously on Luis Ospina's pitch-black 1982 vampire parable Pura Sangre (Pure Blood). Lamassonne was a key figure in the storied Grupo de Cali, a posse of artists, writers a...