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Llyn Foulkes, Quintessential LA Artist, Dies at 91
Guided by an uncompromising vision and a shrewd critical eye, the artist satirized American culture through paintings, assemblage pieces, and music that hummed with tactile vitality.
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Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
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Remembering Erik Bulatov, Kazuki Motoyama, and Ken Parker
This week, we honor a pillar of Soviet pop, the man behind Mario, a founder of an art commune, and more.
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Remembering Jackie Ferrara, Alison Knowles, and John Adams Griefen
This week, we honor a sculptor who lived and died on her own terms, a Fluxus pioneer, a color field painter, and more.
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Alison Knowles, the First Woman of Fluxus, Dies at 92
“People don’t touch art,” she once said. “That’s one of the problems.”
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Jackie Ferrara Lived and Died on Her Own Terms
The sculptor of graceful structures and architectural environments, who died voluntarily last week at age 95, sought to contain life’s chaos in geometric forms.
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Remembering Carla Stellweg, Frank Wimberley, and Ed Kerns
This week, we honor a visionary of Latin American art, an experimental abstractionist, an educator with a scientific streak, and others.
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Frank Wimberley, Artist of Controlled Accidents, Dies at 99
His life was marked by a devotion to experimentation and an excitement for creative possibility.
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Curator Carla Stellweg, Visionary of Latin American Art, Dies at 83
Through endeavors like the pivotal journal Arts Visuales, Stellweg forged a wider path for Mexican, Latine, and Caribbean artists on a global stage.
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Remembering Tony Fitzpatrick, Gilles Larrain, and Gabriel Ramírez Aznar
This week, we honor a Chicago stalwart, a photographer of drag culture, a Yucatán painter, and others.
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Agnes Gund, Champion of Arts and Equity, Dies at 87
From her efforts to end mass incarceration to her deep belief in education, the collector and philanthropist advocated for a more compassionate world.
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Robert Grosvenor, Who Refused to Be Defined by Genre, Dies at 88
The artist's six-decade oeuvre encompassed large-scale abstract sculptures that both impressed and perplexed his audiences.