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Artist Thornton Dial, an American Genius, Dies at 87
It has been said that when gods fall, the earth shakes.
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Renowned Artist Leila Alaoui, Injured in Burkina Faso Terrorist Attacks, Dies at 33
Leila Alaoui, the French-Moroccan photographer and video artist known for her poetic and unsentimental images of daily life in the Mediterranean and Middle East, died last night from injuries sustained during last week's terrorist attack in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Ellsworth Kelly, Who Relentlessly Pushed the Boundaries of Abstraction, Dead at 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most strident pioneers of abstraction and minimalism in the United States from the 1950s onward, has died at age 92.
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Remembering Brian Sewell: The Master of the Operatic Put-Down Who Masturbated for Dalí
There's little doubt that Brian Sewell (1931–2015) — who passed away on Saturday — was Britain's best-known art critic.
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Other Plastic Marvels by the Creator of the Pink Flamingo
He's most recognized for helping to dot the yards of US suburbs with shocking pink plastic flamingos — the exemplar of kitsch that rose from its resin roots to become the "ambassador of the American lawn" and even a "signpost for the transgression of social and cultural convention."
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Remembering Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015)
The American artist Miriam Schapiro died on Saturday. Her death brings up enormous issues about feminism, legacy, and about the role an artist plays in how she enters a history she helped to create.
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Chris Burden, Pioneering Performance Artist and Large-Scale Sculptor, Dead at 69
Chris Burden, an artist famous both for his pioneering performance work in the 1970s and the intricate large-scale sculptures he made in the ensuing decades, died early Sunday morning at his home in Topanga Canyon, California.
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The Many Lives of Leonard Nimoy: Artist, Collector, Vulcan
Leonard Nimoy, the actor whose name and face were synonymous with Star Trek's Spock, died this morning at the age of 83.
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Metropolitan Museum Curator Walter Liedtke Killed in Train Crash
Walter Liedtke, a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was one of six people killed in the Metro-North train crash last night in Valhalla, New York.
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Miami Artist Run Over by Cop Dies of His Injuries
Graffiti artist Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez died on Tuesday night from injuries sustained when Miami Police Department Detective Michael Cadavid hit him with an unmarked police car.
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Remembering French Photographer Lucien Clergue, a Giant of the Field
PARIS — As the Paris Photo fair drew to a close, the French art scene was distressed by the news that pioneering art photographer Lucien Clergue died on Saturday at the age of 80.
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Susan Sollins, Pioneering Curator and Art Documentarian, Dies
Susan Sollins, the co-founder of Independent Curators International (ICI) and founder and executive director of ART21 — the non-profit organization that produces the artist documentary series art21 — died on October 13 of unknown causes.