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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.
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Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist and Polymath, Dies at 98
The painter, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and one-time wrestler probed gender and power in popular culture.
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Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90
The Bay Area artist integrated chalk notation and assemblage on his idiosyncratic blackboard surfaces, plumbing the depths of lived experience and racial identity.
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Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting
Wesley LePatner, who was elected to The Met’s board this year, was fatally shot by a gunman in Blackstone’s Park Avenue headquarters.
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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95
Her unflinching gaze, which garnered both criticism and praise, confronted some of the most momentous and often painful chapters in global human history.