Zilia Sánchez, Cuban artist renowned for shaped, abstract canvases, has died, aged 98
The Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, celebrated for her abstract paintings and sculptures that evoke the feminine form, has died, aged ...
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Lorraine O’Grady, conceptual artist who dissected language and dualities, has died, aged 90
Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity structured around facile boundaries and binaries, died on ...
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Ronald Feldman, art dealer who ‘championed big ideas’, has died, aged 84
Ronald Feldman, the pioneering gallerist behind the eponymous Ronald Feldman Gallery—formerly Ronald Feldman Fine Arts—has died, aged 84. Feldman died ...
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Pope Benedict XVI, for eight years proprietor in trust of the Vatican’s library and art collection, has died aged 95
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the Catholic church, head of the Vatican City state, and proprietor in trust of its ...
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Football legend Pelé, a muse for Warhol and street art icon, has died aged 82
Pelé, the Brazilian football legend who transcended sport and turned the "Beautiful Game" into an art form, has died, aged ...
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The artist Dorothy Iannone, hailed as a ‘freedom fighter’, dies aged 89
The artist Dorothy Iannone, who unabashedly celebrated the female sexual experience and fought censorship, has died aged 89; her death ...
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Maya Picasso, daughter of artist Pablo and important archivist of her father’s legacy, has died, aged 87
Maya Widmaier-Picasso, the eldest daughter of Pablo Picasso, died of pulmonary complications on 20 December in Paris, aged 87. The ...
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Philip Pearlstein, whose nude portraits helped revive figurative painting, has died, aged 98
Philip Pearlstein, the artist whose realistic, nude portraits breathed new life into figurative painting amidst the rise of non-representational abstraction, ...
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Evelyn de Rothschild—banker, collector, art patron and philanthropist—has died, aged 91
The British financier Evelyn de Rothschild, who oversaw the expansion and reorganisation of his family's historic banking business, has died, ...
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Dagny Corcoran, an influential art book dealer in Los Angeles, has died, aged 77
Dagny Corcoran, the influential arts book dealer and a longtime fixture of the Los Angeles art scene, has died at ...
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