Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87 – The Art Newspaper
The American arts philanthropist Agnes Gund has died, aged 87. Gund was a leading figure in the art world who ...
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Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98 – The Art Newspaper
The renowned Pop Art painter and polymath Rosalyn Drexler—once a member of an all-women travelling wrestling troupe—has died aged 98, ...
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Giorgio Armani, designer who changed how museums engage with fashion, has died aged 91 – The Art Newspaper
Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer whose work extended into contemporary art and museum culture, has died aged 91.Born in ...
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‘An incredible instinct for contemporary art’: Doris Lockhart, the overlooked figure behind the Saatchi collection, has died aged 88 – The Art Newspaper
Doris Lockhart, the US-born art collector credited with changing the UK contemporary art scene in the 1970s and 1980s with ...
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Christophe de Menil, art patron and heiress to the Menil Collection’s founders, has died, aged 92 – The Art Newspaper
Christophe de Menil, the Parisian-born fashion designer and renowned art collector, died at age 92 last week at home in ...
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Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83 – The Art Newspaper
Robert Wilson, a visionary artist best known for his highly visual and stylised approach to theatrical performances, has died, aged ...
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World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the Catholic church and custodian of the Vatican’s treasures, who has died, aged 88 – The Art Newspaper
World leaders today paid tribute to Pope Francis after the spiritual leader of the Catholic church, and its 1.3 billion ...
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Pope Francis, for 12 years head of the Catholic church and proprietor in trust of the Vatican’s library and art collections, has died aged 88 – The Art Newspaper
Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, head of state of the Vatican and proprietor in trust ...
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85 – The Art Newspaper
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an artist and activist who was a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, died on ...
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Jo Baer, painter who pivoted from abstraction to ‘radical figuration’, has died, aged 95 – The Art Newspaper
The American painter Jo Baer, best known for her monumental contributions to the fields of Minimalist abstraction and later figuration, ...
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