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Giancarlo Politi, ‘Flash Art’ founder, dies at 89
Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press. Founded in 1967 in Rome, Flash Art was among the first regularly published read more
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Ulysses Jenkins, Video Art Trailblazer with an Eye on Mass Media, Has Died at 79
Ulysses Jenkins, a muralist, performer, and trailblazer of video art, has died at 79. His death was confirmed by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, his hometown and first collaborator in a lifelong examination of the connective and destructive potential of mass media. The museum mounted a retrospective of Jenkins’s work in 2022, titled “Without read more
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Isaiah Zagar, The Artist Behind Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Has Died at 86
Isaiah Zagar, an artist who created one of Philadelphia’s great public art attractions, died on February 19 due to complications from heart failure and Parkinson’s Disease, which he had been diagnosed with in 2023. His death was confirmed by Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (PMG), the nonprofit organization that tends to the eponymous artwork. His creations “defined read more
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L, Artist Whose Mysterious Sculptures Cast Spells on Viewers, Has Died
L, an artist whose sculptures and paintings imbued galleries and museums across the US with spiritual potential, has died. ARTnews was unable to confirm a cause of death for L, whose passing was announced this week by various galleries that had shown the artist’s work. The Los Angeles–based artist would have been either 41 or read more
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Seyni Awa Camara, Sculptor Beloved by Artists Ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Pharrell, Has Died
Seyni Awa Camara, a sculptor whose clay creations made in a remote Senegalese town captured the European art world’s attention in the late ’80s and gained a vast following in the decades afterward, has died. DakArt News reported Camara’s death on social media on Sunday. Because Camara’s birth year has not definitively been reported, ARTnews read more
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Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, has died at 70
Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by Le Monde on November 17. An iconoclastic and at times controversial figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art read more
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