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Robert Frank, the influential Swiss-American photographer died yesterday at the age of 94. He was best known for his groundbreaking book, The Americans, which documented the people he met on his cross-country road trips in the mid-1950s. In black and white, … Continue reading
Robert Therrien, Untitled (Folding Chairs and Table), 2008, Paint and metal, Table: 96” x 120” x 120”, Chairs: 104” x 64” x 72”, Image via Artsy.com.
The American artist Robert Therrien died earlier this week. He was 71 years old. Therrien is best known for his amusing sculptures of functional, mass-produced objects from everyday life that are enlarged to a scale that fills a room. Surely, … Continue reading
David Douglas Duncan, Cover photograph for This is War!, 1951
Earlier this month, David Douglas Duncan, one of the most influential photographers of the 20thcentury, passed away at the age of 102. His career as a photojournalist began auspiciously when he was a college student and he photographed a hotel … Continue reading
Marisol, Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, 1982-4, Wood, plywood, stone, plaster, aluminum, dye, charcoal, 121 ½” x 358” x 61”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Photo via the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
One of the most unique modern artists, Maria Sol Escobar, otherwise simply known as Marisol, died on April 30, 2016 at the age of 85. The French-born, Venezuelan artist first caused a sensation in the New York art world in … Continue reading
Zaha Hadid, MAXXI, 2009, Rome.
Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid died last week at the age of 65. A recipient of the Prizker Architecture Prize, Dame Hadid enjoyed a series of prestigious commissions as well as a career teaching at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities. … Continue reading
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The world lost an extraordinary artist this week when David Bowie passed away at the age of 69. The media has published many reverential articles about Bowie and thousands of fans have gone on social media to express their heartbreak and … Continue reading
Maya Angelou reciting her poem,
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou To watch Maya Angelou read her iconic poem, “Still I Rise,” click here.
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The Art Minute offers condolences to the family and friends of one of our favorite performing artists, James Gandolfini, who died this week at the young age of 51. Do you remember the episode of The Sopranos that featured this … Continue reading
Helen Frankethaler, Jacob’s Ladder, 1957, oil on canvas, 9’ 5⅜” x 69⅞”, Museum of Modern Art, NY, JamesKidsArts-Flickr
The American-born, Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler died on Tuesday. Today, she is a prominent figure within the Abstract Expressionist movement, but early in her career she was known as Mrs. Robert Motherwell. As a woman, it was not easy … Continue reading
Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956, collage on paper, 10¼” x 9¾”, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Sammlung Zundel, Germany. Photo by Ian Burt under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The British Pop artist Richard Hamilton passed away earlier this week. Some people think that Pop Art strictly was an American art movement, but it actually started in England with Richard Hamilton and his artist friends. At the end of … Continue reading