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A couple of famous artists who are still alive:

 

Carmen Herrera 1915

Gerhard Richter 1932

Arik Brauer 1929

Christo 1935

David Hockney 1937

 

There are also some younger artists who, I think, are exposed to considerable risks, since it became known that they were among Tony Podesta's favorite artists:

 

Marina Abramovic 1946 does just the usual satanist stuff, like spraying blood & other bodily fluids. The following painters/photographers however, have created some eye-catching artworks:

 

Patricia Piccinini 1965

Sam Taylor-Wood 1967

Anna Gaskell 1969

Margi Geerlinks 1970

Biljana Djurdjevic 1973

 

Two things may happen:

1.They may attract the attention of some weirdo obsessed by "Pizzagate".

2. The DOJ suddenly becomes adventurous & starts to investigate the Podestas & their ties to the Clintons. And we know that bad things happened to people with insider knowledge about  the Clintons...

 

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Wendell Castle, an artist known as the father of art furniture whose masterworks were exhibited in preeminent museums of the United States but were also objects to be sat or eaten upon, or to hold a raincoat and hat, died Jan. 20 at his home in Scottsville, N.Y.  He was 85.   The cause was leukemia, said his wife widow, Nancy Jurs, who is also an artist.

Over more than a half-century, Mr. Castle helped establish a creative genre, the studio crafts, that blended furniture-making and sculpture. 

He favored curves so sumptuous that they could look, at first glance, as if they were molded from clay rather than carved from wood (See 'Two-Seater Settee' below).

To achieve his signature look, he perfected a technique called stack lamination, which he had learned as a boy entranced by model airplanes. Layers of wood were glued together into a block that he then carved like a piece of stone.

His pieces are displayed in MOMA, the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.

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Frank Meisler, an Israeli sculptor most famous for the "Kindertransport – The Arrival" work outside Liverpool Street station, dead at 89.

 

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45 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Frank Meisler, an Israeli sculptor most famous for the "Kindertransport – The Arrival" work outside Liverpool Street station, dead at 89.

 

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A salutary reminder of what this country did for these people.

 

Time for them to man up and distinguish between anti-Semitism and criticism of the Israeli State.

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La Wilson, an enigmatic assemblage artist who took ordinary objects — from dice, plastic forks and alphabet blocks to bullet casings, fake guns and jewelry — and arranged them in boxes, giving them enthralling new life, died on March 30 in Hudson, Ohio, a suburb of Akron. She was 93.  The cause was most likely complications of two recent strokes.

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Couldn't find yesterday's post re: Trump Tower fire.....deleted?

A 67-year-old man has died after a fire broke out at his apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York.  Some 200 firefighters battled the blaze at the skyscraper in Manhattan on Saturday evening, with the apartment said to be "virtually entirely on fire" when they arrived.

Art dealer Todd Brassner was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later died.
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One from a few days ago illustrator Laura Roslof had died aged 69. She produced the infamus Illusion of the Decapus drawing for the orange edition of the Dungeons and Dragons module B3 The Palace of the Silver Princess which resulted in TSR executives recalling all the editions from distributos and even going round the office after the staff had gone home removing any copies which were all then sent to a massive landfill site. Jean Wells' text was rewritten by Tom Moldvey and the illustrations altered and the module republished with a green cover. The few orange editions that survived are now collector's items. 

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Illustrators? Art, I guess. Doesn't fit into the 2018 thread. Anyhow, just found out from in the know folk that Peter Edwards (1934-2017) died a year ago without fanfare, obits, or even mentions on public social media. I'm sure I posted on here in 2014 when his wife and fellow artist Gunvor died, but I can't find the post. This means all of the Railway Series artists from when the Rev Awdry was writing them are now dead.

 

So, here are some of his reminisces about working on kids books.

 

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Quite liked their work when I was a wean. Very evocative. Anyhow, RIP, belatedly.

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37 minutes ago, msc said:

 Doesn't fit into the 2018 thread.

 

You could post his death in the 2017 thread "for completeness", as we say. 

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Reports on Twitter that British born photorealist artist and DDP pick Malcolm Morley has died:

 

 

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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Reports on Twitter that British born photorealist artist and DDP pick Malcolm Morley has died:

 

 

Obituary.

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Irving Sandler, an art critic who drew on his extensive relationships with living artists to compile authoritative histories of Abstract Expressionism and the artistic movements that followed, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 92.

The cause was cancer, his wife said. He had been in hospice care.

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Art expert Anne Olivier Bell died 2 weeks ago aged 102.

 

Guardian obit

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4 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Mary Pratt, an acclaimed Canadian painter known for her depictions of everyday objects, has died.  She was 83.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/mary-pratt-acclaimed-east-coast-painter-dead-at-83-1.4053795

 

Another absolute nobody.   'Acclaimed'.  

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13 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Another absolute nobody.   'Acclaimed'.  

I wouldn’t call someone who has their own Wikipedia page (and a bit of a lengthy one on that note) a nobody...

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7 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Another absolute nobody.   'Acclaimed'.  

 

You don't have your works appearing on Canadian postage stamps if you're a "nobody".

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