I’m always brought up short when a name which has been very familiar to me for the last two decades of the online art world suddenly comes up on Facebook for all the wrong reasons. Steve Doherty (known formally as M. Stephen Doherty) died of a heart attack on Saturday 12th […]
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Ignored by the art world until her 80s, abstract artist Carmen Herrera has died, aged 106
The Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera has died, aged 106. Herrera was known for her precise, radiant geometric works centred on “crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes”, says Lisson Gallery, who represented the artist since 2010 and confirmed her death. “She died peacefully in her sleep at her apartment and studio […]
Carmen Herrera, Whose Late-Career Triumphs as an Abstract Painter Redefined the Age of Art Stardom, Has Died at 106
Carmen Herrera, the Cuban American painter and sculptor whose lifelong fascination in vividly colored, tricky-edge summary sorts introduced her certain fame in the latter many years of her lifetime, died on Saturday in the New York condominium and studio wherever she lived for 55 a long time. She was 106. The […]
David Zwirner is Showing Abstract Paintings by Jesse Murry, Part of Series of Exhibitions Dedicated to Artists Who Died During HIV/AIDS Crisis
Installation view of “Jesse Murry” at David Zwirner, New York MARKING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing its first report about what would become known as AIDS, David Zwirner is presenting More Life, a special series dedicated to artists who died from HIV/AIDS-related […]