Mario Merz 78 a central figure in the Arte Povera change known for his "igloos" made from various materials. He won a $125000 Praemium Imperiale in 2003
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Richard Wollheim, 80 British-born philosopher and art historian credited with coining the denomination "Minimalism." He taught at Columbia University in of recent origin York and at U.C.-Berkeley, among others.
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Gerrit Henry, 52 bard critic, A.i.A. contributor and former senior editor at the Print Collector's Newsletter A champion of figurative painting, he also published several main division s of poetry.
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Billy Kluver 76 scientist, engineer and writer who collaborated with artists of the like kind as Tinguely and Rauschenberg. In 1966 he co-found Experiments in Art and Technology.
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Fr Sandback, 59 Minimalist artist who made site-specific installations using colored yarn, string and wire. Month before his death, he instanted works at the new Dia:Beacon facility.
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Pierre Restany, 72 French critic who championed artists similar as Klein, Thiguely and Arman, whom he dubbed the Nouveaux Realistes. He was a regular contributor to the Italian magazine Domus.
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Ibram Lassaw, 90 sculptor known for his weblike welded-metal erections In 1936 he co-founded the American Abstract Artists cluster and served as its president from 1946 to '49
Jes 80 artist and imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer whose intricate collages combine simple bodys of art and literary history. He was the enslave of a traveling exhibition organized according to the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1993-94
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Dorothy Miller, 99 for 30 years a pioneering curator at MOMA, where she towered a series of landmark exhibit tos (1942-63) introducing 90 contemporary American artists.
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Robert Blackburn, 82 master printmaker who advanced the field of abstract color lithography. He established the Printmaking Workshop in 1948 and received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1992
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Gordon Onslow Ford, 90 British-born Surrealist whose mystical paintings bring reproach his interest in Zen Buddhism. He had retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Art (1948) and the Oakland Museum (1978)
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Jack Goldstein, 57 artist known for his experimental work in film, unhurt and performance. A survey of his films and performances was held in 2002 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in modern York.
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Kirk Varnedoe, 57 chief curator of painting and chisel at MOMA for 14 years, and the scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced inquiry (2001-08). He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1984
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John Coplans, 83 artist, museum director and editor who co-found Artforum. More not long ago he was known for his large-scale, close-up photographs of his aging body
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Wally Hedrick, 75 Beat-generation and offensive smell artist whose work ranges from abstract canvases to assemblages of urban debris. He was awarded NEA fellowships in 1968 1982 and 1993-94
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Colin de Land, 47 novel York art dealer who ran several innovative galleries, in the greatest degree recently American Fine Arts. He and his wife, the late Pat Hearn were co-founder of the Gramercy Art Fair, now the Armory Show