Boris Lurie, Leader of a Confrontational Art Movement, Dies at 83
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Boris Lurie was a Russian-born artist who survived the Holocaust and then depicted its horrors while leading a confrontational movement called No! Art.
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Sidney Lumet, the acclaimed American film-maker who directed 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, is finally getting an Oscar. In almost 50 years the 80-year-old director
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Controversy surrounding a current art exhibition (earlier reports here) being held in Berlin has deepened after an unusual stunt pulled on Wednesday by a German gymnast, said to be protesting over the dark legacy which is attached to the artworks on
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Former premier Louis J. Robichaud, once described as the architect of modern New Brunswick, has died after a brief battle with cancer.
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend   of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the   age of 95 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI   said on Saturday.
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Ray Harryhausen, the renowned stop-motion animator who turned 87 in June, adds a bit of color to some of his work.
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Fashion Wire Daily - The painter Romaine Brooks was unlike her Symbolist and Aesthetic movement contempories of the early Twentieth century - think Gustav Klimt or Georges de Feure, with their emphasis on rich, decadent multicolored palette and graphic patterns.
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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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Artist Charles Biederman, known for his  geometric paintings and aluminum reliefs depicting his fiercely  held beliefs that art springs from nature, has died, a museum  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Arts & entertainment: The often controversial head of exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London, is to step down after 31 years
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Hilda Bernstein, an anti-apartheid activist and author whose husband was tried for treason alongside Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 91.
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Supporters say it&#39;s one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the world. Opponents call it the moral whitewashing of blood money.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences across the globe without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed  success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international  cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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The Soviet invasion of the late 1970s that drove Afghans into a long and bloody resistance has been recorded in this nation's favourite and most famous art form -- carpets.
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Veteran Hong Kong entertainer Lydia Shum died Tuesday aged 60 after a battle with liver cancer, her employer and local media said.