Burt Hasen, Artist Inspired by Maps, Dies at 85
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Mr. Hasen was a New York painter who drew inspiration from his experience working with maps as a military technician during World War II.
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Maj. Sean Stinchon stands at the base of Hill 362A and scans a map drawn up by Navy Seabees in 1948 that is deeply creased and covered in reddish brown dirt. The map shows a labyrinth of caves and tunnels that runs through the brush-covered hill like the cross-section of an ant colony.
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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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American fashion designer Geoffrey  Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store  favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home. He  was 77.
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A new exhibit inside the National Museum of Health and Medicine by artist Ted Meyer bares highly personal relief maps that show life, with its pain and trials.
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Black and white portraiture dominates âIsland to Island: Inspired Portraits,â the Hillwood Art Museumâs major fall show.
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Bruce S. Kershner, who died Friday in the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Cheektowaga, from esophageal cancer, lived just long enough to realize his lifelong dream of state protection for the soaring old-growth trees of the Zoar Valley. He was 56.  Mr.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 2--Lou Ann Brunetto was a music teacher when she took a job with the Farm Service Agency in Western Colorado, signing on as an aerial photographer for a mapping project.
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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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Chicago artist Ed Paschke, who earned international acclaim for his startling, vibrantly colored canvases of images and icons from popular culture, has died at the age of 65.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Anyone who's ever tried to fold a well-used map can probably relate to the challenge Discovery astronauts face in the next phase of their mission.
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Born in Chinaâs Sichuan province, the highly innovative illustrator and graphic designer Qian Qian uses Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other Mac software to create art that merges Eastern and Western influences from different erasâfrom classical Chinese painting and 1930s Shanghai advertising to Cultural Revolution aesthetics, pop art, and the Japanese manga-inspired Superflat movement. âOther people might have training from an early age with pens and brushes,â Qian says, âbut the Mac is my main tool.â
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Jessica Yu's excellent documentary explores the life and work of Henry Darger, one of the world's best-known outside artists.
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Shiing-shen Chern, a Chinese-American mathematician famous for his breakthroughs in differential geometry, died Friday in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin. He was 93.
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MADRID, SPAIN.- Spanish painter Juan Barjola, 85, died, reported the Juan Manchon Gallery.