Philip Conisbee, 62, National Gallery Curator, Is Dead
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Mr. Conisbee organized some of the museumâs most popular exhibitions, such as âCÃ©zanne in Provence.â
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US artist Ed Paschke, who earned global recognition for his paintings of icons from popular culture, dies.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Gerald Boyd, a prominent American black journalist and former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign after a young reporter under his leadership was involved in a plagiarism scandal, has died. He was 56.
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Jesus de Polanco, a media giant credited with helping restore Spain's independent press after the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in the 1970s, died Saturday at the age of 77, his flagship newspaper El Pais announced.
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US artist Will Eisner, who revolutionised comic books with gritty newspaper strip The Spirit, dies aged 87.
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Heinz Berggruen, an influential collector of Picasso's artworks and longtime friend of the artist, has died in France, the Picasso Museum in Paris said Sunday. He was 93.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Actor Pat Corley, who served sage advice along with drinks as Phil the barkeep on "Murphy Brown," has died. He was 76.
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WASHINGTON - A cartoonish painting of President Bush in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called "Man of Leisure, King George," adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's "Olympia," that scandalized Paris in 1863, and now hangs in the Gare d'Orsay Museum in Paris...
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A cartoonish painting of President Bush in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called "Man of Leisure, King George," adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's "Olympia," that scandalized Paris in 1863, and now hangs in the Gare d'Orsay Museum in Paris.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences around the world without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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David Bright, a leading researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, has died after diving to the site of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket, where he was working in preparation for the wreck&#039;s 50th anniversary. He was 49.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading  U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear  deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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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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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the most powerful thinkers of her generation and a  leading voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policy after  the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at a New York cancer  hospital. She was 71.
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William M. Griswold, the director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, was a curator at the Morgan for six years.