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Home > RIP Monday, 03 May 2010 Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
Margalit Fox reports in the 30 April issue of The New York Times the death of Avigdor Arikha, an Israeli painter "whose work captured both the haunting beauty and the looming menace of everyday things, a vision informed in no small part by his experience as a Holocaust survivor." Arikha was a close friend of Samuel Beckett's, the dramatist who served as the subject of several sketches by the artist, as well as How It Was, a fine small memoir by Arikha's widow Anne Atik. A small selection of Arikha's work appears along with the obituary here. Posted in /RIP Home > RIP Thursday, 04 March 2010 Barbara Bray (1924-2010)
Bray was a unique behind-
An extraordinary woman by any measure, Bray's final years were marked by the same fierce independence as the rest of her life: "A stroke in 2003 limited her activity, and left her using a wheelchair. She remained doggedly independent in a studio flat in the Rue Seguier, proudly reciting swathes of Shakespeare, Donne and the King James Bible from memory. After a steady decline in her health, she moved last December to Edinburgh to a nursing home near her daughter Francesca's house. Resolutely rational and atheist to the last, Bray eschewed a funeral and donated her body to science." The full obituary, well worth reading, is here. Posted in /RIP Home > RIP Monday, 27 July 2009 Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) Photo: Annie Leibovitz Alistair MacAulay in the New York Times reports the death last night of Merce Cunningham at the age of 90. "In his final years he became almost routinely hailed as the world's greatest choreographer," MacAulay writes. "For many, he had simply been the greatest living artist since Samuel Beckett." Posted in /RIP
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