Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82

Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82

    Glen Baxter, the Leeds-born artist whose deadpan ink drawings made absurdism look easy and pretension look ridiculous, has died. He was one of those rare figures who managed to make serious art out of the refusal to be serious, and in doing so built a...
Pat Steir Abstract Painter Of Waterfalls Dies at 87

Pat Steir Abstract Painter Of Waterfalls Dies at 87

  The Abstract painter Pat Steir has died in Manhattan. She was 87 and was making new paintings until the end. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Joost Elffers, her niece, Lily Sukoneck-Cohen, and Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth, which had...