Grenville Davey Turner Prize Winning Sculptor Dies

Grenville Davey Turner Prize Winning Sculptor Dies

Grenville Davey, the Turner Prize-winning sculptor, has died at age 60. He was born in Launceston, Cornwall, in 1961 and studied at Exeter College of Art and Design until 1982,  graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1985. He won the Turner Prize in 1992 for the...
Dan Graham Groundbreaking Conceptual Artist Dies Age 79

Dan Graham Groundbreaking Conceptual Artist Dies Age 79

The artist, Dan Graham, has died over the weekend in New York. Graham’s influence over the past half-century as a writer, photographer, architect, sculptor, filmmaker and performance artist is a great loss to the contemporary art world. Since the 1960s his...
Wayne Thiebaud American Proto-Pop Painter Dies Age 101

Wayne Thiebaud American Proto-Pop Painter Dies Age 101

Tributes have been pouring in for the American artist Wayne Thiebaud who died yesterday in Sacramento, California age 101. His daughter Twinka Thiebaud made the following statement on Facebook, “Master painter, art professor, tennis player, joke teller...
Lawrence Weiner Conceptual Art Movement Godfather Dies

Lawrence Weiner Conceptual Art Movement Godfather Dies

Lawrence Weiner, one of the leading godfathers of the Conceptual art movement, has died, age 79. Born February 10, 1942, he was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often took the form of typographic texts, a form of...