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French artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, taking his own life just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his

French artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, taking his own life just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his

French artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, taking his own life just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his

French artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, taking his own life just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his

French artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, taking his own life just hours after the death of his wife

Self-taught French artist and provocateur Ben Vautier, a cofounder of the Fluxus movement known for his humorous text-based paintings, took his own life June 5 at his home in Saint-Pancrais, France, hours after his wife, Annie, died of a stroke.

Much has been written about artists, curators, and art historians. Oskar Bätschmann’s The Art Public: A Short History is dedicated to the spectators on the other side.

THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION, which took place at Kerri Scharlin’s “salon” in New York on November 5, 2023, is published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the series of six articles that Michelle Kuo, then chief editor of Artforum, commissioned from Thierry de Duve and published in 2013–14. They are the basis for “Don’t Shoot the Messenger,” the main section of de Duve’s new book, Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General (Reaktion Books, 2023).

The idea of ​​the documentary series Museums told by their guardian angels is a priori rich in promise: giving a voice to those who we often see sitting, taciturn, News

What to see on a visit to the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the building is its own artwork filled with extraordinary modern & contemporary art: