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Ben and Annie Vautier’s children say in statement their father killed himself just after their mother died of a stroke on Wednesday
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Ben Vautier Dies at 88
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.
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Art Bites: Does MoMA Have a Can of Poop in Its Collection?
In 1961, while living in Milan Piero Manzoni produced ninety cans of "Artist's Shit" to critique the art world.
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Out now: 'John M Armleder: It Never Ends'
Between an artist’s book and a catalogue, this publication follows up on John M Armleder’s multidimensional exhibition at KANAL in 2020–
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Thierry de Duve in conversation with Barry Schwabsky about Duchamp's Telegram – Artforum
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).
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