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Robert Farris Thompson, the celebrated Yale art historian whose scholarship highlighted the diverse cultural complexity of the African diaspora— largely through his bestselling 1983 book 'Flash of the Spirit'—died November 30 in New Haven, Ct. He was 88.
TRIBUTE By John Santos We’ve lost a Rosetta Stone. Prolific Professor Robert Farris Thompson passed in his sleep Monday morning due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease and having been weakened by a bout with COVID-19 at the beginning of the year. He would’ve completed his 89th year on December 30. Born on Dec. 30, 1932, […]| TRIBUTE By John Santos We’ve lost a Rosetta Stone. Prolific Professor Robert Farris Thompson passed in his sleep Monday morning due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease and having been weakened by a bout with COVID-19 at the beginning of the year. He...