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candle obituary schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 28 link 14 artists, 1 gallery

Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026), A Black Radical Imagination

The article is a personal tribute by curator Erin Christovale to the late artist Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026), chronicling their decade-long friendship and collaboration. Christovale recounts how she first encountered Jenkins's video work at the William Grant Still Arts Center in Los Angeles, and how a conversation with Otolith Group's Kodwo Eshun led to her curating Jenkins's work. She describes key moments including Jenkins's video "Planet X" (2006) about Hurricane Katrina, his 1979 work "Two-Zone Transfer" featuring Kerry James Marshall in blackface masks, and the 2021 retrospective "Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation" co-curated with Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, which later traveled to the Hammer Museum and Julia Stoschek Foundation.

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candle obituary schedule Aug 15, 2025 visibility 23 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

‘An incredible instinct for contemporary art’: Doris Lockhart, the overlooked figure behind the Saatchi collection, has died aged 88

Doris Lockhart, the US-born art collector who played a pivotal role in shaping the Saatchi collection and championing contemporary art in the UK, has died at age 88. Alongside her then-husband Charles Saatchi, she helped introduce postwar American artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg to British audiences, and was instrumental in recognizing the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s, including Damien Hirst and Gary Hume. After their divorce in 1990, Lockhart continued collecting independently, backing emerging talents and expanding her interests to architectural models and drawings.

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candle obituary schedule Dec 31, 2025 visibility 8 link 6 artists

beast jesus artist cecilia gimenez obituary

Cecilia Giménez Zueco, the amateur painter behind the infamous "Beast Jesus" fresco restoration, has died at age 94. In 2012, at 81, Giménez attempted to restore Elías García Martínez's 1930 fresco *Ecce Homo* at the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja, Spain. Her unskilled repainting transformed Christ's face into a distorted, ape-like image that went viral under nicknames like "Potato Jesus" and "Monkey Christ," spawning thousands of memes across Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter before mainstream media coverage. Initially devastated by the global ridicule, Giménez later found her work celebrated as a cultural phenomenon and tourist attraction.

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candle obituary schedule Apr 25, 2026 visibility 22 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Morto l’artista Tullio Brunone. Il ricordo

Italian artist Tullio Brunone died on April 21. Born in 1946 in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Italian family, he trained at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. A pioneer of video art and new media, Brunone was a key figure in the Laboratorio di Comunicazione Militante (1976-1978) and later co-founded the Scuola di Nuove Tecnologie at Brera in the 1990s. His work explored interaction, temporality, and the selfie phenomenon, anticipating contemporary digital culture. He was represented by Galleria Clivio in Milan, which dedicated part of its stand to him at the most recent miart fair.

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candle obituary schedule Sep 19, 2025 visibility 26 link 2 artists

Art21 Remembers Agnes Gund

Agnes Gund, the influential arts patron and philanthropist, has passed away. The organization Art21, a leading producer of media about contemporary artists, released a statement mourning her loss and highlighting her role as one of its earliest and most steadfast supporters, having helped shape its mission from the beginning.

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