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Tess Jaray obituary

Tess Jaray, an Austrian-born British abstract painter known for her geometric, architectural-inspired works, has died at age 88. The article traces her artistic journey from a transformative trip to Italy in 1960, where she was deeply moved by Renaissance architecture, to her development of abstract paintings that evoked space and movement. It highlights key moments in her career, including a mural for the British Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal and a solo show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1988, as well as her Jewish family's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria and her upbringing in rural Worcestershire.

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Tess Jaray, Influential Painter of Understated Abstractions, Dies at 88

Tess Jaray, a British painter known for her understated abstract works featuring grids, cubes, and zigzags on pale backgrounds, died on Sunday at age 88, as announced on her official Instagram account. Born in Vienna in 1937, she fled the Nazi regime with her Jewish parents and later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, where she became the first female teacher in 1968. Her career included monumental commissions in the 1980s and '90s, a survey at Vienna's Secession in 2021, and an appearance at the Centre Pompidou that same year.

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Paula Kamps, Painter of Tender Works About Memory, Dies at 36

Paula Kamps, a German painter known for her tender, softly hued works exploring memory and fleetingness, has died at age 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday but did not disclose a cause. Kamps used thin washes of watercolor and ink to create dreamlike portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in which figures and plants appear to blur or fade. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Lucy McKenzie, Tomma Abts, and Elizabeth Peyton, and later debuted solo at M. LeBlanc Gallery in Chicago in 2021. She also showed with David Zwirner’s Platform, Mou Projects in Hong Kong, and Galerie Christine Mayer in Zurich, which held a solo exhibition earlier this year.

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Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64

Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist known for exploring themes of memory, migration, and the Salvadoran diaspora through photography, video, and installation, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland, at age 64. Born in El Salvador in 1961, she left during the country's civil war in 1979 and settled in Washington, D.C. Her work, including series like "Santos y sombras / Saints and Shadows" (1990–97) and the 2023 survey "Tracing Terruño" at the International Center of Photography, poignantly combined archival family photos with new imagery to examine loss, exile, and the complexities of identity.

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Donald Newhouse, Publishing Heir and Brother of Si Newhouse, Dies at 96

Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher and heir to the Condé Nast media empire, died at 96 from lymphoma at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey. He and his brother Si Newhouse inherited a vast media conglomerate from their father; Donald focused on Advance Publications' newspaper business, running The Star-Ledger and expanding holdings to include The Plain Dealer, The Times-Picayune, and The Oregonian. His death comes days after Christie's evening sales of works from Si Newhouse's collection, which included a record-breaking sale of Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 for $181.2 million.

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Martin Lister obituary

Martin Lister, a writer, teacher, and scholar of photography and new media, has died at age 78. He was a key figure in the study of how technology intersects with cultural ways of seeing, editing the influential book *The Photographic Image in Digital Culture* (1995) and co-authoring *New Media: A Critical Introduction* (2003). Lister served as head of the school of cultural studies at the University of the West of England (UWE) and taught at institutions including Cockpit Arts Workshop and Newport College of Art and Design.

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Ben Morea, Principal Provocateur of 1960s Anarchist Group, Dies at 84

Ben Morea, an abstract painter and leading figure of the 1960s anarchist group Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, has died at age 84. Morea sought to collapse the boundary between art and political revolution, using provocative actions and profane slogans to challenge both the art world and the establishment. He was loosely at the helm of the radical collective, which blended street theater, direct action, and anti-war protest in New York City.

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Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Whose Paintings Were Saturated in Black, Dies at 84

Mary Lovelace O’Neal, an artist and activist known for her monumental canvases saturated in the darkest pigments she could find, has died at age 84. Her work, deeply informed by her identity as a Black woman and her involvement in the civil rights movement, gained prominence for its bold abstraction and political resonance.

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