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David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78

The Art Newspaper

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades

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Alex Janvier, visionary First Nations artist based in Canada, has died, aged 89

The Art Newspaper

A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85

The Art Newspaper

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

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Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93

The Art Newspaper

The German-born British painter, a leading figure in the School of London, produced some of the most enduring and perceptive observations of what it meant to be alive during his time

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Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36

The Art Newspaper

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

Age 344
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Audrey Flack, a pioneer of Photorealism, has died, aged 93

The Art Newspaper

A survey of the artist's work from the last four years of her life, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum this autumn

Age 338
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Remembering Jean-Claude Saintilus, Haitian artist and member of the Atis Rezistans collective, who has died, aged 64

The Art Newspaper

Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, Documenta Fifteen (2022) and the Ghetto Biennale, in Port au Prince