by Meg Onli | Sep 12, 2008 | Blog
On Sunday September 7th Japanese artist/designer Nagi Noda passes away. She was 35. There is no word on the exact cause of her death; but people have speculated that it was related to a car accident she was in last year that had left the artist with Chronic pain and...
by Christopher Hudgens | Jun 1, 2008 | Podcast
http://media.libsyn.com/media/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_144-Wainwright_on_Rauschenberg.mp3 download Robert Rauschenberg passed away on May 12, 2008 at age 82. The Art Institute of Chicago’s own Rauscheberg expert Lisa Wainwright joins us to discuss his...
by Meg Onli | May 13, 2008 | Blog
via MICHAEL KIMMELMAN for the New York Times: Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. The cause was heart failure, said...
by Richard Holland | Jan 9, 2008 | Blog
Sir Robert J. Loescher, 70, died on December 8, 2007. Mr. Loescher was Professor Emeritis at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and founder of SAIC Art History Department. He was knighted in 1990 by King Juan Carlos, of Spain. He was preceded in death by his...
by Brian Andrews | Jul 25, 2007 | Blog
In NYC, a filmmaker/games designer committed suicide last week. Her companion, a well-known contemporary abstract artist, has gone missing for 8 days and is presumed dead: . . . . The filmmaker, Theresa Duncan, 40, who has also drawn attention for her writings on...