Artist Obituary
Pop Art’s only female icon: Radical artist and Sixties It girl Pauline Boty was set for the big time and appeared alongside Michael Caine in Alfie but died from cancer aged just 28 in 1966 – as her legacy is celebrated in new exhibition
She was an actress, a dancer and, most impactfully, a painter who became the only female icon of the Pop Art movement.
But, due to her death from cancer at the age of just 28 in 1966, Pauline Boty never achieved the fame of contemporaries such as David Hockney and Peter Blake.
Now, a new exhibition is bringing the radical artist’s life and works to public attention once again.
Read More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943441/Pop-Art-Pauline-Boty-cancer-exhibition.html
Alastair MacKinven, the mesmeric British painter and performer, has died aged 53 after a long illness.
Born in Clatterbridge, UK, in 1971, MacKinven studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Canada, and Goldsmiths in London. He first attracted attention as an enigmatic performer, before becoming more widely known as a painter.
Read More: https://www.frieze.com/article/painter-performer-alastair-mackinven-dies-53
James Lee Williams, better known as drag queen The Vivienne, has died aged 32.
Publicist Simon Jones said the performer, who died over the weekend, was “an incredibly loved, warm-hearted and amazing person”.
The Vivienne starred in musical theatre and TV productions, and won the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019.
Read More: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw1v51yezo.amp
Pal Enger, a talented Norwegian football player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting from the National Gallery in Oslo, has died.
Tina Wulf, press officer at Valerenga Fotball, an acclaimed Oslo soccer club for which Enger played as a teenager, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the 57-year-old had died on Saturday evening.
