May 16 | Artist Lutz Bacher passes away

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Lutz Bacher (1943-2019), My Secret Life — MoMA PS1
Some goodbyes are harder than others.

 

Artist Lutz Bacher passes away

 

The American conceptual artist, whose work notably features in the collections of the MoMA, the Met and the Whitney, died of a heart attack on May 14, as announced by her galleries Greene Naftali (New York) and Galerie Buccholz (Berlin, Cologne, New York). She was born in 1943.

 

Lutz Bacher, always operating under her male pseudonym, worked with photography, sculpture, video, sound pieces and installations, bringing together text and image to tackle themes of sexuality, power and violence. Read further via ArtForum.

 

 

 

 

The Met also says farewell to Sackler

 

Following suit after the Tate in London and New York’s Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum has announced it has turned down the Sackler family, owners of the Purdue Pharma business. The group has been accused of having deliberately fostered the opioid crisis, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. More information available via The Guardian.

 

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