| "We
should seek the greatest value of our action."
~
STEPHEN HAWKING |
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RICARDO ALEGRÍA |
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Puerto
Rican scholar, cultural anthropologist and archeologist known as
the "Father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology," first
director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, responsible for
the creation of the "Archaeological Center of Investigation
of the University of Puerto Rico,". created the "Center
of Popular Arts of the Puerto Rican Cultural Institute," founded
the Museo de las Américas.
(April 14, 1921 – July 7, 2011) |
CLAUDIO BRAVO
|
Breads |
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Chilean
hyperrealist painter, lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco since
1972.
(November 8, 1936 – June 4, 2011) |
LEONORA
CARRINGTON
|
Amorchi II
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British-born
Mexican artist, surrealist painter and a novelist.
(6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) |
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN |
Dolores
James |
| American
sculptor who almost singlehandedly gave automotive metal a place
in the history of sculpture, smashing and twisting together a
poetic fusion of Abstract Expressionism and Pop from fenders,
fins, bumpers and hood
(April 16, 1927 – December 21, 2011) |
CHEETA MIKE |
With
Johnny Weissmuller and "Tarzan" family |
Chimpanzee
who played Tarzan’s sidekick Cheeta in the classic Johnny
Weissmuller films of the early 1930’s passed away Christmas
Eve at the age of 80, one year longer than the original movie Tarzan,
Johnny Weissmuller, lived.
(d, December 24 2011) |
PETER FALK |
Lt.
Colombo |
American
actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television
series Columbo.
(September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) |
HELEN FRANKENTHALER |
Mountain
and Sea |
| American
abstract expressionist painter, a major contributor to the history
of postwar American painting.
(December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) |
LUCIEN FREUD |
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British
painter known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure
paintings, widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his
time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and
for their often discomfiting examination of the relationship between
artist and model.
(8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) |
VÁCLAV
HAVEL |
The
Velvet Revolution |
| Czech
playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician; Nobel Peace
Prize nominee, the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia
(1989–1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic
(1993–2003).
(5
October 1936 – 18 December 2011) |
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“Writing
is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do
that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes
intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me.
[It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going
to those parties, without having those late nights, without that
second bottle.”
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS |
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"Hitch",
British American author and journalist whose books, essays, and
journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist
and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation,
Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow
at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of
talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's
fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll:
Noam Chomsky,Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Vaclav Havel and Christopher
Hitchens.
(13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) |
STEVE JOBS
"O
wow! O wow! O wow!" |
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American
businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer
of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman,
and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
(February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) |
JACK KEVORKIAN
"Dying
is not a crime." |
The
Thanatron
(Death Machine) |
| American
pathologist known as "Dr. Death," euthanasia
activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known
for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via
physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients
to that end.
(May
26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) |
ANDY ROONEY
"The
average Dog is a nicer person than the average person."
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American
radio and television writer most notable for his weekly broadcast
"A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the
CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular
appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011.
(January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) |
GEORGE TOOKER |
Mirror
III |
Figurative
painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social
realism movements;recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 2007.
(August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) |
CY TWOMBLY
|
The
Italians |
American
artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style
graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white
colors.
(April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) |
GEORGE WHITMAN |
Shakespeare
and Co. |
| American
proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company
bookstore in Paris; a contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack
Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; born in East Orange, New Jersey; awarded
the "Officier des Arts et Lettres" medal by the French
government in. 2006 for his contribution to the arts over the
previous fifty years.
(December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011)
"I
may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just
a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame
for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the
heart whose motto is 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they
be angels in disguise.' I may disappear leaving no forwarding
address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you
on my vagabond journey around the world.”
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