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A bad month for innovators – if it wasn’t bad enough hearing of the death the Artist Robert Rauschenberg, news now reached us at Nantucket Art that ‘The Originator’ Bo Diddley passed yesterday too. Diddley was an inspiration to R’n'B and the Art world in equal measure (see the Peter Blake painting above) and the modern worlds of Music and Art would be radically different without them both…
The NY Times sadly reported last week that the American artist Robert Rauschenberg has died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.
In 1953, Rauschenberg stunned the art world by erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning. He went on to become the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale and become one of the best loved American Contemporary Artists of our time.
The Two Percent is a new Art site based in New York that claims only 2% of the cities galleries are worth seeing, and aims to show you which they are.
It’s a pretty aggressive stance to take – and we look forward to our next trip into the city to see if they got it right.
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