"Lucia Di Luciano (1933-2026)Pioneering Italian painter An eminent figure in the Arte Programmata movement of the 1960s, she brought the analytic precision of mathematics to the expressive medium of painting, as exemplified by her series of optically dazzling black and white grid works. She described her work as a "continuous transformation" and painted into her 90s."
"Rosa von Praunheim (1942-2025)Avant-garde filmmaker A leading figure of the New German Cinema movement, he made boundary-pushing films about gay life in the nation. He is arguably best known for his 1971 full-length feature It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives, which sparked what many called Germany's "Stonewall moment.""
"Kathleen Goncharov (1952-2025)Art curator She was most recently senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, where she organized dozens of memorable exhibitions. Highlights of her 40-year career included serving as a United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale and as curator of the New School Art Collection."
Lucia Di Luciano (1933–2026) was a pioneering Italian painter in the Arte Programmata movement who integrated mathematical precision into optically active black-and-white grid paintings and described her practice as a "continuous transformation"; she painted into her 90s. Rosa von Praunheim (1942–2025) was an avant-garde New German Cinema filmmaker whose boundary-pushing films about gay life included the 1971 feature It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives, credited with provoking what many called Germany's "Stonewall moment." Kathleen Goncharov (1952–2025) was a senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art who organized dozens of exhibitions, served as United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, and curated the New School Art Collection. Other notable passings include a major art collector who donated extensively to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a Mexican archaeologist who advanced understanding of Maya life on the Yucatán Peninsula.
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