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  1. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  2. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  3. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  4. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  5. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  6. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
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  7. Andy Williams, Every Time I Die Guitarist and Pro Wrestler, Dead at 48

    Andy Williams, a professional wrestler who was formerly the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Music #AU #Australia #Entertainment #EveryTimeIDie #obit #obituary #RSX
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  8. Gloria Steinem used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change — neither a cook nor an enthusiastic eater
    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/
    Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change.
    #food #feminism #obituary

  9. Gloria Steinem used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change — neither a cook nor an enthusiastic eater
    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/
    Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change.
    #food #feminism #obituary

  10. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

    nytimes.com/2026/09/04/dining/

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  11. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

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  12. Neither a home cook nor an enthusiastic eater, she used the dinner table as a place to forge relationships and foster change. #food #feminism #obituary

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  13. RIP Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

    “As a medical educator, therapist, and teacher, she enabled many thousands of physicians to find individual meaning and purpose in the practice of medicine and thousands of patients to remember their power to heal.”

    I read her books early in my career, and in them saw how physicians can be storytellers, and how the art of storytelling makes us better physicians. I never had the opportunity to meet her, but some of my mentors did and told me how she changed (and saved) their lives

    She truly influenced our profession for the better. She was saving lives from #burnout before it was a buzzword

    #medmastodon #physicians #storyteller #obituary

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  14. William Smithers Dead: ‘Dallas’, ‘Papillon’ Actor Was 98

    William Smithers, an actor best known for a recurring role on the hit ’80s TV series Dallas, had…
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  15. William Smithers Dead: ‘Dallas’, ‘Papillon’ Actor Was 98

    William Smithers, an actor best known for a recurring role on the hit ’80s TV series Dallas as…
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  16. Un des plus grands n’est plus

    David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

    English version : click here

    Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
    Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

    «La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)

    On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

    https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

    J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

    Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

    Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

    Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

    David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

    David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

    Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

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    Death of a giant

    David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

    There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

    David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019

    Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

    A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)

    Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

    https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

    It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

    Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025

    Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

    Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

    See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

    David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

    ‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

    Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

    More images in French section

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    #20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture
  17. After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: theguardian.com/science/2026/m I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.

    #science #genome #DNA #sequencing #humanGenome

  18. After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: theguardian.com/science/2026/m I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.

    #science #genome #DNA #sequencing #humanGenome

  19. After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: theguardian.com/science/2026/m I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.

    #science #genome #DNA #sequencing #humanGenome

  20. After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: theguardian.com/science/2026/m I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.

    #science #genome #DNA #sequencing #humanGenome

  21. After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: theguardian.com/science/2026/m I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.

    #science #genome #DNA #sequencing #humanGenome

  22. Jungle Rot – Cruel Face of War Review By Grin Reaper

    After four years of studio silence, Kenoshan cavemen Jungle Rot emerge from the bush with twelfth platter, Cruel Face of War. For the uninitiated, Jungle Rot plays groovy death metal that’s hostile, bludgeoning, and never dares to overthink anything. Their output has been more reliable than our coverage, and reviewing every other album since 2011’s Kill on Command, each has earned a ‘Mixed’ rating. Interestingly, the two albums we missed reviewing, Terror Regime and Jungle Rot, are the best of that group, particularly their self-titled effort. Now faced with our first consecutive Jungle Rot evaluation, can Cruel Face of War break the mold, or does it run through the Jungle on cruise control?

    ‘Consistency is key’ perseveres as a pillar of advice I mete out and live by,1 and this lesson sticks with Jungle Rot like flies on a decomposing carcass. After three decades of mouth-breathing death jams, the band still delivers freshly forged OSDM every two to four years that reeks of Obituary and Bolt Thrower. While the hardcore and deathcore vestiges have diminished,2 trace amounts of Hatebreed and Slaughter to Prevail lurk within Jungle Rot’s fetid funk, especially Dave Matrise’s vocals. To be fair, any fluctuations in their sound become conversations of degrees, and since Fueled by Hate dropped in 2004, Jungle Rot has been lodged in a groove so deep they haven’t pulled out from it yet.

    Jungle Rot sounds best when they inject a bit of melody into their formula, and those crumbs unerringly serve as the best morsels on Cruel Face of War. Maybe that’s because only those moments break up the monotony of an otherwise wearisome chuggathon, where an unvarying landscape of riffs and grooves blur together into an indistinct sea of homogenous death metal. For instance, the riffs on “When the Elders Rise” and “Rot Riffs” carry just enough character to help differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack, but otherwise, I can’t distinguish between most others without playing them back-to-back. To Jungle Rot’s credit, they possess a sound uniquely their own. But like a painter who only uses a single color, they lock themselves into a self-imposed prison of uniformity that undercuts any notion of tension or contrast.

    Despite the detractors, Jungle Rot’s adherence to convention pays dividends as well. Pit-ready grooves and stank-inducing verses make great fodder for good ol’ fashioned head-banging, and while the simplicity limits Cruel Face of War’s upside, it also ensures a stable foundation to build upon. Regarding pacing, Jungle Rot plays with two speeds: a menacing, mid-paced skulk and a faster, more predatory trot. Though they never commit to woebegone plods or balls-out blitzes, there’s just enough variety to keep things engaging without moving too far away from Jungle Rot’s established sonic ideal. Additionally, Cruel Face of War merits praise for the efficient yet expressive solos, particularly on “Cruel Face of War” and “Horrors Vile,” with Geoff Bub and David Matrise credited for guitars.3 Bassist James Genenz rumbles and groans alongside, supplying a meaty dimension to Cruel Face of War, and drummer Spenser Syphers pounds and pummels as needed. Dan “The Man” Swanö even handles mixing and mastering, granting the immediate boost he bestows to nearly everything he touches.

    Cruel Face of War never outright errs, yet Jungle Rot proves so reticent to stray from the path oft-traveled that I wonder why they recorded new material. Jungle Rot felt like a promising step forward, infusing wicked melodies into the band’s brutish brand of death metal. Since then, Jungle Rot seems content to churn out mildly different flavors of the same core recipe with rapidly diminishing returns. After thirty years of staying the course, I’m not hopeful that Jungle Rot will venture into unfamiliar territory, but without stepping outside their comfort zone, I don’t foresee them bursting free from their Jungle Rut.

    Rating: Disappointing
    DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 224 kbps mp3
    Label: Unique Leader Records
    Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
    Releases Worldwide: May 15th, 20264

    #20 #2026 #AmericanMetal #BoltThrower #CruelFaceOfWar #DeathMetal #Hatebreed #JungleRot #May26 #Obituary #Review #Reviews #SlaughterToPrevail #UniqueLeaderRecords
  23. "J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at 79.

    Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list on gene annotations, in 1995. The achievement kicked off an age of discovery in genetics, with researchers racing to decode the genomes of other pathogens—and eventually, animals."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #CraigVenter #Genetics #Genomes #Obituary

  24. "J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at 79.

    Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list on gene annotations, in 1995. The achievement kicked off an age of discovery in genetics, with researchers racing to decode the genomes of other pathogens—and eventually, animals."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #CraigVenter #Genetics #Genomes #Obituary

  25. "J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at 79.

    Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list on gene annotations, in 1995. The achievement kicked off an age of discovery in genetics, with researchers racing to decode the genomes of other pathogens—and eventually, animals."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #CraigVenter #Genetics #Genomes #Obituary