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BreakingDolly Parton Official SiteNashvilleDolly Parton has died in Nashville at 80Dolly Parton’s official site and family memorial confirm the singer-songwriter, actor and philanthropist died on 25 August 2026 in Nashville. Representatives told the USA TODAY Network she died at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center after a brief, previously undisclosed cancer battle; the type of cancer was not named. A small private family service will be held at her request, with donations directed to the Imagination Library. Her husband, Carl Dean, died in March 2025.
BreakingYayoi Kusama Official SiteTokyoYayoi Kusama has died in Tokyo at 97Yayoi Kusama Inc. and Yayoi Kusama Studio announced on 27 August that the artist died on 14 August at a Tokyo hospital, and that she continued to paint until her final days.BreakingBBC NewsLondonDavid Hockney, painter of pools and Yorkshire light, has died at 88Hockney’s representatives said the Bradford-born artist died peacefully at home on 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday. BBC and The Art Newspaper reported King Charles, Keir Starmer and Tate Britain among the tributes. Born 9 July 1937, he was known for Los Angeles pool paintings including A Bigger Splash (1967), Yorkshire and Normandy landscapes, and iPad drawings. He is survived by partner Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, great-nephew Richard Hockney, and brothers Philip and John. Tate said planned 2027 Tate Britain and Tate Modern projects will continue.BreakingArtribuneFranco Fontana, Italian colour photographer, dies at 92 in ModenaNordjyske Museer (official press release)Denmark’s largest known Viking Age silver hoard — 18.5kg from a Rebild garden — unveiled by Nordjyske MuseerThe Associated PressNew YorkGloria Steinem, Ms. magazine co-founder and figurehead of US feminism, dies at 92Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday 2 September 2026 at her home in New York City, aged 92. Her foundation announced the death on 3 September, saying she “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, and disclosed no cause. Ms., the magazine she co-founded, confirmed she was 92 and had kept working for equality to the end; the Associated Press reported she had been in declining health and had recently finished a memoir due this autumn. ARTnews devoted a same-day appraisal to her long ties to artists and the art world.ARTnewsWashingtonUPDATE (2 Sep 2026, 12:01pm): Ivy Shapiro told the New York Times her father would have been "alarmed" by the Kennedy Center removal of Blue (2019), calling it one of his greatest site-specific commissions of joy, freedom and creativity. NYT: limbs dismantled Wednesday. WTOP + FOX 5 DC: NPS closed Rock Creek Parkway NB ~6am–1pm Wed 2 Sep for a crane lift at the REACH. KC said the Shapiro/Phelan foundation will decide next display and thanked years Blue "spent animating our campus," with no public why. Hands Off the Arts: façade then grounds. Did not invent dollar value or next venue.Corriere della SeraVeniceVenice Biennale president says he would host Russian Pavilion againBreakingARTnewsSpanish coverage of the 27 August 2026 early-morning raid on Villena’s MUVI museum says Guardia Civil investigators are seeking three hooded people who removed most of the Bronze Age Villena Treasure display in minutes after alarms sounded around 05:20. Mayor Fulgencio Cerdán said most of the jewels were taken and that the city is devastated; ARTnews reported an about €1.7 million estimate for the stolen gold pieces.

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