Gene Beery, whose irreverent text-based paintings presaged the work of Conceptualists such as John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner, died on November 19 at the age of eighty-six.
The residence that belonged to Alexander Iolas the Greek-American gallerist who discovered Andy Warhol was looted and vandalized after his death in 1987. However, as with all martyrdom sites, it has become a temple that still attracts devotees of contemporary art