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Officials announced that, from the Prado museum to the Pompidou Centre and New York’s Met, the art world has rallied to stage “an unprecedented” 42 exhibitions marking 50 years since Pablo Picasso’s death. Prepared over the past 18 months by France and Spain, the “Year of Picasso” initiative will involve “38 significant art institutions in…

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Olivia Newton-John, the Australian singer whose voice and natural beauty made her one of the biggest pop stars of the ’70s and captivated generations of viewers in the hit movie “Grease,” died on Monday, according to a statement from her husband. She was 73. Her husband, John Easterling, wrote in a statement on Newton-John’s Instagram…

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died on Monday, November 26, 2018. He was 57 years old. The cause of death was Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and results in a loss of muscle strength and control. Hillenburg originally…

The story of the incredible man behind the world’s most popular superheroes ended on Monday, November 12, 2018, when the world-famous Stan Lee died at the age of 95. The cause of Lee’s death has yet to be released, but he was rushed to the emergency room earlier in the morning and had his death…

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