The 1960s Counterculture Artist Peter Max Has Died and More Art News
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Peter Max, whose cheerful graphic images helped define 1960s hippie culture, has died at age 88. Sotheby’s Paris is auctioning a rare Monet painting of irises from the Jeanne Schlumberger collection, expected to break the country’s auction record. The Interior Department has detailed plans for 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History, which will warn the public that the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibitions are inaccurate. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Peter Max, whose cheerful graphic images helped define 1960s hippie and Summer of Love culture, has died at age 88, reports The New York Times. You know his colorful, kaleidoscopic imagery even if you don’t think you do. He is the hand behind psychedelic, beaming peace signs and suns with swirling planets and rainbow skies traversed by flower children in bellbottoms, funky hats, and long hair. Reprinted on all kinds of products and posters hung in the bedrooms of youth around the world, …
