Carlos Cruz-Diez, born on August 17, 1923, in Caracas, Venezuela, emerged as a defining force in Kinetic and Op art. The son of Carlos Eduardo Cruz Lander, a chemist and poet of Canarian descent, and ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with color and the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris. He was 95. “Your love, ...

The Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, known for his innovations in kinetic and Op art, has died in Paris, aged 95. According to a statement posted on his foundation’s website, Cruz-Diez died of ...

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This summer, the London gallery space of Phillips is playing host to a glorious ocular ambush by Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the founding fathers of the op art movement. A union ...

Each year, Art Basel Miami is the place to be if you want to see unlikely, unexpected art collaborations, be they between artists from different disciplines, to fashion and art, or music and art, or ...

Born in Caracas in 1923, Carlos Cruz-Diez discovered a love of drawing as a child, enrolling at age 17 at the city’s School of Fine Art, where his peers included Jesús Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero, ...

CARACAS — Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with color and the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris. He was 95. ‘‘Your love, your joy, ...

Famed kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez—who passed away this past July at the age of 95—once said that a work of art “needs the viewer’s participation in order to become real. It’s not about passive ...

The Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, known for his innovations in kinetic and Op art, has died in Paris, aged 95. According to a statement posted on his foundation’s website, Cruz-Diez died of ...

It wasn’t so long ago that works by Miami-born artists were a rarity on museum walls, even in Miami. As South Florida’s visual arts community has matured, so has global recognition of our artists.