Two artists, each in his own way a man of the Sixties and whose work provided a watershed in his chosen sphere, have left us.
Lou Reed, the pop star who changed the meaning of the title more than anyone in the 'sixties/'seventies, has died at 71. He left us a raft-full of new blueprints, their influence already disseminated widely by the millenium's end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMCS_xwtNk
For more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24698207
Anthony Caro, the man whose medium was really the air-space contained by his big, brightly coloured constructions, has died at the age of 89. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/10401828/Sir-Anthony-Caro-British-sculptor-dies-aged-89.html