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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-03T16:32:15.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.artforum.com",
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  "textContent": "Critic, poet, and publisher Giancarlo Politi, founder of the influential contemporary art journal Flash Art, one of the first international publications of its kind, died on February 24. He was eighty-nine. Politi, over a career spanning more than five decades, shaped the global contemporary art scene through the establishment of a publishing house, an art-world directory, a […]",
  "title": "Flash Art Founder Giancarlo Politi Dies at 89"
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