{
  "id": 6323195,
  "title": "Lucien Smith, Inventive Painter and Downtown Art-World Fixture, Dies at 37",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/lucien-smith-inventive-painter-and-downtown-art-world-fixture-dies-at",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-08T20:21:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Artnet News",
    "slug": "artnet-news",
    "url": "https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lucien-smith-obituary-2808360"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Lucien Smith, an abstract painter, has died at the age of 37. According to Hyperallergic, the cause of death has not been made public.\n\nSmith was known for his inventive practice that stretched painting beyond the brush. He was best known for his Rain Paintings series, which he began making in 2011 by spraying canvases with acrylic paint loaded into fire extinguishers.\n\nSmith was a fixture in the New York art scene, and later quit commercial galleries in 2015 to advocate for himself and others. He was born in 1989 in Los Angeles and raised in the Lower East Side until his teenage years.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hyperallergic",
        "title": "Artist Lucien Smith, Fixture of NYC’s Downtown Scene, Dies at 37",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/artist-lucien-smith-fixture-of-nycs-downtown-scene-dies-at-37",
        "published": "2026-09-08T18:44:24.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}