Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 June 1977

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

During a series of lectures protesting the closing of the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art by the Flemish Minister of Culture, I lay outside in front of the door with a note that read 'Ignore the Artist'. Artists have not been consulted for decades in decisions regarding museums of contemporary art. In an ideal world fellow artists and art lovers would have dragged me inside to emphasise that artists do indeed belong in a Museum for Contemporary Art and not outside it, but nobody did so.
(23 November 2025)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 23rd of June 1977 49 years, 1 months and 26 days ago
Child killer Jérôme Carrein is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Douai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Carrein was the second-to-last convicted criminal to be executed by the guillotine in France.