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    Artnet, NY
    Aug 4 2005

    Artnet News

    Aug. 4, 2005

    STEVEN VINCENT, 1956-2005

    Steven Vincent, 49, art writer and reporter who had contributed to
    Art + Auction magazine, Art in America and the New York Times, was
    shot and killed after he was abducted in Basra in Iraq on July 2, 2005.

    Steven Vincent was a noble, courageous soul and my close friend for
    over a decade. Recruited by Bruce Wolmer, longtime editor of Art +
    Auction magazine, Steve became a first-rate art journalist, whose
    command of details in investigative pieces was second to none.

    But 9/11 changed everything for Steve, a longtime resident of the
    East Village. He was determined to go to Iraq in service to both
    his country and to the truth. A classic liberal activist of the old
    school, Steven spent three tours of journalistic duty in Iraq with
    no protection other than his pen. For this he gave his life.

    As other commentators more eloquent than I have pointed out, his op-ed
    piece in the New York Times this past Sunday in which he questioned
    the Shi'ite control of Basra led directly to his assassination. Of
    Armenian descent, Steve was long attracted to the life and traditions
    of the Middle East, writing about Shi'ite culture for Harper's magazine
    and many other publications.

    His book In the Red Zone was a classic of naked on-the-ground
    shoe-leather journalism.

    Steve's death has brought together many of his friends in the New
    York art world, an intimate place in both joy and sorrow. The world
    has lost a unique, stubborn, confrontational, intellectually curious
    soul. May God grant him and his family grace.

    -- Charlie Finch
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