Mike Kelley, the daring and influential contemporary installation artist ... has died, police said Wednesday. He was 57. Kelley's body was found at his home Tuesday night and it appeared he had committed suicide, South Pasadena Police Sgt. "His work was widely collected and exhibited internationally," said Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "... Artists like that don't come around very often." Kelley's work will be included in the upcoming 2012 Whitney biennial in New York. "Mike was an irresistible force in contemporary art," Kelley's studio, Gagosian Gallery, said in a statement...
