Since I heard about this artist and his wife, I have been following them with Google News alerts. I guess I wanted to see how long they would live. Well, sadly, Arakawa has just died. You can read the story and other information about him in this article.
wow, he looked really young for 70 though
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/20/nyregion/obit-ARAKAWA2/obit-ARAKAWA2-popup.jpg
