Her six decade-long career was distinguished by experimentation and humour

A survey of the artist's work from the last four years of her life, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum this autumn

The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century

Felsen was also a trained artist and prolific photographer, who documented his close contact with the artists who worked at Gemini

New York artist was acclaimed for the power of her paintings and quilts telling the civil rights story

"The acerbic and sometimes misanthropic troublemaker who was such a generous champion of younger artists and critics"

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

His 50-year career was filled with transgressive performances, including the Times Square Crawls, which interrogated race and class

Over seven decades, the monarch used ceremonial, media and heritage to project soft power around the globe

The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art but became a subject of satire

Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism

The outspoken leader of three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 was often publicly critical of contemporary art and architecture projects in Italy

Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens

Benefactors of his gifts include London's National Gallery, Tate Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Royal Opera House

He inherited his family's Ascott House collection of English furniture, Chinese porcelain, British paintings and Old Masters, and built a new collection of Modern and contemporary works with his third wife, Lynn Forester

The art collector and museum founder who married into the Agnelli dynasty was a woman of charm and intelligence

His death was confirmed by Epiris, the private equity firm that owns the auction house

Hugely influential art dealer whose galleries in Los Angeles and New York launched Minimalism and Land Art in the US

Expert from a French collecting dynasty saw first-hand the fast-changing art world of the 1960s and helped British Rail create its renowned collection

One of the most dynamic figures in the international expansion of Sotheby's in the 1960s and 1970s, descended from generations of collectors and men of action

For more than 20 years, Archer enriched the ceramics department of the V&A with important acquisitions and research on glass, pottery and the tin-glazed earthenware on which he was a world authority

The untimely death of the distinguished Tate Modern curator, who died last week at the age of 56, "leaves an enormous gap", writes former Tate director Nicholas Serota

Scholar with an international outlook who was director of the Henry Moore Foundation and executor of his mother-in-law, Barbara Hepworth

His successor at the London institution pays personal tribute to the persuasive and effective British curator, writer and critic

Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings

Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic

Two of his most famous buildings, the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth and the Trinity Car Park and Shopping Centre in Gateshead, were demolished earlier this century

Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors

Landau, whose discerning eye and aesthetic curiosity made her a fixture in the art world from the 1980s onward, began collecting after receiving an insurance settlement for a jewellery heist at her home

A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department

The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders

Writer, translator of Virginia Woolf, and historian of gardening and farming she became a champion of conservation by co-founding Italia Nostra

The death of Jean-Louis Georgelin might hamper efforts to reopen the cathedral by the end of 2024

The restorer expertly honoured the "oneness of a work of art" and always balanced its historical and aesthetic qualities

A remarkable cultural ambassador in London's art, political, and musical scene and on return visits to her native Russia. One of the founders of Venice in Peril

In everything he made—clothes, spectacles inspired by his trademark round lenses, home furnishings, parfumerie—Takada's love of fine art remained close at hand

From Habitat to the Design Museum, from the Soup Kitchen to Quaglino’s, he transformed Britain’s cultural landscape

Best known for his album covers for bands including Depeche Mode, the UK photographer was influenced by the heavy industry of the Black Country where he grew up

The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Social observation was key to the work of the recently rediscovered protégée of Francesco Scavullo and Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographer, diarist, and collagist who highlighted the destruction of the African elephant's habitat and bestrode New York society in the era of Studio 54