Obituaries
Lyn Kienholz, champion of art in Southern California, has died at 88
She founded the LA History Project, which led to the exhibition series Pacific Standard Time
Susan Hiller, a ‘paraconceptualist’ who abandoned anthropology in favour of art, has died, aged 78
“In art, the viewer can be forced into a situation that creates empathy, which cannot be done in the social sciences,” she said
'Authority, concision and style': historian Theodore K. Rabb dies, aged 81
The specialist of the Early Modern period was a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper
Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, dies at 96
Without Mekas, “experimental film is unthinkable”, says Stuart Comer, MoMA's chief curator of media and performance art
Nicola L., known for her feminist functional design, has died at 81
The artist’s 50-year career transcended art and design and provided humourous political critique
Tributes for the art historian Sister Wendy Beckett who has died, aged 88
Her unscripted commentaries on Rembrandt, Monet and Leonardo da Vinci turned her into an unlikely television star
Robert Morris, the conceptual sculptor and leading Minimalist, has died, aged 87
We once asked the artist for his thoughts on Minimalism; he called our questions “trivial, superficial, puerile, misdirected, irrelevant, egregious, distracted, dull, feeble, breathless, gossip-mongering, smarmy and lizard-like”
Shirin Aliabadi, known for depicting rebellious Iranian women, has died
Artist photographed women breaking free of state-imposed rules
Geta Brătescu, Romanian multidisciplinary artist, has died aged 92
She was an important figure of the European country’s avant-garde scene with a career spanning more than six decades, but gained wider international recognition in recent years
Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40
His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei
Christopher Gibbs: the man who brokered £50m Getty grant to the National Gallery—and fed Princess Margaret hash brownies
The antiques dealer was more than an “acid-tripping ex-roué once known as the king of Chelsea”
In pictures: South African photographer David Goldblatt, who captured the harsh reality of apartheid, dies aged 87
Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg says it will represent his legacy and estate with “honour, respect and responsibility”
Remembering Irving Sandler
The art critic, historian and Artists Space co-founder earned the moniker "The Sweeper Up After Artists"
Malcolm Morley, the first artist to win the Turner Prize, has died aged 86
The US-based photorealist trailblazer turned to Expressionism, experiencing a career renaissance in later years
Podcast episode 33: Absent friends—Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered
We talk to Antony Peattie, the music writer and partner of the late Howard Hodgkin and to Barbara Haskell, curator of Robert Indiana's 2013 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
LOVE artist Robert Indiana has died, aged 89
The artist’s death came the day after a lawsuit was filed over his legacy
Chicago dealer Richard Gray has died, aged 89
The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years
‘Believing is seeing’: Tom Wolfe on Modern art
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
Danish artist Per Kirkeby has died, aged 79
The painter was well known for his opaque, semi-abstract canvases inspired by natural history
Frieze New York pays tribute to the School of Hudson
The maverick art dealer helped to shape New York’s contemporary art scene by finding and supporting some of today's biggest artists
Abbas, Magnum photographer who focussed on political conflict and religion, dies aged 74
His documentation of the Iranian Revolution in his home country sparked a career-long fascination with the world’s major faiths
Marcia Hafif, California artist who found her calling in Italy, has died, aged 89
Like many other female artists of her generation, the painter and performer was overlooked by most of the art world until recently
Turner Prize nominee Gillian Ayres dies, aged 88
Abstract artist and printmaker was made a Royal Academician in 1991, but she resigned temporarily in 1997
US painter of cosmologies Jack Whitten dies age 78
Major survey of his sculptures opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art in April before travelling to the Metropolitan Museum
Pioneering US artist Betty Woodman dies aged 87
She was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist and activist Tim Rollins dies aged 62
The education pioneer founded the K.O.S. collective which challenges “elite notions of fine art”
Christos Joachimides, who captured the Zeitgeist of 1980s Berlin, dies aged 85
Norman Rosenthal on the life of the Greek-born German curator
Vincent Scully, fervent professor of art of architecture, has died, aged 97
His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin
Linda Nochlin: the American art historian who first pointed the finger at institutional barriers as the explanation for the absence of great female artists from the canon
She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history
Tim Hunt—flâneur and the curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation—has died, aged 60
"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"