Obituaries

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Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso

33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed

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Matthew Collings on his heady days with David Bowie

The superstar art lover backed the British critic's first forays into book publishing

Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie

British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood

Ellsworth Kelly, trailblazing American painter, dies at 92

The artist’s optimism carried through into his late years

Abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly has died, aged 92

The New York-born artist continued working right up to the end, with a slew of exhibitions this year

Charles Moffett, former Sotheby’s vice chairman, dies at 70

Before working at the auction house for 16 years, he had a long and distinguished career as a curator at national museums

British art dealer Leslie Waddington dies at 81

A loyal champion of British painters, he helped bring post-war American art to London

Andrew Ciechanowiecki, the Polish-born art dealer who endured 18 months of interrogation and torture

The powers of persuasion that were to make him such a formidable dealer proved useful in captivity, after he was arrested during the Stalinist purges

Hilla Becher, a photographer who stripped personal style from images of Industrial Age machine structures

Is it possible to imagine a blast furnace or a gas holder any other way than as the Bechers saw it—set against a blank and cloudless light-grey sky?

Polish Op artist Wojciech Fangor dies at 92

Best known for circular abstract works, he lived for many years in the West and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York

German photographer Hilla Becher dies at 81

The artist worked with her husband for nearly 50 years

Brian Sewell, English critic whose public role as reactionary curmudgeon falsified the realities of his life

His yearly attack on the Turner Prize was more than just the bile of an ageing critic. To Sewell, art was a serious business, a thing apart

Reminiscences of Brian Sewell

Opinionated and fearless, the English art critic, who has died aged 84, was never, ever dull

Artist and curator Noah Davis dies aged 32

Cultural entrepreneur founded the Underground Museum

British art critic Brian Sewell has died

Acerbic writer suffered the occasional black eye but never pulled his punches

Was this unknown man Italy’s greatest collector?

Federico Cerruti died with a treasure-filled house in which he had slept only one night

Robin Page: Pioneering British Fluxus artist and art-world rebel

Page found it hard to settle and survive, and most of his creative life was spent in a state of penury worthy of La Bohème

Chris Burden: US performance artist and sculptor who restlessly searched for alternative visions

He countered assassinations, massacres and senseless aggression with performances that physicalised the pain of a nation

In memoriam, June 2015

Remembering Jane Farver, Moira Gemmill, Edward Douglas Coke, James Malpas and Piotr Piotrowski

Inside Chris Burden's briefcase

Curator Massimiliano Gioni remembers artist who never failed to surprise

Remembering Chris Burden, the artist who traded daredevil performances for daring engineering

Lacma plans to put on show artist's 40-ft-long airship, his last project, this week

Chris Burden, the US sculptor and performance artist, has died, aged 69

Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma

Betty Churcher: educator and director of the National Gallery of Australia

“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”