News

Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93

Obituaries

An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists

Remembering Alain Delon, screen idol and dedicated art collector, who has died aged 88

Remembering Bill Viola, the artist whose video work expresses the heights and depths of human emotions

Remembering the Dutch avant-garde artist Jacqueline de Jong

Art and artists

Obituaries of painters, sculptors and digital artists

Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation

Remembering Faith Ringgold, one of the great story-tellers of American art

Faith Ringgold

Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world

Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36

Russia-Ukraine war

Remembering Pope.L, the self-proclaimed 'friendliest Black artist in America'

Politics and society

Obituaries of politicians, heads of state and social leaders connected to art and the art world

Remembering Henry Kissinger, master of art politics, whose Cold War diplomacy still had resonance in 2023

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II, the British sovereign who perfected the fine art of monarchy

Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)

Pope Benedict XVI, for eight years proprietor in trust of the Vatican's library and art collection, has died aged 95

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights champion inspired by artists' involvement in social causes, has died, aged 96

Silvio Berlusconi, politician and early proponent of 'culture war' rhetoric, has died, aged 86

Philanthropy

Remembering Jacob Rothschild, banker, collector, philanthropist, and a towering figure in the British art world

Remembering Myriam Ullens, art collector, and philanthropist, who launched the first contemporary art museum in China

John Sainsbury, former supermarket boss and major patron of British museums, has died aged 94

Evelyn de Rothschild—banker, collector, art patron and philanthropist—has died, aged 91

Rothschild

Tribute to Marella Agnelli—doyenne of high society

Art market

Leading New York gallerist Barbara Gladstone has died, aged 89

Gladstone Gallery

Bonhams executive Alex Fortescue has died aged 55

Auction houses

Remembering Virginia Dwan: champion of land artists and the US's first bicoastal gallerist

Art on Location

Remembering Michel Strauss, Impressionist supremo at Sotheby’s over four decades

Peregrine Pollen, who revitalised auction industry and laid the ground for the booming art market of the 21st century, has died, age 89

Art criticism

Remembering Peter Schjeldahl: indispensable critic, poet, and lyrical observer of the embodied experience of art 

Considering Greg Tate’s transformative impact on cultural criticism

Dave Hickey, influential critic who saw art as inseparable from everyday life, has died aged 82

Art history and scholarship

Remembering Kavita Singh, acclaimed historian of Indian art and museology, who has died, aged 58 

Remembering Richard Verdi, art historian and long-time director of the Barber Institute, who has died, aged 81 

John Harris—an architectural historian and eagle-eyed connoisseur—has died, aged 90

Museums

Influential French curator Vincent Honoré, who put on shows at Tate Modern and Palais de Tokyo, has died

Curators

Remembering Michael Archer, member of a golden age of curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who has died, aged 85

Achim Borchardt-Hume (1965-2021): an appreciation

Alan Bowness, museum director who established the Turner Prize and Tate Liverpool, has died aged 93

Remembering Alan Bowness, Tate director who helped change public attitudes to contemporary art

Architecture

Remembering Richard Rogers, Centre Pompidou architect who waded into the culture wars with his unique, hi-tech style

Rafael Viñoly—museum 'starchitect' who believed in experience over aesthetics—has died, aged 78

Remembering Balkrishna Doshi, artist, teacher and father of modernist Indian architecture, who has died, aged 95

Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87

Remembering Owen Luder, architect whose gifts ran far wider than the Brutalist landmarks he is known for

Collecting

Hamburg art collector and patron Harald Falckenberg dies aged 80

Collectors

Remembering Barry Humphries, art lover, artist and creator of Dame Edna Everage, who has died, aged 89

Emily Fisher Landau, contemporary art collector and important Whitney Museum benefactor, has died, aged 102

Remembering Jayne Wrightsman

Eli Broad, an unexpected—and often unreasonable—arts patron

Los Angeles

Heritage

Richard M. Barancik, the last living Monuments Man, has died, aged 98

Remembering Desideria Pasolini Dall'Onda, who battled to protect Italy's ecology and cultural heritage

French general in charge of Notre Dame rebuild dies in a hiking accident

Museums & Heritage

Remembering Gianluigi Colalucci, who oversaw the 14-year restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

Obituary: Nathalie Brooke, a leading figure in the preservation of Venice

Fashion and design

Remembering Vivienne Westwood, godmother of punk and designer to the art tribe, who has died aged 81

Issey Miyake, ground-breaking Japanese fashion designer and favourite of museum costume institutes, has died, aged 84

Remembering Kenzo Takada, the designer and artist who created the first global, multicultural, fashion brand

Remembering Terence Conran: a design maestro who rose alongside groovy London in the Swinging Sixties

Photography

'The Charlie Chaplin of street photography': Elliott Erwitt remembered by those who knew him best

Brian Griffin, photographer of rock stars and construction workers, has died aged 75

Photographers

Kwame Brathwaite, photographer who encapsulated ‘Black is beautiful’ movement, has died, aged 85

Marilyn Stafford, a pioneer of street and fashion photography, has died, aged 97

Remembering Peter Beard, photographer and artist, champion of East African wildlife, friend and collaborator of Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol

Theatre and film

Peter Brook, a giant of international theatre whose stage work moved in sympathy with the visual arts, has died, aged 97

'A meteor blazing through the world': tributes pour in for the influential film producer Jess Search

Kenneth Anger, creator of visionary and transgressive films, has died, aged 96

Literature

Remembering Paul Auster, the ground-breaking novelist who fused art and literature

Remembering Raymond Briggs: pioneering illustrator and creator of beloved book The Snowman 

‘As if he has just left the room’: a farewell tour of the studio of Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman

Artists

Adrian Ward-Jackson has died

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