The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning

The Missouri-born artist, known for his shaped canvases and bold patterns, became a leading American abstract painter after moving from Paris to New York

Artist reveled in the corrosion and patination of her towering creations

The Vancouver-based artist, one of the last of a generation that shaped the city’s mid-century cultural scene, was known for his monumental abstract canvases inspired by nature

Self-taught Gillian Wilson put together the 20th century’s best collection of French decorative arts

The Californian artist and teacher won numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama

“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976

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

Curator and collaborator Hou Hanru says that the late Chinese artist provided “an alternative viewpoint on the world”

Along with his wife Gael Neeson, the plastics mogul was considered a "Nobel Laureate of Chicago Philanthropy"

He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Tributes paid to key figure of US counterculture whose work was “groundbreaking for its time”

Starting in 1983 as publications coordinator, she spent most of her three decades at the Getty overseeing its grant-making programmes

The politician, who also served as prime minister and Paris mayor, championed the founding of the Musée du Quai Branly

Lebanese artist and designer who was known for her erotic line drawings and abstract paintings was "clearly ahead of her own time"

The photographer, first known for his intimate portraits of artists, was later renowned for his monumental images of art in remote places

The German-born Canadian captured a view of the city that has since been lost, but he did not receive major recognition until late in life

Swiss-born photographer, best know for his series The Americans, had a wide and enduring impact on photography

Known for powerful imagery rooted in his native Oaxaca, he was also a cultural benefactor

The self-taught artist explored magnetic field energy in his kinetic works, admired by Duchamp and the American Beat poets

The pair created provocative installations about American society, race and sex

Jerusalem-born artist who lived 50 years in exile was a pioneer of the hurufiyya movement and one of the first to write about Palestine's art history

In this archive interview, the artist Michael Landy speaks to the London-based dealer Karsten Schubert, who died this week, about his life as a collector

The German-born gallerist and publisher was a key figure in the London art world for more than 30 years

Venezuelan artist was an important figure in the history of abstraction

The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is home to the philanthropist's collection of around 1,000 works

The tireless community advocate was found murdered last week, aged 75

The writer, curator and editor organised the influential Pictures exhibition and championed artist activism during the Aids crisis

British artist whose School of London classmates included Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach “saw beauty in everything and in everybody”, his gallery says