“In art, the viewer can be forced into a situation that creates empathy, which cannot be done in the social sciences,” she said

The specialist of the Early Modern period was a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper

Without Mekas, “experimental film is unthinkable”, says Stuart Comer, MoMA's chief curator of media and performance art

The artist’s 50-year career transcended art and design and provided humourous political critique

Her unscripted commentaries on Rembrandt, Monet and Leonardo da Vinci turned her into an unlikely television star

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”

Artist photographed women breaking free of state-imposed rules

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

His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei

The antiques dealer was more than an “acid-tripping ex-roué once known as the king of Chelsea”

Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg says it will represent his legacy and estate with “honour, respect and responsibility”

The art critic, historian and Artists Space co-founder earned the moniker "The Sweeper Up After Artists"

The US-based photorealist trailblazer turned to Expressionism, experiencing a career renaissance in later years

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.

The artist’s death came the day after a lawsuit was filed over his legacy

The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years

The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic

The painter was well known for his opaque, semi-abstract canvases inspired by natural history

The maverick art dealer helped to shape New York’s contemporary art scene by finding and supporting some of today's biggest artists

His documentation of the Iranian Revolution in his home country sparked a career-long fascination with the world’s major faiths

Like many other female artists of her generation, the painter and performer was overlooked by most of the art world until recently

Abstract artist and printmaker was made a Royal Academician in 1991, but she resigned temporarily in 1997

Major survey of his sculptures opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art in April before travelling to the Metropolitan Museum

She was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The education pioneer founded the K.O.S. collective which challenges “elite notions of fine art”

Norman Rosenthal on the life of the Greek-born German curator

His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin

She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history

"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"

Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history