Satirical material was visited upon him and he responded with more thought to entertaining his audience than to doing justice to his achievements

Art historian, independent curator and lecturer, he wrote eruditely and amusingly about museums

Fo spent his life whipping up jolly storms, claiming “freedom of opinion and happiness of existence through rage and laughter”

Painter who created “face landscapes” has works in major public collections around the world

He was closely involved in noble houses’ restitution claims after German reunification

Emirati who created constructivist drawings and performance pieces in the desert was “probably the greatest artist from the UAE”<br>

The photographer did not believe photography could change the world—but it could reveal its changes

The philanthropist couple, who escaped the Nazis in Poland, enriched Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts

Many of the works owned by Gerald Grosvenor, who has died aged 64, have been loaned over the years to a small museum near the family seat in Chester <br>

Although the Soviet leader once called his work “degenerate”, the artist was asked to design his tombstone

The late Iranian artist considered “still pictures” the perfect, poetic counterpart to moving images

The independent-minded philanthropist whose life was touched by tragedy

Known for his surreal sculptures and performances, he was the first contemporary artist to exhibit work at the Louvre

The Nonconformist artist also accommodated the Soviet regime

Co-founder of kinetic and optical art collective Grav worked with neon for the past six decades

He resembled such plutocratic founders of museums as J. Paul Getty in hating overspending. He distrusted dealers: auctions revealed the true price

He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2007

Adrian Ellis remembers the late architect he first met during the Cardiff Opera House debacle

Iraqi-born designer was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize

She was the first woman to hold the Slade professorship of fine art at Cambridge University and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Mild-mannered but ambitious, he was known for uniting Russia’s increasingly divided art world