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

During her decade-long tenure, she led a $25m capital campaign and quadrupled yearly visitors

His death comes shortly before the opening of two museums dedicated to his long-term partner, the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent

Founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang displayed pieces from his collection in his clubs and restaurants

A sharp mind, a warm personality and a dynamic director

After heading museums in Britain and Germany, he became more politically engaged

Ilya Glazunov gained the backing of all Russia’s presidents from Khrushchev onwards

Williams led the creation of the Getty Center and grew the institution’s endowment

Dissident activist and Nobel laureate was last sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 and died in custody

His work is currently on show in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern

Artist Nicola Green, gallery director Ingrid Swenson and Tate curator Andrew Wilson share their memories

Photographer’s works praised at this year's Venice Biennale and a print is due to be displayed at Tate Britain as a tribute

He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above

Rosenquist put the mass consciousness of fear and cultural contradiction in a room, outflanking all who entered it

She fought a centuries-old monopoly of the country’s auction market—and won

“Once someone said conceptual art I thought, maybe I can do that, I have ideas, there’s a place for me,” the artist said in an interview

Pop artist, who has died aged 83, told us ahead of his 2003 Guggenheim retrospective about subverting New York billboards as a young man

The many cultural initiatives of Olivetti’s and Fiat’s arts director

The former chairman’s ties to the institution reach back to his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who helped found the museum

British painter, described as one of the greatest colourists of his generation, won the Turner Prize in 1985 and exhibited widely including at the Met and Reina Sofia