Obituaries
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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
Italian writer and philosopher, best known for the thriller The Name of the Rose, also wrote about aesthetics
The son of Alabama sharecroppers, he created sculptures, drawings and paintings from salvaged materials
33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed
The superstar art lover backed the British critic's first forays into book publishing
British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood
He saved his greatest contempt for those in the art world he considered less than honest
The artist’s optimism carried through into his late years
The New York-born artist continued working right up to the end, with a slew of exhibitions this year
Before working at the auction house for 16 years, he had a long and distinguished career as a curator at national museums
A loyal champion of British painters, he helped bring post-war American art to London
The powers of persuasion that were to make him such a formidable dealer proved useful in captivity, after he was arrested during the Stalinist purges
Is it possible to imagine a blast furnace or a gas holder any other way than as the Bechers saw it—set against a blank and cloudless light-grey sky?
Best known for circular abstract works, he lived for many years in the West and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York
His yearly attack on the Turner Prize was more than just the bile of an ageing critic. To Sewell, art was a serious business, a thing apart
