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

The artist worked with her husband for nearly 50 years

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

Opinionated and fearless, the English art critic, who has died aged 84, was never, ever dull

Cultural entrepreneur founded the Underground Museum

Acerbic writer suffered the occasional black eye but never pulled his punches

Federico Cerruti died with a treasure-filled house in which he had slept only one night

Page found it hard to settle and survive, and most of his creative life was spent in a state of penury worthy of La Bohème

He countered assassinations, massacres and senseless aggression with performances that physicalised the pain of a nation

Curator Massimiliano Gioni remembers artist who never failed to surprise

Lacma plans to put on show artist's 40-ft-long airship, his last project, this week

Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma

“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”

The shopping-mall entrepreneur and former chairman of Sotheby's, has died, aged 91

Shopping mall tycoon, art collector and auction house owner's eventful life included almost a year in prison<br>

He denounces the German army’s 1990 use of the painting as a recruiting ad as culpable ignorance of the nation’s history: “I claim an unwritten right, the human right to a past”

The man who made the phrase “Live long and prosper” famous was also a dedicated artist and poet