Obituaries
Ellsworth Kelly, trailblazing American painter, dies at 92
The artist’s optimism carried through into his late years
Abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly has died, aged 92
The New York-born artist continued working right up to the end, with a slew of exhibitions this year
Charles Moffett, former Sotheby’s vice chairman, dies at 70
Before working at the auction house for 16 years, he had a long and distinguished career as a curator at national museums
British art dealer Leslie Waddington dies at 81
A loyal champion of British painters, he helped bring post-war American art to London
Andrew Ciechanowiecki, the Polish-born art dealer who endured 18 months of interrogation and torture
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
Hilla Becher, a photographer who stripped personal style from images of Industrial Age machine structures
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?
Polish Op artist Wojciech Fangor dies at 92
Best known for circular abstract works, he lived for many years in the West and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York
Brian Sewell, English critic whose public role as reactionary curmudgeon falsified the realities of his life
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
Reminiscences of Brian Sewell
Opinionated and fearless, the English art critic, who has died aged 84, was never, ever dull
Artist and curator Noah Davis dies aged 32
Cultural entrepreneur founded the Underground Museum
British art critic Brian Sewell has died
Acerbic writer suffered the occasional black eye but never pulled his punches
Was this unknown man Italy’s greatest collector?
Federico Cerruti died with a treasure-filled house in which he had slept only one night
Robin Page: Pioneering British Fluxus artist and art-world rebel
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
Chris Burden: US performance artist and sculptor who restlessly searched for alternative visions
He countered assassinations, massacres and senseless aggression with performances that physicalised the pain of a nation
In memoriam, June 2015
Remembering Jane Farver, Moira Gemmill, Edward Douglas Coke, James Malpas and Piotr Piotrowski
Inside Chris Burden's briefcase
Curator Massimiliano Gioni remembers artist who never failed to surprise
Remembering Chris Burden, the artist who traded daredevil performances for daring engineering
Lacma plans to put on show artist's 40-ft-long airship, his last project, this week
Chris Burden, the US sculptor and performance artist, has died, aged 69
Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma
Betty Churcher: educator and director of the National Gallery of Australia
“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”
Alfred Taubman: art and root beer
The shopping-mall entrepreneur and former chairman of Sotheby's, has died, aged 91
Alfred Taubman, former Sotheby's chairman, has died, aged 91
Shopping mall tycoon, art collector and auction house owner's eventful life included almost a year in prison<br>
How Günter Grass, writer, sculptor and draughtsman, who died 13 April 2015, furiously defended Picasso’s Guernica
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”
Leonard Nimoy, photographer, actor, Spock
The man who made the phrase “Live long and prosper” famous was also a dedicated artist and poet