Obituaries
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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
Remembering Jane Farver, Moira Gemmill, Edward Douglas Coke, James Malpas and Piotr Piotrowski
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
The artist, critic and bon vivant was credited with propelling Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame
His pioneering work brought new aspects of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology to light.
The last surviving child of Baron Alphonse von Rothschild, of the Austrian branch of that family, dies aged 88.
One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay
The French musician, museum director, public servant and man of many letters.
Art dealer who forged a successful business in Italy and New York from the 1950s.
Art world remembers a great art dealer, collector and museum founder
In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein
Federico Zeri, an independent mind
A formidable connoisseur, academic and museum director who inspired many top figures in the British art world.
Mumbay Pupal Jayakar, a towering figure of Indian cultural life for the last fifty years, died aged eighty-one in March.