Obituaries
Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India
Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals
Paul Lowe, conflict photographer and teacher lauded for Sarajevo siege photographs, dies, aged 60
Acclaimed photojournalist's teenage son charged with his murder on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles
François Duret-Robert, art market journalist, professor and collector, has died aged 92
The former editor of Connaissance des Arts was a leading figure in the French art market
Derek Boshier, British Pop artist widely known for his collaborations with David Bowie, has died, aged 87
Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism
‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80
Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation
An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists
The artistic director of Serpentine, recalls 35 years of friendship and collaboration with the cultural impresario who was one of the most important curators of the second half of the 20th century
Remembering Alain Delon, screen idol and dedicated art collector, who has died aged 88
A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque
Kasper König, pioneering curator and co-founder of Skulptur Projekte Münster, dies aged 80
The former director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig “shaped the art discourse of the last five decades like no other", the museum says
Alex Janvier, visionary First Nations artist based in Canada, has died, aged 89
A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums
Remembering Thomas Hoepker, a leading documentary photographer and editor of news reportage
Hoepker used long-form pictorial narratives to deliver nuanced takes on complex realities in a communist East Germany and capitalist United States
Remembering Bill Viola, the artist whose video work expresses the heights and depths of human emotions
The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years
Audrey Flack, a pioneer of Photorealism, has died, aged 93
A survey of the artist's work from the last four years of her life, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum this autumn
Remembering the Dutch avant-garde artist Jacqueline de Jong
Her six decade-long career was distinguished by experimentation and humour
Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86
An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylised drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings
Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation
The American artist married complex with simple, from Minimalist canvases to “maximalist” sculptures
Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world
"The acerbic and sometimes misanthropic troublemaker who was such a generous champion of younger artists and critics"
Remembering Faith Ringgold, one of the great story-tellers of American art
New York artist was acclaimed for the power of her paintings and quilts telling the civil rights story
Leading New York gallerist Barbara Gladstone has died, aged 89
The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century
Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36
In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”
Sidney Felsen, co-founder of influential Los Angeles printmaking studio Gemini GEL, has died, aged 99
Felsen was also a trained artist and prolific photographer, who documented his close contact with the artists who worked at Gemini
Benjamin Vautier, a French Fluxus artist known for his playful painted phrases, has died, aged 88
His irreverent texts, signed simply “Ben”, spanned art and merchandise that was ubiquitous in France
Israeli artist, curator and gallery founder Chaim Peri has died in Hamas captivity, aged 79
Peri, who was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October, was a multi-disciplinary artist and activist who founded The White House gallery
Remembering Paul Auster, the ground-breaking novelist who fused art and literature
The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work
Bonhams executive Alex Fortescue has died aged 55
His death was confirmed by Epiris, the private equity firm that owns the auction house
Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87
His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects
Faith Ringgold, acclaimed for the power of paintings and quilts that tell stories of the Civil Rights movement, has died, aged 93
A champion of fellow Black and women artists, the New York-born painter and sculptor made a second reputation as writer and illustrator of admired children's stories
Richard Serra, creator of audacious steel sculptures, has died aged 85
The American sculptor received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87
His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic
Lucas Samaras, tirelessly adventurous New York artist, has died, aged 87
The Greek American artist was always willing to try new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, installation and more