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French sculptor Claude Lalanne has died, aged 93
Her imaginative works inspired by flora and fauna sometimes carried a Surrealist touch
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Hans Ulrich Obrist remembers his friend Okwui Enwezor
Many of Enwezor's ideas "are more relevant today than ever before", Obrist says
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Pioneering artist and film-maker Agnès Varda has died, aged 90
Varda was part of France's New Wave movement and her recent documentary with street artist JR was nominated for an Oscar
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Remembering Edmund Capon, longest-serving director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
He shook up a moribund institution by abolishing entry fees and staging lively exhibitions
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David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
We meet the photographer David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book and we talk with Gijs van Hensbergen about John Richardson, who died aged 95 last week. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
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Matisse expert and archivist Wanda de Guebriant has died, aged 69
The only authorised authenticator of the artist’s work started her 40-year career as an assistant to Matisse’s daughter, Marguerite Duthuit
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Experimental film-maker Barbara Hammer dies, aged 79
The pioneer of lesbian film became an advocate for medical aid in dying
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Obituary: Lamia al-Gailani, the archaeologist who brought new life to the looted Basrah museum
She was a key figure in the post-war re-establishment of Iraq’s antiquities museums
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Okwui Enwezor, curator of Documenta and Venice Biennale, has died aged 55
Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history
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Tribute to Marella Agnelli—doyenne of high society
The art collector and museum founder who married into the Agnelli dynasty was a woman of charm and intelligence
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Tributes pour in for Italian marine archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa who died in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
He was was an expert on the battle of Egadi of 241BC
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Picasso biographer John Richardson dies, aged 95
We recently spoke to the art historian about his new book focusing on his extraordinary life, his homes and his eclectic personal collection
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The astonishing life of Johan van Gogh: Vincent's great-nephew dies aged 96
A tribute to Theo van Gogh’s grandson, who served in the Dutch secret service
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'Forces of time snatch people like devils': remembering pioneering feminist artist Carolee Schneemann
The painter, performance artist and film-maker, who won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, has died aged 79
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When Karl Lagerfeld sold his art collection
The fashion designer, who died this week at the age of 85, spent lavishly on decorating his houses in the style of the Ancien Régime
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Art world tributes for Minimalist painter Robert Ryman, who has died aged 88
“In defining art's formal limits, he was the most radical painter of his time,” says art historian Robert Storr
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Lyn Kienholz, champion of art in Southern California, has died at 88
She founded the LA History Project, which led to the exhibition series Pacific Standard Time
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Susan Hiller, a ‘paraconceptualist’ who abandoned anthropology in favour of art, has died, aged 78
“In art, the viewer can be forced into a situation that creates empathy, which cannot be done in the social sciences,” she said
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'Authority, concision and style': historian Theodore K. Rabb dies, aged 81
The specialist of the Early Modern period was a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper
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Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, dies at 96
Without Mekas, “experimental film is unthinkable”, says Stuart Comer, MoMA's chief curator of media and performance art
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Nicola L., known for her feminist functional design, has died at 81
The artist’s 50-year career transcended art and design and provided humourous political critique
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Tributes for the art historian Sister Wendy Beckett who has died, aged 88
Her unscripted commentaries on Rembrandt, Monet and Leonardo da Vinci turned her into an unlikely television star
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Robert Morris, the conceptual sculptor and leading Minimalist, has died, aged 87
We once asked the artist for his thoughts on Minimalism; he called our questions “trivial, superficial, puerile, misdirected, irrelevant, egregious, distracted, dull, feeble, breathless, gossip-mongering, smarmy and lizard-like”
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Shirin Aliabadi, known for depicting rebellious Iranian women, has died
Artist photographed women breaking free of state-imposed rules
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Geta Brătescu, Romanian multidisciplinary artist, has died aged 92
She was an important figure of the European country’s avant-garde scene with a career spanning more than six decades, but gained wider international recognition in recent years
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Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40
His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei
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Christopher Gibbs: the man who brokered £50m Getty grant to the National Gallery—and fed Princess Margaret hash brownies
The antiques dealer was more than an “acid-tripping ex-roué once known as the king of Chelsea”
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Remembering Irving Sandler
The art critic, historian and Artists Space co-founder earned the moniker "The Sweeper Up After Artists"
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Malcolm Morley, the first artist to win the Turner Prize, has died aged 86
The US-based photorealist trailblazer turned to Expressionism, experiencing a career renaissance in later years
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Podcast episode 33: Absent friends—Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered
We talk to Antony Peattie, the music writer and partner of the late Howard Hodgkin and to Barbara Haskell, curator of Robert Indiana's 2013 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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LOVE artist Robert Indiana has died, aged 89
The artist’s death came the day after a lawsuit was filed over his legacy
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Chicago dealer Richard Gray has died, aged 89
The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years
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‘Believing is seeing’: Tom Wolfe on Modern art
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
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Danish artist Per Kirkeby has died, aged 79
The painter was well known for his opaque, semi-abstract canvases inspired by natural history
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Frieze New York pays tribute to the School of Hudson
The maverick art dealer helped to shape New York’s contemporary art scene by finding and supporting some of today's biggest artists
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Abbas, Magnum photographer who focussed on political conflict and religion, dies aged 74
His documentation of the Iranian Revolution in his home country sparked a career-long fascination with the world’s major faiths
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Marcia Hafif, California artist who found her calling in Italy, has died, aged 89
Like many other female artists of her generation, the painter and performer was overlooked by most of the art world until recently
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Turner Prize nominee Gillian Ayres dies, aged 88
Abstract artist and printmaker was made a Royal Academician in 1991, but she resigned temporarily in 1997
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US painter of cosmologies Jack Whitten dies age 78
Major survey of his sculptures opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art in April before travelling to the Metropolitan Museum
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Pioneering US artist Betty Woodman dies aged 87
She was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Artist and activist Tim Rollins dies aged 62
The education pioneer founded the K.O.S. collective which challenges “elite notions of fine art”
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Christos Joachimides, who captured the Zeitgeist of 1980s Berlin, dies aged 85
Norman Rosenthal on the life of the Greek-born German curator
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Vincent Scully, fervent professor of art of architecture, has died, aged 97
His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin
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Tim Hunt—flâneur and the curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation—has died, aged 60
"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"
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Linda Nochlin: the American art historian who first pointed the finger at institutional barriers as the explanation for the absence of great female artists from the canon
She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history
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Pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin dies aged 86
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
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Bronx Museum launches director's fund in memory of Holly Block
During her decade-long tenure, she led a $25m capital campaign and quadrupled yearly visitors
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Pierre Bergé, French entrepreneur and art collector, dies aged 86
His death comes shortly before the opening of two museums dedicated to his long-term partner, the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent
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David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63
Founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang displayed pieces from his collection in his clubs and restaurants
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Tim Reeve, deputy director of the V&A, remembers Martin Roth
A sharp mind, a warm personality and a dynamic director
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Former V&A director Martin Roth has died aged 62
After heading museums in Britain and Germany, he became more politically engaged
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Death of Russia’s 'most popular' artist, a pseudo-dissident, far-Right nationalist
Ilya Glazunov gained the backing of all Russia’s presidents from Khrushchev onwards
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Harold Williams, founding president and CEO of LA’s J. Paul Getty Trust, has died
Williams led the creation of the Getty Center and grew the institution’s endowment
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China's artists defy censorship ban to mourn Liu Xiaobo
Dissident activist and Nobel laureate was last sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 and died in custody
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Pioneering American artist Daniel LaRue Johnson dies
His work is currently on show in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern
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Remembering Khadija Saye, the artist who died in the Grenfell Tower fire
Artist Nicola Green, gallery director Ingrid Swenson and Tate curator Andrew Wilson share their memories
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In pictures: the 'remarkable, powerful' works of Khadija Saye who died in Grenfell Tower blaze
Photographer’s works praised at this year's Venice Biennale and a print is due to be displayed at Tate Britain as a tribute
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Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body
He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above
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Laure de Beauvau-Craon, princess and former chair of Sotheby’s France, has died, aged 74
She fought a centuries-old monopoly of the country’s auction market—and won
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James Rosenquist: made famous by his anti-Vietnam War work, the Pop artist never went out of fashion
Rosenquist put the mass consciousness of fear and cultural contradiction in a room, outflanking all who entered it
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Vito Acconci, Body Art trailblazer, poet and architect, has died, aged 77
“Once someone said conceptual art I thought, maybe I can do that, I have ideas, there’s a place for me,” the artist said in an interview
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'Critics say Pop artists love their subject matter. Bullshit!' Remembering James Rosenquist
Pop artist, who has died aged 83, told us ahead of his 2003 Guggenheim retrospective about subverting New York billboards as a young man
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David Rockefeller, banker, philanthropist and lifetime MoMA patron, dies at age 101
The former chairman’s ties to the institution reach back to his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who helped found the museum
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Howard Hodgkin dies aged 84
British painter, described as one of the greatest colourists of his generation, won the Turner Prize in 1985 and exhibited widely including at the Met and Reina Sofia
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Spencer Hays, who donated his collection to the Musée d’Orsay, has died
The philanthropist and businessman began collecting works with his wife Marlene in the 1970s
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Gustav Metzger, auto-destructive art trailblazer, has died aged 90
Lifelong activist was “one of the truly radical artists of the 20th century”, says Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Paul Walter, the voracious New York collector, connoisseur and bon vivant pioneered photography collecting, has died
He was able to focus on the rare and the unique, and this was something the others learned from
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China mourns sudden death of provocative photographer Ren Hang
Artist's colourful nude photographs have been widely shown across Asia, Europe and the US
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Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis has died, aged 80
The sculptor was known for his use of lowly materials like coal, jute bags and piles of stones
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In memoriam, February 2017
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Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, museum founder and collector who opposed the return of artefacts to their countries of origin
When he saw an object he liked, he would never let it go. Sometimes he waited years to acquire some of them
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Saloua Raouda Choucair, pioneering Lebanese artist, dies aged 100
Tate Modern’s show in 2013 brought her abstract sculptures and paintings to a much wider audience
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Okwui Enwezor was one of the most influential curators in history
The Art Newspaper's features editor Ben Luke pays tribute
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