Obituary

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The curator of the late artist’s first exhibition in Greece remembers their friendship

BY Dimitrios Antonitsis | 15 AUG 23

Jarett Kobek reflects on his relationship with the late cult filmmaker and Hollywood Babylon author

BY Jarett Kobek | 30 MAY 23

Author Nick Blackburn on the sudden loss of the British drag icon and gay rights activist

BY Nick Blackburn | 30 MAR 23

The British sculptor who raised the humble to the monumental is honoured by former students and colleagues

Looking back on the pioneering artist, curator and media theorist’s life and career

BY Ben Livne Weitzman | 07 MAR 23

Michael Costiff, John Foley, Pam Hogg and Princess Julia pay tribute to the pioneering fashion designer and activist

Alexander Provan pays tribute to the polymathic artist, critic, novelist and television presenter and his alter egos

BY Alexander Provan | 23 NOV 22

Stefan Kalmár shares his recollections of the artist in this personal ode to their friendship

BY Stefan Kalmár | 18 NOV 22

Will Fenstermaker looks back on the acclaimed critic’s life and career

BY Will Fenstermaker | 03 NOV 22

Agata Pyzik on the life and work of the fearless feminist artist

BY Agata Pyzik | 06 SEP 22

How collaboration and constant experimentation defined the late fashion designer’s remarkable career

BY Sophie Tolhurst | 15 AUG 22

Carlos Kong reflects on the late curator’s poetry of the public domain

BY Carlos Kong | 04 AUG 22

Randy Kennedy recalls meeting the seminal pop artist and how his outsize sculptures injected wit and whimsy into the everyday

BY Randy Kennedy | 28 JUL 22

The late artist and writer radically reconceived the relationship between art, artist and audience.

BY Asad Raza | 25 FEB 22

Nick Earhart remembers his former professor and acclaimed experimental composer, Alvin Lucier

BY Nick Earhart | 06 DEC 21

The Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries on the brilliance and generosity of the late French artist

BY Hans Ulrich Obrist | 22 JUL 21

Shon Faye pays tribute to the pioneering musician and producer whose generation-defining music will live on in the exultations of the dance floor 

BY Shon Faye | 04 FEB 21

The musician remembers coming out in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War and the recent death of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi

BY Hamed Sinno | 26 JUN 20

Bradford Nordeen remembers the late American filmmaker’s carnality, decay, hurt, humour and so much excruciating beauty

BY Bradford Nordeen | 19 JUN 20

The late playwright and novelist galvanized the fight against HIV/AIDS

BY Avram Finkelstein | 02 JUN 20