Obituary

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

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

From his dreams of Glasgow to nocturnal self-portraits, there was an edge to the writer and artist: a deep well of strangeness

‘I saw how the different pop artists were working, and how they allowed new ideas to arise. So, I said to myself: Why don’t poets do that?’

The singer committed her life to defying a classical music industry that was not only deeply critical of women’s bodies, but also sceptical of black talent

Finding solace in the joy and eroticism of the late Lebanese artist’s work

Designers Experimental Jetset, Kellenberger–White, Fraser Muggeridge and historian Emily King on the enduring influence of the Dutch design legend

A tribute to the photographer, from the ‘sucker punch’ of ‘The Americans’ (1958), to his later work ‘howling with anguish, frustration and ennui’

The Swiss photographer, who died this week, is remembered for his candid pictures of ordinary people

For the artist, critic and teacher, who died last week at the age of 67, every ordinary thing held meaning in disguise

 ‘We have lost one of the best and greatest of us,’ Keene writes. ‘She helped us to see and become ourselves, to put pen to paper and language to our lives.’

The only woman affiliated with the Arte Povera movement resisted machines, definitions and permanence

The late art historian and activist inspired generations of young artists and writers to better teach themselves 

The artist, curator, educator and writer, who died on 30 June, was committed to supporting South Africa’s younger artists

Gilda Williams pays tribute to the American painter, ‘an artist exalting in unruly triumph’

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

The artist is remembered for her sinister interpretations of pop culture

The artist who participated in various scenes from Abstract Expressionism to the Black Arts movement has passed away

The poet Kevin Killian remembers the artist’s ‘knowing, malicious but ultimately magical gaze’

Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema