Obituary

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In further news: MoMA PS1 settles pregnancy discrimination case, Kochi-Muziris Biennale workers claim non-payment of fees 

BY Frieze News Desk |

The late pop maverick was influenced by sources as diverse as Jacques Brel, Swedish cinema and Sibelius

BY Dan Fox |

‘Wherever he is now, I know he is waiting for me. There is so much we did not have the time to address’

BY Simon Njami |

In style as well as substance, the late curator embodied a politics of inclusivity

BY Naomi Beckwith |

A tribute to the late curator and his belief in the primacy of documentation

BY Osei Bonsu |

A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’

BY Sean O'Toole |

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

BY Jörg Heiser |

‘To Carolee, drawing, like painting, was as visceral as breath,’ writes Emma McCormick-Goodhart

BY Emma McCormick-Goodhart |

Paying tribute to the legendary designer and his passion for books

BY Hans Ulrich Obrist |

A musician with a rare ability to write both great pop songs and deeply experimental and melancholy music

BY Juliet Jacques |

The iconic filmmaker’s influence was felt across the length and breadth of New York in the 1960s

Hiller’s discomfort towards dominant narratives made her look at all sorts of suppressed subjects, from outlaw cowgirls to protest songs

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

The director worked with prominent figures in New York’s avant garde, including Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

BY Frieze News Desk |

The artist’s sculpture possessed an almost surreal promise, as if at any moment it might become a Really Living Thing

BY Andrew Durbin |

‘Cinematic’ is often overused, but Roeg’s films showed how minds and memories wander back and forth in time, colouring our experience of the world

BY Dan Fox |

An homage to the architect who, with his partner Denise Scott Brown, developed the source code for postmodernism

BY Glenn Adamson |

Remembering the Romanian artist, who has died aged 92, for whom the studio was a continuous state of mind

BY Magda Radu |

McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed

BY McKenzie Wark |

From fleshy, distorted paintings, capturing the malaise of the 1960s, to colourful abstractions made in exile, the artist was an example to live by

BY Tiago Mesquita |

A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

BY Cody Delistraty |