Obituary

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

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’

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

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

Paying tribute to the legendary designer and his passion for books

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

Moving between figuration and abstraction, the New York-based painter and teacher made work about in-between spaces and from between cultures

From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities

Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from the inside out

A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid