> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Remembering Ceal Floyer, Michele Singer Reiner, and Christine Choy - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-ceal-floyer-michele-singer-reiner-and-christine-choy/ - Published: 2025-12-17T22:30:32.000Z - Updated: 2025-12-17T22:30:32.000Z - Description: This week, we honor a conceptualist who made the ordinary human, a wide-ranging photographer, and a filmmaker who made space for others. - Author: Lisa Yin Zhang - Tags: In Memoriam, Community [*In Memoriam*](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/in-memoriam/) *is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.* --- **Ceal Floyer** (1968–2025) *British conceptual artist who made the quotidian human* She [transformed](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/ceal-floyer-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) ready-made objects, such as an umbrella, into heartrendingly human objects tinged with absurdist humor. "In addition to the acceptance of trying and falling short," Devon Van Houten Maldonado wrote in a [review of her work for *Hyperallergic*](https://hyperallergic.com/a-show-that-embraces-failure/), "Floyer’s work asks: What are we trying to get right? How do we know what’s right? --- **Arthur L. Carter** (1931–2025) *Sculptor and Renaissance man* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-118.png) Arthur L. Carter (photo via [Wikimedia Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arhur%5FL.%5FCarter.jpg?ref=hyperallergic.com)) His metallic freestanding sculptures have been [featured](https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/arthur-county-litchfield-county-times-dies-at-93-21234556.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Connecticut museums like the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford and the New Britain Museum of American Art. One of his works was also installed outside of a library at New York University. --- **Christine Choy** (1952–2025) *Filmmaker, journalist, and activist* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-117.png) Portrait of Christine Choy (1986) (photo by Deborah Thomas, via [Wikimedia Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christine%5FChoy.jpg?ref=hyperallergic.com)) She was best-known for [co-directing](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/movies/christine-choy-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the 1988 documentary *Who Killed Vincent Chin?* She also co-founded Third World Newsreel, dedicated to people of color and social justice, and Asian CineVision, an exhibition space and incubator for Asian and Asian-American filmmakers. --- **Roberta Fallon** (1949–2025) *Artist, writer, and Artblog cofounder* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-116.png) Roberta Fallon in 2013 (photo via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151973033251858&set=a.468105601857)) She [chronicled](https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/roberta-fallon-obituary-philadelphia-art-artblog-bala-cynwyd-20251216.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the art world of Philadelphia through stories, interviews, reviews, podcasts, videos, and more. She championed women, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented artists. --- **Aaron Goldblatt** (1955–2025) *Museum planner, exhibition designer, and sculptor* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/aaron-goldblatt.jpg) Aaron Goldblatt (photo @susan.hagen via [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DSB5DwWjOS2/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)) He and his business partner Alan Metcalfe [specialized](https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/aaron-goldblatt-obituary-museum-planner-exhibits-philadelphia-20251212.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in glass floors, canopy walks, abstract playgrounds, and more at institutions such as Museum of the American Revolution and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He created environments that encouraged play and what he referred to as "informal learning." --- **David Heathcote** (1931–2025) *British artist, art historian, and teacher* He [taught](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/17/david-heathcote-obituary?ref=hyperallergic.com) art history at universities in Kent and Canterbury, England, and Zaria, Nigeria, where he studied Hausa craft workers, amassing a collection of clothing, leather work, and crafts now housed at the British Museum. He made surreal assemblages in bronze and stone, as well as drawings and collages, exhibiting in London, Paris, and various cities in Nigeria. --- **Michele Singer Reiner** (1957–2025) *Photographer and filmmaker* She [worked](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-12-15/michele-singer-reiner-photographer-producer-dead-at-70?ref=hyperallergic.com) as a photographer for video games and films, and captured Donald Trump for *The Art of the Deal* (1987) before becoming a vocal critic of him. She was also a political activist for LGBTQ+ rights, early childhood development programs, and more. --- **Jeanette Winter** (1939–2025) *Author of picture books about artists* She [wrote and illustrated](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/obituaries/jeanette-winter-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) more than 65 children's books about artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Benny Goodman — and also stories like a baby hippopotamus separated from her mother and the building of the atomic bomb.