In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong

This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.

In Memoriam

Remembering Pearl Fryar, Siri Aurdal, and Frank Stack

This week, we honor a self-taught topiary artist, a mainstay of ’60s Scandinavian art, and author of what may be the first underground comic.

In Memoriam

Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso

This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.

In Memoriam

Remembering Glen Baxter, Pat Steir, Melvin Edwards

This week, we honor an absurdist cartoonist, a trailblazing feminist artist, and a sculptor who probed the history of violence in the US.

In Memoriam

Remembering Calvin Tomkins, Rhoda Roberts, and Agosto Machado

This week, we honor a celebrated art writer, a champion of First Nations culture, a downtown NYC performance artist and activist, and others.

In Memoriam

Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue

This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.

In Memoriam

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés

This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.

In Memoriam

Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten

This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.

In Memoriam

Remembering Dóra Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stämpfli

This week, we honor a Hungarian avant-garde artist, a Philadelphia mosaicist, a Swiss pop artist, and others.

In Memoriam

Remembering Henrike Naumann, LaMonte McLemore, and Frederick Wiseman

This week, we honor Germany’s representative at the Venice Biennale, a singer and photographer, and a documentarian of the lives of institutions.

In Memoriam

Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott

This week, we honor a devoted patron of the arts, the director of the Ashmolean, and a beloved children’s book illustrator.

In Memoriam

Remembering Richard Gorman, Seyni Awa Camara, and Björn Roth

This week, we honor an Irish colorist, a Senegalese sculptor, and the steward of a family art dynasty, as well as two Florida Highwaymen.