Obituary

Looking back on the pioneering artist, curator and media theorist’s life and career

Michael Costiff, John Foley, Pam Hogg and Princess Julia pay tribute to the pioneering fashion designer and activist

Alexander Provan pays tribute to the polymathic artist, critic, novelist and television presenter and his alter egos

Stefan Kalmár shares his recollections of the artist in this personal ode to their friendship

Will Fenstermaker looks back on the acclaimed critic’s life and career

Agata Pyzik on the life and work of the fearless feminist artist

How collaboration and constant experimentation defined the late fashion designer’s remarkable career

Carlos Kong reflects on the late curator’s poetry of the public domain

Randy Kennedy recalls meeting the seminal pop artist and how his outsize sculptures injected wit and whimsy into the everyday

The late artist and writer radically reconceived the relationship between art, artist and audience.

Nick Earhart remembers his former professor and acclaimed experimental composer, Alvin Lucier

The Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries on the brilliance and generosity of the late French artist

Shon Faye pays tribute to the pioneering musician and producer whose generation-defining music will live on in the exultations of the dance floor 

The musician remembers coming out in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War and the recent death of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi

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