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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

BY Kira Thurman |

Designers Experimental Jetset, Kellenberger–White, Fraser Muggeridge and historian Emily King on the enduring influence of the Dutch design legend

A tribute to the photographer, from the ‘sucker punch’ of The Americans (1958), to his later work ‘howling with anguish, frustration and ennui’

BY Chris Wiley |

The Swiss photographer, who died this week, is remembered for his candid pictures of ordinary people

For the artist, critic and teacher, who died last week at the age of 67, every ordinary thing held meaning in disguise

BY Jörg Heiser |

 ‘We have lost one of the best and greatest of us,’ Keene writes. ‘She helped us to see and become ourselves, to put pen to paper and language to our lives.’

BY John Keene |

The only woman affiliated with the Arte Povera movement resisted machines, definitions and permanence

BY Hans Ulrich Obrist |

The late art historian and activist inspired generations of young artists and writers to better teach themselves 

BY Thomas J. Lax |

The artist, curator, educator and writer, who died on 30 June, was committed to supporting South Africa’s younger artists

BY Sean O'Toole |

Gilda Williams pays tribute to the American painter, ‘an artist exalting in unruly triumph’

BY Gilda Williams |

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

BY Andrew Durbin |

The artist is remembered for her sinister interpretations of pop culture

BY Frieze News Desk |

The artist who participated in various scenes from Abstract Expressionism to the Black Arts movement has passed away

BY Frieze News Desk |

The poet Kevin Killian remembers the artist’s ‘knowing, malicious but ultimately magical gaze’

BY Kevin Killian |

Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema

BY Sierra Pettengill |

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 |