Death

Sculptor Radcliffe Bailey, known for promoting Black history through his art, died on Tuesday in Alabama. His death was confirmed by his brother. Bailey had been battling brain cancer for many years. He was 55 years old. Radcliffe…

Claude Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso and longtime administrator of his estate, died on Thursday at the age of 76. Claude Picasso was one of the four children of Picasso and his last surviving son. Notably, he died mere months after his…

Russian artist Ilya Kabakov, who always criticized the Soviet way of thinking through his raw and creative installations, died at the age of 89 on Saturday. His family confirmed his death on social media the same day. Ilya Kabakov made a…

Artist Vivan Sundaram, best known for pioneering installation art in India in the 90s, died at age 79 on Thursday. Born in 1943 in Shimla, Vivan Sundaram came from a family of intellectuals. His father was a chairman of the Law…

Update: A previous version of this article mistakenly attributed the cause of death as 'natural'. We apologize for this grievous error. Thomas H Lee, businessman and art collector, died due to suicide at the age of 78 on Thursday. His…

Mark Pereira, the art dealer beloved in Trinidad & Tobago, was killed at his home on Monday during a robbery attempt. The tragic event occurred on the evening of December 19 at Pereira’s vacation beach house in Blanchissuese,…

American painter Philip Pearlstein, known for bringing realism to nude portraits in the 60s, died at age 98. He died at a New York hospital on Saturday due to natural causes. His death was confirmed by Betty Cuningham, the gallery which…

Ashley Bickerton, the artist who lampooned consumerism and was a hot topic in the New York art scene in the 1980s, died at the age of 63. Ashley Bickerton died on Wednesday at his home in Bali, Indonesia, where he had lived since the…

Peter Schjeldahl, the legendary art critic at the New Yorker known for his elegant prose, has died at the age of 80. His death was confirmed by the New Yorker in a tweet on late Friday. For many years, Schjeldahl had been battling lung…

Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the Acropolis Museum in Greece, was announced dead at the age of 82 on Wednesday. The Culture Ministry of Greece issued a statement, announcing his death. Lina Medoni (Culture Minister, Greece) wrote:…