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Byline: Penelope Green An artist and designer, she transformed simple craft paper into elaborate trompe l'oeil confections, creating stunning life-size reproductions of period garments. Isabelle de Borchgrave, a Belgian artist [...]

Byline: SHEENA FRASER McGOOGAN Born Feb. 7, 1947, in Montreal; died Aug. 4, 2024, in Kitchener, Ont., of mantle-cell cancer; aged 77. During the pandemic, when the world switched to [...]

An artist and designer, she transformed simple craft paper into elaborate trompe l'oeil confections, creating stunning life-size reproductions of period garments. Isabelle de Borchgrave, a Belgian artist and designer who [...]

James Magee, an enigmatic and idiosyncratic artist and poet who spent four decades building a starkly beautiful monument of stone and steel in the West Texas desert that may be [...]

CAROL MAY STRONG (née Black) Born on November 11, 1934, at 11 a.m. in Toronto, ON, Carol passed away on August 30, 2024, after a short hospital stay with family [...]

Starting in the early 1960s, he set himself apart from his contemporaries with paintings that critiqued the cultural dominance of the United States. Derek Boshier, who rose to prominence in [...]

Her widely exhibited work in sculpture, performance, film and more didn't represent anything in particular so much as it evoked an experience. Rebecca Horn, an artist who channeled theatrical flair, [...]

Byline: Victoria Summerley The artist Maggy Howarth, who has died aged 79, once said: 'I think I am the only pebble mosaic practitioner in the United Kingdom.' Her creative medium [...]

Byline: Sam Cornish Alan Gouk, who has died from cancer aged 84, was an ambitious abstract painter and an eloquent and passionate writer, committed to the continuing power of modernism. [...]

Byline: Vaughan Grylls My friend Nick James, who has died aged 75, set up a spoof art gallery in London in the early 1970s that invited the art world to [...]

He traced the dramatic transformation of the Lower East Side from his building, where he lived for 50 years. He also assisted the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. Anton van Dalen -- [...]

A Dutch painter, sculptor and engraver, she worked in experimental mediums, founded an influential multidisciplinary journal and enjoyed a late-career resurgence. Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch artist who was at [...]

His baroque fusions of bright paint, wood and other detritus wowed the art world. But as his fame faded, he turned his attention to historic preservation. Michael Tracy, a flamboyant [...]

Böttner, whose specialty was self-portraiture, celebrated her armless body in paintings she created with her mouth and feet while dancing in public. This article is part of Overlooked , a [...]

His Moon Knight was a hit in the 1970s, 30 years after he began his career. Bloodshot, another popular superhero, followed two decades later. Don Perlin, a veteran comic book [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Sam Butcher, an artist whose nostalgic depictions of children with tear-shaped eyes inspired Precious Moments, a line of porcelain figurines that at its peak ranked among the [...]

Byline: Charles Darwent In February 2015, a pair of enormous stars, one in polished aluminium and the other unvarnished teak, appeared in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in London. [...]

She pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, performed with her husband, the composer La Monte Young. In avant-garde New York, one of the [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Faith Ringgold, an artist, author and activist who charted a defiantly independent course through the American art world, protesting the exclusion of Black and female artists from [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Sheila Isham, an artist who explored color and culture in vibrant works that drew from her travels around the world and were exhibited at preeminent museums in [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at [...]

Byline: Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer who made his mark on the fashion world with distinctive, glamorous animal prints, has died at [...]

He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, laying a foundation for what was to come. Gylan Kain, a Harlem-born [...]

He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman costume, a work that blended satire and resistance. Pope.L, an uncompromising conceptual and performance [...]

An artist of many mediums, he used a vast array of materials, including stone, paint, piles of earth and even lettuce, to provoke thought and wonder. Giovanni Anselmo, one of [...]

Vera Molnar, a Hungarian-born artist who has been called the godmother of generative art for her pioneering digital work, which started with the hulking computers of the 1960s and evolved [...]

Over a 60-year career, he illustrated some 100 books of fairy tales, poetry and memoirs, and won three Caldecott Medals. Ed Young, whose illustrations in some 100 children's books, many [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Burkey Belser, a graphic designer who created the ubiquitous nutrition facts label -- a stark rectangle listing calories, fat, sodium and other content information -- that [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Burkey Belser, a graphic designer who created the ubiquitous nutrition facts label - a stark rectangle listing calories, fat, sodium and other content information - that [...]

With exquisite precision, he used costumes and sets in staging many of his pictures, letting his subjects, whatever their social status, express themselves. Erwin Olaf, a contemporary Dutch photographer known [...]

Alfredo Martinez lived on New York City's margins, a squatter who shook off one eviction after another. He was an artist who usually lacked a gallery and sometimes put on [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Ales Pushkin, a jailed artist and political dissident in Belarus who once dumped manure in front of the office of the country's authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, and [...]

Byline: David Whittaker My friend the painter Jane O'Malley, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a still life painter of rare skill. Utilising a spare repertoire of daily [...]

Byline: Melissa Twigg In 1937, seven-year-old Mary Quant attended a small dance class that would change the future of British fashion. Mary hated her outfit -- frumpy hand-me-downs from a [...]

Byline: Jenny Pery My friend Robert Organ, who has died aged 90, was a Realist painter whose work explored the world around him in all its beauty and oddity. His [...]

Byline: Grace Culley My father, Derek Culley, who has died aged 70, was an abstract artist who was mainly self taught and intuitive in his approach to painting. His art [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Ilya Kabakov, a Ukrainian-born conceptual artist renowned for his paintings and large-scale installations satirizing the absurdities of daily life in the Soviet Union under Communist rule, [...]

Byline: Willie Landels WILLIE LANDELS, who has died aged 94, became best known as the editor of the newly formed Harpers & Queen magazine from its foundation in 1970 to [...]