Obituary

More artists killed in Ukraine as anniversary of full-scale Russian invasion approaches

Artists Lana Chornohorska and Yurii Kostyshyn and philosophy student Timofey Anufriev have all died in recent weeks

Kathleen Goncharov, influential curator who helped many artists ‘realise their dreams’, has died aged 73

Alongside her work at organisations such as New York’s Just Above Midtown gallery and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, Goncharov was also an artist

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Remembering Erik Bulatov, the Soviet artist who reframed propaganda

The pioneering painter was known for his luminous skies and loaded slogans on power, space and freedom

Ceal Floyer, an artist known for her minimalist, playful works, dies aged 57

The Pakistan-born, British artist rose to fame in the 1990s with her “concise humour and profoundly understated visual language”

The art world pays tribute to Martin Parr, an ‘extraordinary photographer of people and life in the UK’

Tributes online have come from artists including Grayson Perry and the Pet Shop Boys

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Remembering John Morgan, radical typographer and designer who transformed the Church of England's books

From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture

Remembering Sylvio Perlstein, the Belgian art collector and jeweller, who died aged 94

Perlstein—whose family fled from Antwerp to Brazil to escape the Nazis—was a great collector of avant-garde art and was friends with some of its leading figures

Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98

Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire

Giorgio Armani, designer who changed how museums engage with fashion, has died aged 91

As well as for his iconic designs, Armani will be remembered for his broad cultural legacy

Sylvain Amic, ‘open spirited’ head of Musée d'Orsay, has died aged 58

His death was announced on Sunday by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati

Ukrainian ‘artist of pain’ David Chichkan killed on frontline

Known for his anarchist ideals, Chichkan is the latest in a string of Ukrainian cultural workers killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion