There were times in 2024 when it felt as though an entire chapter of art history was being lost. Crack open a modern art textbook, and note how many figures from the section on Minimalism died this year alone: Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Richard Serra. Stella and Serra’s deaths, plus those of artists working at the same time like Faith Ringgold and Jackie Winsor, recently moved critic Barry Schwabsky to ask if an entire New York scene had died this year as well.
It wasn’t just artists in New York who died this year, of course. Giants of other countries also passed: the German sculptor Rebecca Horn, the Austrian performance artist Günter Brus, the Saudi Arabian painter Safeya Binzagr, the Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe.
And it wasn’t just artists, either. Dealers Barbara Gladstone and Pierre Levai died this year, along with collectors Rosa de la Cruz and Leonard Riggio, curator Kasper König, and art historian David Anfam.
Below, a look back at some of the most notable art-world figures who died in 2024.
The post “In Memoriam 2024: Notable Artists, Dealers, and Collectors Who Died This Year” by Alex Greenberger was published on 12/31/2024 by www.artnews.com