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A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack for the civil rights movement. Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose stirring […]

In shows she organized, and in her writing, she highlighted women and Black artists at a time when they were seldom drawing mainstream attention. April Kingsley, who as a curator [...]

She handled the sales of the great caricaturist's works and told stories of flying Diane Arbus in her plane and encountering the woman who shot Andy Warhol. The scene on [...]

Mr. Moore, who was of African American and Native American descent, was committed to preserving the past as a curator, author and savior of city landmarks. In June 1991, Christopher [...]

As a curator at MoMA and then a professor at Princeton, he pushed museums and art historians to take photography seriously. Peter C. Bunnell, who over a 35-year career at [...]

The youngest daughter of an influential family of industrialists, she trained with Frank Lloyd Wright before returning to India and founding design institutions. Gira Sarabhai, an architect, designer, curator and [...]

He was the chief architectural curator at MoMA, overseeing shows and the museum's massive redesign, then moving on to the Miami art world. Terence Riley, who as an architectural curator [...]

His ''Harlem on My Mind'' exhibit at the Met museum in 1969 drew protests for not including works by Black artists. But since then it's been reconsidered. Allon Schoener, the [...]

His ''Harlem on My Mind'' exhibit at the Met museum in 1969 drew protests for not including works by Black artists. But since then it's been reconsidered. Allon Schoener, the [...]

Byline: TOM HAWTHORN, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Lefty Reid was a hockey pack rat who stockpiled pucks, pads, sticks, sweaters, masks and medals. He gathered gloves, collected [...]

He celebrated the neighborhood's artists, including Alice Neel and James de la Vega. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read [...]

He identified the ''poor art'' avant-garde movement and was an internationally renowned curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fondazione Prada in Milan. This obituary is part [...]

Byline: Bart Barnes This story is part of 'Faces of the dead,' an ongoing series exploring the lives of Americans who have died from the novel coronavirus. David C. Driskell, [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Ralph Whittington worked at the Library of Congress for 36 years, rising from an entry-level clerk to become a curator in the main reading room of the [...]

On any given day, you can walk into the dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and request to see the ballet slippers of the [...]

Okwui Enwezor, an influential Nigerian curator whose large-scale exhibitions displaced European and American art from its central position as he forged a new approach to art for a global age, [...]

Robert Rainwater, a curator and art historian who oversaw an expansion of the New York Public Library's holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the [...]

Born June 6, 1975, in Montreal; died May 23, 2018, in London, England, of breast cancer; aged 42. Deirdre Murphy lived her life on both sides of the Atlantic. Born [...]

Nancy Blomberg, who as a curator at the Denver Art Museum treated American Indian artworks as aesthetic creations, not artifacts, and championed the artists who made them, died on Sept. [...]

Frederieke Taylor, a collector, curator and administrator who exhibited her eclectic taste in contemporary art and architecture at the gallery she co-founded in SoHo in 1993, died on Feb. 7 [...]

Frederieke Taylor, a collector, curator and administrator who exhibited her eclectic taste in contemporary art and architecture at the gallery she co-founded in Soho in 1993, died on Wednesday in [...]

Lorraine Waxman Pearce, a decorative arts scholar who, as the first White House curator, helped Jacqueline Kennedy restore the presidential mansion to its 19th-century historic splendor, died on March 14 [...]

Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Kenneth Young, Smithsonian Institution exhibit designer Kenneth Young, 83, one of the first black Smithsonian Institution exhibit designers and a [...]

Joan Duddy, an influential curator and advocate for new dance as the founder and director of the dance program at the Dia Center for the Arts (now Joyce SoHo) in [...]

Brookie Maxwell, a painter, sculptor and curator who immersed herself in social causes and viewed art as a spiritual haven for homeless children, died on Wednesday at her home in [...]

Walter Liedtke, who served for 35 years as a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a renowned scholar on Vermeer and the Delft School, [...]

Riva Castleman, an art historian and curator who built the world's pre-eminent collection of modern and contemporary prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on Sept. [...]

Mildred Friedman, a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the 1970s and '80s who helped both the museum and the contemporary design and architecture it celebrated become [...]

Mildred Friedman, a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the 1970s and '80s who helped both the museum and the contemporary design and architecture it celebrated become [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOver six decades, Sam Hunter could usually be found at the center of some of the most exciting times for art in New York and beyond. He was an […]