Arts
Painters, sculptors, dancers and designers whose work outlives them. 253 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Heather Roberge1971 – 2026 · ArchitectArchitect and UCLA educator who made digital craft a classroom and a practice.
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Anton Kurnia1974 – 2026 · WriterBandung writer and translator who put the world on Indonesian shelves.
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Jodie Allen† 2026 · JournalistWashington Post Outlook editor who made policy numbers readable.
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Pierre Collin1956 – 2026 · PainterPainter and engraver elected to the Academie des beaux-arts in 2018.
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Billy Teare1951 – 2026 · StorytellerAntrim storyteller who carried folklore, craic and calendar tricks to the world.
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Bhishma Rajyaguru† 2026 · International studentA beacon of light: student, son, and percussionist remembered with love.
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Christopher Ciccone1960 – 2024 · Visual artistArtist, designer, and Madonna's brother who shaped tours, homes, and his own canvas.
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Antonio Grimau1944 – 2026 · ActorArgentine actor, telenovela heart-throb and villain, who gave Sandro a voice in his later years.
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Magda Vámos1932 – 2026 · Fashion designerHungary's grande dame of fashion, who dressed generations with elegance and taught them style.
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Eduardo Viana1955 – 2026 · ActorLisbon actor and opera singer who was a familiar face in Portuguese homes for over thirty years.
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Yadi Timo1960 – 2026 · Film and television actorIndonesian actor remembered as Mastur, the kidnapper in Petualangan Sherina.
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Jeremiah Kipp† 2026 · Film director and screenwriterGentle New York horror filmmaker behind Slapface and The Mortuary Assistant.
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Peter Nagy† 2026 · Artist and galleristEast Village artist who became a champion of Indian contemporary art.
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Ina Klaassen1969 – 2026 · Museum directorRotterdam museum director who steered Boijmans Van Beuningen through its Depot and renewal.
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Donald Insall1926 – 2026 · ArchitectConservation architect who taught Britain to keep old places living.
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Gernot Friedel1941 – 2026 · TheatreDirected Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival for eighteen summers, from Brandauer to Tukur.
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Indra Briķe1957 – 2026 · Stage and film actressKroders' muse at Liepāja and a towering presence on the Dailes stage for three decades.
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Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche1926 – 2026 · Harpist and harp teacherA harpist who carried Marcel Tournier's French school across a century of concerts and classrooms.
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Devon Dikeou1963 – 2026 · Conceptual artistArtist, publisher and collector who lived in the in-between and shared it with everyone.
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Karel Zelenko1925 – 2026 · Graphic artistA Ljubljana School graphic master who kept drawing the human comedy into his hundredth year.
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Rafael Ferrer1933 – 2026 · ArtistA restless artist who treated every medium like improvisation.
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Roberto Müller1937 – 2026 · SingerBrazilian romantic singer known as Pingo de Ouro, with decades of boleros and ballads.
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Kim Woo-young† 2026 · CartoonistCartoonist whose strip Ddungddanji made Korean children laugh for three decades.
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Carlos Alonso1929 – 2026 · PainterHe painted Argentina's wounds so they would not be forgotten.
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Hadi Abbas† 2026 · SculptorBaghdad sculptor who stayed with clay, stone and paint for a lifetime.
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Bodil Cappelen1930 – 2026 · PainterTextile artist and guardian of Hauge's poetic legacy.
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Jim Frecklington1949 – 2026 · Royal coachmakerAustralian royal coachmaker who built state coaches for Elizabeth II and Charles III
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Michel Albertini1953 – 2026 · ActorMarseille-born actor of Nelly and Mr. Arnaud and Mafiosa, and a lifelong man of the stage.
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Antony Donaldson1939 – 2026 · painter and sculptorBritish Pop Art painter and sculptor of cars, figures and the Hitchcock Gainsborough head.
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Kitty Lunn1950 – 2026 · Ballet dancerShe taught dancers to dance in the body they have, and made ballet larger for everyone.
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Vivienne Binns1940 – 2026 · PainterAustralian feminist art pioneer of Vag Dens, community practice and Pacific patterning
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Milan Knížák1940 – 2026 · Czech Fluxus performance artistFluxus East pioneer, Broken Music inventor, Aktual founder, and restless steward of Czech art after 1989.
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Anne Madden le Brocquy1932 – 2025 · PainterIrish painter who found the bones of the Burren and turned grief into light.
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Amel Baccouche1949 – 2026 · ActressTunisian actress who made Jannet of Choufli Hal a household name.
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Hilkka Kinnunen1925 – 2026 · Finnish sopranoPrima donna of Finnish operetta, who founded the Operettiteatteri and led it for over thirty years.
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Olha Osiik1947 – 2026 · Stage actressUkrainian actress who gave more than fifty years and over 100 roles to the stage of the Volyn theatre in Lutsk.
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Jonas "Heavy" Stentäpp1975 – 2026 · MusicianHjalle och Heavy's Heavy: punk drummer, reporter and folkrace voice who made Sweden smile.
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Gerold Späth1939 – 2026 · WriterThe Rapperswil storyteller who filled Swiss literature with baroque comedy and melancholy.
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Giorgio Bracardi1933 – 2026 · Comic actor and musicianThe voice of Scarpantibus, who taught Italy to laugh at things that never existed.
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Juan Pablo Cárdenas1949 – 2026 · JournalistHe kept a free press alive in Chile when it cost him his liberty.
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Manuel Pereira1948 – 2026 · Novelist and essayistHavana-born novelist who carried Old Havana into exile and wrote it back to life.
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Stephen Jones1951 – 2026 · Video artistHe built the machines that made Australian video art sing, then wrote its history.
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Adam Lenson1985 – 2026 · Theatre directorDirector and champion of new musical theatre; founder of SIGNAL.
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Lee Sil-hong† 2026 · Television producer and screenwriterHong Kong producer whose Rediffusion dramas, from Chameleon to Fatherland, made television history.
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Nikolay Tevetkel1937 – 2026 · PoetPeople's Poet of Chuvashia who gave Shakespeare's sonnets to the Chuvash language.
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Roshan Kumari† 2026 · Kathak dancerJaipur gharana Kathak legend whose dance in Jalsaghar still dazzles. She danced for her father's rhythm.
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Hugh Wooldridge1952 – 2026 · Theatre directorHe filled the Royal Albert Hall with a thousand voices, and raised the curtain for countless others.
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