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.
Kim Hyeon-ee† 2026 · Action actor and stuntwomanShe ran alongside them, and they will not forget her.
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Henry Herford1947 – 2026 · Scottish operatic and concert baritoneScottish baritone of warm tone who explored seventy-plus opera roles and rare song.
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Akiko Hayashi1945 – 2026 · Picture-book author and illustratorTokyo-born illustrator of Miki's First Errand, Kon and Aki, and the first Kiki's Delivery Service novel.
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Lőrinc Csernyus1961 – 2026 · Hungarian architectHungarian organic architect who carried Makovecz forward from Csenger to Dubai.
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Scott Adams1957 – 2026 · CartoonistCreator of Dilbert, who turned cubicle life into shared laughter for millions.
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Rajaa Mohammed1962 – 2026 · Actress and singerKuwaiti actress and singer whose voice and roles delighted a generation of Gulf children.
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Lyudmila Marts1935 – 2026 · Art historian and curatorShe knew Russian sculpture and its sculptors by heart, and gave the Tretyakov its modern collection.
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Saeeda Kamal1952 – 2026 · PainterPainter and freedom fighter who nursed the wounded of 1971 and carried the first letter of Swadhinata.
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Yvette Bíró1930 – 2026 · Film theorist and screenwriterHungarian film scholar and screenwriter who taught the language of cinema in Budapest and New York.
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Franz Xaver Ölzant† 2026 · SculptorAustrian sculptor who shaped the boulders of the Waldviertel into lasting works of art.
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Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo1932 – 2026 · Poet and lawyerLoja-born poet of Guayaquil and Premio Eugenio Espejo laureate.
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Francisco Garfias1951 – 2026 · Journalist and political columnistHe went out every day to find the story of Mexican politics himself.
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Talib Mangal† 2026 · Poet and journalistPashto poet and journalist from Khost, an inventive voice of his generation.
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Brice Tarvel1946 – 2026 · Novelist and comic book scriptwriterA storyteller of shadows and adventure who kept the heroes of his boyhood alive.
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Giovanni Lista1943 – 2026 · Art historian and art criticItalian art historian who remapped Futurism for France and Europe.
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Denys Tremblay1951 – 2026 · ArtistThe artist-king of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, who proved by referendum that art can reign in real life.
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Kamil Pulec1963 – 2026 · actorSlovácké divadlo mainstay remembered for Lenny, Samko, Othello and Četnické humoresky.
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Maxín Picallo1940 – 2026 · SculptorGalician figurative sculptor, student of Asorey, who carved sailors, canteiros, and the Baiona Encounter into stone.
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DJ Martin D (Martin Oliver Solis Dipasupil)1970 – 2026 · Radio disc jockey and broadcasterMOR 101.9 voice who spent nearly thirty years making Filipino listeners smile.
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George Liu (K. L. "George" Liu)† 2026 · newspaper manager and photographerSteady hand behind Seattle's Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly.
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Carmen Aldunate1940 – 2026 · PainterChilean painter who gave women of paint a lasting psychological voice.
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Yehuda Atlas1937 – 2026 · PoetThe poet who gave Israeli children a voice for their small, ordinary worries.
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Mohammed Benchicou1952 – 2026 · JournalistFounder of Le Matin and a stubborn voice for Algeria's independent press.
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Richard S. Reisberg1941 – 2026 · Television executiveTelevision executive and mediator who loved finding common ground.
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James Becket1936 – 2026 · WriterAmerican filmmaker and lawyer who helped expose Greek junta torture and told refugee and ecology stories on screen.
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Joshua Cassara† 2026 · Comic book artist (Marvel StormbreakerMarvel Stormbreaker whose X-Force and Deadpool/Wolverine pages defined Krakoa.
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Eugenio Zanetti1946 – 2026 · Production designerOscar-winning eye for Restoration; Cordoba painter who made fantasy architectural.
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Ria Yamada2009 – 2026 · dancerA dancer who loved dance more than anything, remembered for her talent and her smile.
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Jean Orizet1937 – 2026 · poetFrench poet and Cherche midi co-founder who mapped travel, painting and entretemps.
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Andy Fish1965 – 2026 · Graphic novelistWorcester comics teacher and Blackwood artist who made pages, classrooms and kindness his craft.
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Ruth Weisberg1956 – 2026 · Radio and television hostThe voice on the phone and the radio, for nearly fifty years.
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Pam Underwood1931 – 2026 · Amateur theatre performer and administratorFounder of the Apollo Theatre, Newport, and a beloved fixture of Isle of Wight amateur theatre.
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Kenneth Treister1930 – 2026 · American architectArchitect and sculptor of Miami Beach's Holocaust Memorial; FAIA and artist of Coconut Grove.
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Alex Mukulu† 2026 · PlaywrightUganda's playwright of 30 Years of Bananas, who put the nation's history on stage.
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Bou Meng1941 – 2026 · Cambodian artistArtist who survived S-21 by painting Pol Pot and spent decades bearing witness at Tuol Sleng.
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Jack Crabtree† 2026 · PainterPainter who gave dignity to miners, steelworkers and lives that often went unnoticed.
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Sami Mohammad1943 – 2026 · Sculptor and painterA sculptor who gave bronze and stone a voice for human suffering and the longing to be free.
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David George Gordon1950 – 2026 · NaturalistThe Bug Chef who put crickets and tarantulas on the Western menu.
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Simone Forti1935 – 2026 · Postmodern dancerPostmodern dance pioneer whose Dance Constructions remade what bodies and objects could do together.
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Lorcan O'Herlihy1959 – 2026 · ArchitectIrish-born LA architect who treated housing as civic design and urban care.
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Mr. Whitekeys1947 – 2026 · MusicianAlaska's irreverent showman of Spam, satire and the Whale Fat Follies.
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Saeeda Kamal (Tulu)† 2026 · Artist and freedom fighterPoet's daughter who nursed the wounded of 1971 and gave her life to art.
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Tomasz Fogiel1953 – 2026 · ActorGdynia's Pan Tomek, who sang and played on its musical stage for more than forty years.
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Luigi Malice1937 – 2026 · PainterNeapolitan Informal painter who brought Mediterranean colour and shaped canvas into Calabrian contemporary art.
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Nikolaus Gerhart1944 – 2026 · SculptorMunich sculptor who opened up stone to show its inner life, and led the city's art academy.
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Juarez Machado1941 – 2026 · PainterJoinville's multiartist who drew with his whole body and painted joy. Only art is eternal.
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Fusako Yusaki1937 – 2026 · AnimatorShe shaped plasticine into endless worlds and taught generations of children that everything can be transformed with joy.
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Alisa Aksyonova1931 – 2026 · Soviet and Russian museum directorMuseum director who turned Vladimir-Suzdal into a world heritage museum empire and became a Hero of Labour.
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