His 50-year career was filled with transgressive performances, including the Times Square Crawls, which interrogated race and class

The artists Vivan Sundaram and Françoise Gilot, collectors Harald Falckenberg and Barry Humphries plus curator Vincent Honoré were also lost to the art world this year

The artist, known for his Crawl series, treated 'absurdity of racism in an unflinching way’

As his South London Gallery show opens, the self-proclaimed “friendliest Black artist in America” explains why creating new versions of his work is so important

The Los Angeles gallery owner explains why she encourages her artists to have galleries in Europe and New York too, and how collaboration is key

The project was both silly and unsettling, completely theatrical and real

The artist is staging a massive inclusive crawl in New York this September