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In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.

Erik Bulatov (1933–2025)Pillar of Russia’s contemporary art scene

He was a leading figure of the Soviet pop art scene, founding the Moscow Conceptualists, which opposed official government art, as well as the Sots art movement, which remixed Soviet slogans. In 2015, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. “I have been working on connecting the space of the painting with the space of our life,” he said in a 2017 interview.

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Eileen Harris (1932–2025)American-British architectural historian and museum consultant

The scholar and writer was an expert on neoclassical architect and designer Robert Adam.