Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

He never ceased his restless formal innovations.

Visionary inventor infamous for her on-screen nudity.

She radiated menace, steel and megawatt charisma.

His poetry still seems experimental and forward-thinking today.

“An indescribable gamut of colors!” said the first cosmonaut.

He took down Rick Santorum and started the It Gets Better project.

He wanted to destroy “the whole — how would you explain it — that exists.”

A lethally and incessantly clever futurist.

Fashion plate, poet, proto-punk and feminist performance artist.

His minimalist compo­sitions are haunted by his counter­tenor voice

Backwards, in high heels, and brilliant

He invented a funny avatar of passive resistance.

He presaged barbarity by pointing out abuses to the German language.

Her dramatic potential was revealed in literary adaptations.

It’s always “Posh and Becks,” rarely “Becks and Posh.”

They were so insep­arable they practically fused into each other.

Unknown until word of his devotion to conjunto spread.

He pioneered DIY data production, and transformed Anthropology.

He showed us a bum trip that was perfectly in sync with the era.

Translating passion for animals into passionate advocacy.

An inspired, slurry vocalist of darkness and wit.

The archetypal brand of the iconic mass-culture chanteuse.