By: Peggy Nelson

He turned the map into the territory.

By: Lynn Peril

“Please don’t make me decide between you and a bottle of beer.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

He made us wonder whether we’ll ever figure anything out.

By: Robert Wringham

His anti-hero was a portly, dissolute art dealer.

By: Tucker Cummings

She planted a seed of doubt about the price of progress

By: William Nericcio

She wielded mad intellectual superpowers.

By: Suzanne Fischer

She rationalized factories and kitchens.

By: Brian Berger

The irrepress­ible embod­iment of America’s racial ambi­guities

By: Joshua Glenn

One of the era’s truly great high-lowbrow high-wire artists.

By: Brian Berger

He made paradoxic human music of despair.

By: Adam McGovern

She’s the perfect package.

By: Peggy Nelson

There is a buoyancy to Ai that lends his work weight.

By: Tucker Cummings

His minimalist compo­sitions are haunted by his counter­tenor voice

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote superman novels, and criticized humankind’s mediocrity.

By: Jerrold Freitag

She strolled in the no man’s land between seeing too much and innocence.