In memoriam, February 2017

John Berger, the British Marxist art critic and the author of the influential book and television series, Ways of Seeing, died on 2 January, aged 90. After stints at the Chelsea and Central Schools of Art, Berger began his career as a painter and exhibited his works in several London galleries. In 1972, the BBC broadcast his TV series, Ways of Seeing, that established him in the public eye as an art critic. He went on to write novels, sociological investigations and film scripts, as well as art-