Guy Brett, Influential Curator and Critic Who Expanded Art History, Has Died at 78

Guy Brett, a curator and critic associated with London’s pioneering Signals gallery of the 1960s, has died at 78. Kurimanzutto gallery, which in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery hosted an exhibition devoted to Signals in 2018, announced Brett’s passing on Instagram, but did not specify a cause of death.
Throughout his career, Brett widened art history’s Eurocentric purview to include figures from Latin America and Asia who had been overlooked by his colleagues. As critic