I am shocked to read of the death of David Anfam, a remarkable and wide-ranging curator of contemporary and late twentieth-century art.  He was one of the curators of the Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the RA in 2016, jointly with Edith Devaney, and he brought his deep scholarly knowledge and intellectual authority to the planning and catalogue of the exhibition.  He knew a lot of artists and cared about their work in a highly independent and visually acute way – a product, I suspect, of his training under John Golding.  I didn’t know that he had driven Volvos for a living, but it doesn’t wholly surprise me.  He is a great loss.

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