ALBERT MAYSLES (1926–2015)

The New York Times’s Anita Gates reports that the filmmaker Albert Maysles died at age eighty-eight Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. His brother David, with whom he made such significant works as Grey Gardens (1976) and Gimme Shelter (1970), passed away in 1987. Maysles also made a number of films about visual artists, including a 1965 documentation of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece at Carnegie Hall and a series of films on Christo and Jean-Claude. A pioneer of Direct Cinema, last year Albert Maysles was the recipient of a National Medal of Arts.