Douglas Crimp in 2001. Catherine Opie/Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Mr. Crimp approached art with a kind of personal investment. “His work came directly out of his life: what he loved doing, what he worried about,” Darby English, an art history professor at the University of Chicago and a former student of Mr. Crimp’s, said in a phone interview. “Living was working, and life was good as long as he could work.””