The year 2018 in art involves various significant events.

Events

February 16 Events Pre-1600 *1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. *1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. ...

- Edgar Degas's 1877 pastel '' Les Choristes'', stolen from the Musée Cantini in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fran ...

at the end of

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, is found in the luggage compartment of an intercity bus outside Paris during a search by customs officials. * April - The Terrus museum at

Elne Elne (; ca, Elna ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It lies in the former province of Roussillon, of which it was the first capital, being later replaced by Perpignan. Its inhabitants are still called '' ...

in the south of France, dedicated to paintings by

Étienne Terrus Étienne Joseph Mathieu Terrus (22 September 1857 in Elne, Pyrénées-Orientales – 22 June 1922 in Elne) was a French painter from Roussillon. When he was 17 years old, he went to Paris to study but soon after, he went back to Elne, where he p ...

, discovers that half its collection, 82 works, is counterfeit. * April 21 - The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in

Richmond, Virginia (Thus do we reach the stars) , image_map = , mapsize = 250 px , map_caption = Location within Virginia , pushpin_map = Virginia#USA , pushpin_label = Richmond , pushpin_m ...

Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in ...

opens to the public. * May - The Collection of Peggy Rockefeller and

David Rockefeller David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, ...

is auctioned off in three sales at

Christie's Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is owned by Groupe Artémis, t ...

Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commerce, commercial buildings covering between 48th Street (Manhattan), 48th Street and 51st Street (Manhattan), 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 14 original Art Deco ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...

. On the evening of May 8 the first night of the sale ''Young Girl with a Flower Basket'' (oil on canvas, 1905) by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is ...

is sold for $US115 million. along with world record prices for works by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

(''Nymphéas en fleur'' 1914-1917 $84.7 million) and

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...

(''Odalisque couchée aux magnolias'' 1923 $80.7 million), all contributing to a new world record for a single collection at auction of $832.6 million, the record previously having been held by the $484 million total achieved for the art collection of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent. *

May 25 Events Pre-1600 *567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. *1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...

- Second attack on

Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...

's painting ''

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan ''Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581'' is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Tsar of Russia Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich I ...

'' in the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, by an inebriated visitor. *

June 15 Events Pre-1600 * 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. * 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. * 923 – Battle of Soi ...

- Second major fire at

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...

. *July - A 1967 painting, "Untitled" by

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also inc ...

missing for more than forty years is returned after apparently having been stolen by a ring of art thieves. * August 13 - Despite warning signs, a man in his sixties is hospitalized after falling into a cavity created in a gallery floor at the Serralves Museum in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropo ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...

, for the 1992 Anish Kapoor work "Descent into Limbo" (titled after the 1492 painting by

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in ord ...

). * October 5 - A version of

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigram ...

's artwork ''

Balloon Girl ''Girl with Balloon'' (also, ''Balloon Girl'' or ''Girl and Balloon'') is a 2002-started London series of stencil murals by the graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a young girl with her hand extended toward a red heart-shaped balloon carried away ...

'' is auctioned at

Sotheby's Sotheby's () is a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, an ...

in London for £1,042,000. Moments after the closing bid, the artwork partially shreds itself by means of a

paper shredder A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut sheets of paper into either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive docum ...

hidden in the frame to become '' Love Is in the Bin''. *

November 14 Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 *1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. * 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile ...

- At a sale of the art collection of

Barney A. Ebsworth Barney A. Ebsworth (July 14, 1934 – April 9, 2018) was an American corporate executive and art collector. He was one of the initial investors in the Build-A-Bear Workshop and was a pioneer in the travel industry. Ebsworth died on April 9, 2018. ...

at Christie's New York,

Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realism, American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolor painting, watercolorist and printmaker in e ...

's ''

Chop Suey Chop suey () is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celer ...

'' (1929) sells for US$92m and

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter ...

's ''Woman as Landscape'' (1955) for US$68.9m. * November 15 - A canvas by

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

, ''

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) ''Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)'' is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972. It measures , and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure ...

'' (1972) sells at Christies in New York City for $90.3 million US dollars with fees, thus shattering the previous record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist ever sold at auction. The record price was previously held by a "Balloon Dog (orange)" sculpture by

Jeff Koons Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-Surface fi ...

for $58.4 million also at Christies in New York City in 2013. *

December 1 Events Pre-1600 * 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III. *1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France. ...

- The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume museum in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

is torched in politically related mob violence as the

Tuileries Gardens The Tuileries Garden (french: Jardin des Tuileries, ) is a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in ...

are stormed by protestors. *

December 7 Events Pre-1600 *43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius. * 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him ...

- In the United States of America, the

National Rifle Association of America The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent gun rights lobbying organization while cont ...

(NRA), the defendant in a lawsuit brought by artist

Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK ...

, settles with the plaintiff in the case. Therein the gun lobby group had without the sculptor's consent used a filmed image of his work in an approximately one minute long promotional video called "The Violence of Lies". Kapoor says of the victory which is inclusive of having the image of his work removed from the NRA's film that "They have now complied with our demand to remove the unauthorized image of my sculpture ''Cloud Gate'' from their abhorrent video, which seeks to promote fear, hostility, and division in American society.”

Exhibitions

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...

until

May 9 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria. * 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy. *1386 – England and Portugal formally ...

- " Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away" at the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

. *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the '' Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. * 1462 – T ...

until

May 27 Events Pre-1600 *1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. *1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...

- "Songs for Sabotage" The fourth

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...

Triennial An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. The word was first used for Catholic feasts to commemorate saint ...

curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Alex Gartenfeld at the New Museum in New York City. *

February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Ti ...

until

- " The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World" at the

Yale Center for British Art Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 ...

and then

June 23 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. *1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. *1280 – The Spanish Re ...

until

September 23 Events Pre-1600 * 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified. * 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat ...

at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Norwich, England. *

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cu ...

until

June 10 Events Pre-1600 * 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. *1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...

- "

Grant Wood Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 February 12, 1942) was an American painter and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for '' American Gothic'' (1930 ...

American Gothic ''American Gothic'' is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the ''American Gothic'' House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people efancied shoul ...

and Other Fables" at the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

. *

May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tan ...

until

September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. *1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. *1141 – Y ...

- "

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor ...

, Wynne Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. *

May 23 Events Pre-1600 *1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. *1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII ...

until

- " Canova's George Washington" at the

Frick Collection The Frick Collection is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection (normally at the Henry Clay Frick House, currently at the Frick Madison) features Old Master paintings and European fine and decorative arts, including works by ...

in New York City curated by Xavier Solomon and Mario Guderzo then traveled to the at the Museo Canova in

Possagno Possagno is a comune in the Province of Treviso, in the Italian region Veneto. It is located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Treviso. As of 31 August 2021, it had a population of 2,191 and an area of .All demographics and other ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

from November 10 to April 22, 2019. *

May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire tak ...

until January 1, 2019 - "

Bodys Isek Kingelez Bodys Isek Kingelez or Jean Baptiste (1948 – 14 March 2015) was a Congolese sculptor and artist known for his models of fantastic cities, made of cardboard, paper, tape and other commonplace materials. His work has been presented in numerous e ...

: City Dreams" at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, ...

in New York City. * June 6 -

September 12 Events Pre-1600 * 490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece. * 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Ji ...

- "

Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...

" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. * June 8 until

September 3 Events Pre-1600 * 36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. * 301 __NOTOC__ Year 301 (Ro ...

- "

Charles White Charles or Charlie White (or occasionally Whyte) may refer to: Artists and authors * Charles White (artist) (1918–1979), African-American painter, printmaker, muralist * Charles White (writer) (1845–1922), Australian journalist and author * C ...

: A Retrospective at the

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mil ...

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then traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from October 7 until January 13, 2019. *June 9 until

- "Women Artists in

, 1850 - 1900" at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. *September 6 until December 8 - "Neorealism (art), NeoRealismo: The New Image in

, 1932–1960" at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University in New York City. *September 17 until January 6, 2019 - "Eugène Delacroix, Delacroix" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. *September 22 until January 2, 2019 - "Armenia!" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. *September 26 until January 9, 2018 - "Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. *October 2 until January 13, 2019 - "Pieter Breughel the Elder, Breughel" at the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna, Austria. *October 10 until October 25 -''Virgil Abloh, Abloh and Takashi Murakami, Murakami: America Too'' at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. *October 12 until April 23, 2019 - "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. *October 17 until January 9, 2019 - "Hedges, Edges, Dirt" at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in

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. *October 30 until January 25, 2019 - "Robert Morris: Banners an Curses" at the Castelli Gallery in New York City. *November 9 until January 9, 2019 - Alexander Calder, Calder/Ellsworth Kelly, Kelly at the Lévy Gorvy Gallery in New York City. *November 12 until March 31, 2019 - "Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. *December 11 until March 10, 2019 - "Museo del Prado: A place of memory 1819 - 2019 at the Pado in Madrid, Spain. *December 22 until April 7th, 2019 - "The Essential Marcel Duchamp, Duchamp", at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Works

** Bowery Mural in New York City. ** '' Love Is in the Bin''. ** ''Season's Greetings'' mural in Port Talbot. * Phyllida Barlow - "Prop" commissioned for installation along the High Line in Manhattan,

. * Christo - "The London Mastaba" on The Serpentine in London, England. *Martin Dawe - "Continuing the Conversation" on the main campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. *Chen Dongfang - "The Song of Dragon and Flowers" on Doyers Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. *Tristan Eaton - "Intermission" on the Bowery Mural wall in Manhattan, New York City. *Tracey Emin - "I Want My Time With You", light installation at St Pancras railway station, London. *Rachel Feinstein (artist), Rachel Feinstein "Angels". *Derek Fordjour - "Half Mast" (mural) at the

in New York City. *Stephen Glasborow - ''Statue of Johnny Famechon in Ballam Park in Frankston City, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. *

- The Queen's Window, Westminster Abbey, London (stained glass). *Ellsworth Kelly - "Austin" conceived and designed in 2015 completed and opened to the public in 2018 at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. *Donald Lipski - "Spot" installed in front of Hassenfield Children's Hospital at the Langone Medical Center in New York City. *James and Karla Murray - "Moms-and-Pops of the Lower East Side, L.E.S." installed in Seward Park (Manhattan), Seward Park on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City. *Yoko Ono - "Sky" (mosaics) inside the subway station at 72nd street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. *PLAYLAB - "Grownup Flowers" a multisite sculptural instillation along the Avenue of the Americas in New York City. *Ellie Sachs and Matt Starr (visual artist), Matt Starr - "The Museum of Banned Objects" instillation in the gallery of the Ace Hotel in New York City *Rafael San Juan - ''Reminiscencia''. *Okuda San Miguel ''Air Land Sea'' a series of seven sculptures permanently installed in and around the Boston Seaport in Boston, Massachusetts. *Amy Sherald - "First Lady Michelle Obama (painting), First Lady Michelle Obama" created for and on permanent exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery (United States), National Portrait Gallery in, Washington D.C. *Andrew Sinclair - Statue of David Bowie (Aylesbury, England). *Jennifer Steinkamp - "Blind Eye" created for and exhibited at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. *Ram V. Sutar - Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India. *Gillian Wearing - Statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London.

Awards

*The

- Yvette Coppersmith for "Self Portrait" *The Hugo Boss Prize - Simone Leigh *The John Moores Painting Prize - Jacqui Hallum for "King and Queen of Wands"

Films

*''At Eternity's Gate (film), At Eternity's Gate'' *''Fernando Botero, Botero'' *''Never Look Away'' *''The Price of Everything''

Deaths

*January 1 - Mauro Staccioli, 80, Italian sculptor *January 2 - Betty Woodman, 87, American ceramic artist *January 4 - Vladimir Yankilevsky, 79, Russian artist *January 5 - Carlo Pedretti, 89, Italian art historian (Leonardo da Vinci) *January 8 - Kynaston McShine, 82, American museum curator *January 15 - William Scharf, 90, American artist *January 17 - Ed Moses (artist), Ed Moses, 91, American artist *January 21 - Jack Whitten, 78, American artist *January 28 - Robert Pincus-Witten, 82, American art critic, curator and art historian *February 1 - Sonia Gechtoff, 91, American artist *February 12 - Jef Geys, 83, Belgian artist *February 18 - **Peggy Cooper Cafritz, 70, American art collector and philanthropist **Elmar Rojas, 75, Guatemalan artist *February 19 - Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian *

- Gillo Dorfles, 107, Italian art critic, art historian and painter *March 21 - Frank Gaylord, 93, American sculptor ("The Column" sculptural tableaux part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.) *February 24 - Getulio Alviani, 78, Italian painter *March 6 - Ferdousi Priyabhashini, 70, Bangladeshi sculptor *March 24 - Hidetoshi Nagasawa, 77, Japanese sculptor and architect *April 9 -

, 83, American art collector *April 11 - Gillian Ayres, 88, English painter *April 17 - Marcia Hafif, 89, American painter *April 24 - Hariton Pushwagner, 77, Norwegian Pop artist *April 28 - Laura Aguilar, 58, American photographer *April 30 - Geneviève Claisse, 82, French painter *

- Per Kirkeby, 79, Danish artist *May 14 - Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and art critic (The Painted Word) *May 19 - Robert Indiana, 89, American artist *May 20 - Bill Gold, 97, American film poster artist *

- **Alan Bean, 86, American astronaut and painter **Gregg Juarez, 94, American art dealer and philanthropist *June 1 - Malcolm Morley, 86, British painter *June 2 - Irving Sandler, 92, American art historian *June 7 **David Douglas Duncan, 102, American photojournalist **Michaele Vollbracht, 70, American illustrator and designer *June 13 - Milan Mrkusich, 93, New Zealand artist and designer *June 16 - Darío Villalba, 79, Spanish painter and photographer. *June 25 - David Goldblatt, 87, South African photographer (death announced on this date) *June 26 - Sabina Ott, 62, American artist *July 1 - Armando (artist), Armando, 88, Dutch painter, sculptor and writer *July 23 - Oksana Shachko, 31 Ukrainian artist and activist (FEMEN) *July 25 - Giancarlo Vitali (painter), Giancarlo Vitali, 88, Italian painter and engraver *August 1 - Cui Xiuwen, 47 or 48, Chinese artist *August 20 - Charles Blackman, 90, Australian painter *August 24 - Krishna Reddy (artist), Krishna Reddy, 93, Indian artist *August 27 - Mirka Mora, 90, French-born Australian artist and cultural figure *August 28 - Silvano Campeggi, 95, Italian film poster designer (''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'', ''Singin' in the Rain'', ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'') *August 30 **Marie Severin, 89, American comics artist and colorist **Paul Taylor (choreographer), Paul Taylor, 88, American choreographer and artistic collaborator with Robert Rauschenberg and Alex Katz *September 1 - Irving Petlin, 83, American artist *September 11 - Tchan Fou-li, 102, Chinese photographer *September 17 - Annette Michelson, 96, American art critic (co-founder of October (journal), October) and film critic (death announced on this date) *September 18 - Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of "Learning from Las Vegas" *September 19 - Geta Brătescu, 92, Romanian visual artist *September 20 - Henry Wessel Jr., 76, American photographer *

- Jane Fortune, American art writer (Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence) and philanthropist *September 26 - Helena Almeida, 84, Portuguese painter and photographer *October 1 - Shirin Aliabadi, 44–45, Iranian visual artist *October 3 - Wen Fong, 88, Chinese-American art historian *October 10 - Angelo Marino, 62, Italian art curator *October 11 - ** Milton Gendel, 99, American-Italian photographer and art critic (ARTnews) **Anatoli Levitin, 96, Russian painter and art educator **Pran Nevile, 95, Indian art historian *October 12 - Takehisa Kosugi, 80, Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement *October 14 - **Eduardo Arroyo, 81, Spanish painter, set designer and writer **Mel Ramos, 83, American painter *October 15 - Paul Allen , 65, American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist *October 17 - Jacques Monory, 94, French painter and filmmaker *October 21 - Harold Stevenson, 89, American painter *November 4 - Karl-Heinz Adler, 91. German artist *November 12 - Stan Lee, 95, American comic book artist *November 13 - Richard Fremantle, 82, American art historian (Masacio) * November 15 - Lubomir Tomaszewski, 95, Polish-American artist *November 16 - Francisco Calvo Serraller, 70, Spanish art historian *November 18 - Walter S. Gibson, 86, American art historian *November 18 - Peter Peryer, 77, New Zealand photographer *November 21 - Jan-Lauritz Opstad, 68, Norwegian art historian and museum director *November 23 - Mariano Bellver, 92, Spanish art patron *November 26 - Tomás Maldonado, 96, Argentine painter and designerTomás Maldonado y su Arte Concreto : "Éramos jóvenes insoportables"
*November 28 - Robert Morris (artist), Robert Morris, 87, American sculptor *

- Vivian Lynn, 87, New Zealand artist *December 8 - Enrico Crispolti, 85, Italian art critic and historian *December 26 - Wendy Beckett (aka Sister Wendy), 88, British religious sister and art historian *December 27 - Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois Architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau station, Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil station, Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke) *December 29 - Norbert Kox, 73, American outsider artist

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