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Overview of the events of 2010 in art
The year 2010 in art involves some significant events.
February 3 – The sculpture
L'Homme qui marche I by
Alberto Giacometti sells in London for
£ 65 million, at this time a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
[1]
February–March – Artist
Michael Landy hosts the
Art Bin .
[2]
March –
Lawrence Salander , the former proprietor of the now closed Salander/O'Reilly Galleries pleads guilty to 29 felony counts of grand larceny and in August is sentenced to six to eighteen years in prison.
[3]
March 3 – The
New Museum in New York sparks controversy with
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection by deciding to exhibit works from the private collection of one of its trustees.
May –
MAXXI the new and first Italian national museum of contemporary art designed by architect
Zaha Hadid opens in Rome.
[4]
May 4 –
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust a 1932 painting by
Pablo Picasso is sold at
Christie's for $106.5 million.
[5] There are more than half a dozen bidders, while the winning bid is taken via telephone.
[6]
May 20 – Five paintings including works by
Picasso and
Matisse worth €100 million are stolen from the
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris .
[7]
[8]
June 9 – American Cable television
Bravo premieres a new series
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist . Produced by
Sarah Jessica Parker , judges included
Jerry Saltz ,
China Chow
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn , Bill Powers, and
Simon de Pury .
June 16 – The
Royal Cornwall Museum in
England sells two Victorian paintings (
Herbert James Draper 's The Sea Maiden and
Ernest Normand 's Bondage ) at Christie's to help secure its finances.
[9]
August – Launch of John Moores Painting Prize China.
[10]
October –
Ai Weiwei 's
Sunflower Seeds (painted porcelain) installed in
Tate Modern 's Turbine Hall.
December 6 –
Museo del Novecento (Museum of Twentieth Century), dedicated to Italian Art of the Twentieth Century, with a small collection of other related European art opens in
Milan .
[11]
David Annand -
Rory Gallagher (sculpture)
Sebastien Boyesen –
Guardian (sculpture)
Maurizio Cattelan – "L.O.V.E" (sculpture)
[19]
Olafur Eliasson – Colour Activity House (
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa , Japan)
[20]
Katharina Fritsch –
Hahn/Cock (sculpture)
Rodney Graham –
Aerodynamic Forms in Space (sculpture, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Anthea Hamilton – Brick Suit (sculpture)
Teresa Margolles – Muro Ciudad Juárez (instillation/sculpture)
[21]
Jonathan Meese –
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft (sculpture)
Julie Mehretu – Mural at
Goldman Sachs Headquarters in New York City
[22]
Wilhelm Sasnal –
Anka
Stik – A Couple Hold Hands in the Street (graffiti, East End of London)
Cy Twombly - Celing Mural in the Salle des Bronzes of the
Louvre in
Paris , France
[23]
Henry Ward –
The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim
Cajsa von Zeipel - Seconds in Ecstasy (sculpture,
Gothenburg Museum of Art ,
Gothenburg, Sweden )
Zhang Huan –
Hehe Xiexie (sculpture, Shanghai, China)
January 5 –
Kenneth Noland , 85, American
Color Field painter
January 27 –
Eduardo Michaelsen , 89,
Cuban exile
Naive painter
[28]
January 30
February 25 –
Ernst Beyeler , 88, Swiss art dealer and collector
March 1 –
Ruth Kligman , 80, American painter, known as the
muse of several important American artists of the mid 20th century notably
Jackson Pollock , and
Willem de Kooning , and only survivor of Jackson Pollock's fatal car accident
March 26 –
Charles Ryskamp , American art collector and former director of
The Frick Collection and
The Morgan Library & Museum
March 15 –
Elaine Hamilton , American painter
April 6 –
Hans Schröder , 78, German sculptor and painter
April 20
April 21 –
Deborah Remington , 79, American
Abstract artist
April 24 –
Giuseppe Panza , 87, Italian art collector
April 29 –
Avigdor Arikha , 80,
Israeli painter,
printmaker , and art historian
May 9 –
Craig Kauffman , 78, American
Abstract artist
May 18 –
Shusaku Arakawa , 73, Japanese painter,
conceptual artist and architect
May 29 –
Dennis Hopper , 74, American actor and visual artist
May 30 –
Lester Johnson , 91, American painter
May 31 –
Louise Bourgeois , 98, French-born American sculptor, artist
June 3 –
John Hedgecoe , 78, English photographer and author
[30]
June 6 –
Paul Wunderlich , 83, German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
June 7 –
Omar Rayo , 82, Colombian painter and sculptor
June 10 –
Sigmar Polke , 69, German painter and photographer
June 19 –
Paul Thiebaud , 49, American gallerist, art dealer
June 29 –
Doug Ohlson , 73, American painter
July 1 –
Arnold Friberg , 96, American painter
July 15 –
Nicolas Carone , 93, American painter
September 4 –
Paul Conrad , 86, American political cartoonist and sculptor
September 14 –
Ralph T. Coe , 81, American art museum director (
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art )
September 23 –
Stephen Pace , 91, American painter
October 2 –
Robert Goodnough , 92, American painter
October 8 –
Karl Prantl , 86, Austrian sculptor
October 24 –
Sylvia Sleigh , 94 American painter
November 8 –
Jack Levine , 95, American
Social realist painter
November 14 –
Nathan Oliveira , 81, American painter
November 23 –
Nassos Daphnis , 96, American painter
December 17 –
Captain Beefheart , 69, American musician and visual artist
December 24 –
John Warhola , 85, American museum founder (
The Andy Warhol Museum ) and brother of
Andy Warhol
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^
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"Bronzino" .
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"Teresa Margolles. Venice Biennale 2019" .
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"Big Art, Big Money" .
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"Tim Minchin portrait wins Archibald prize" . March 26, 2010.
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Bucksbaum Award
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" 'Spectrum Jesus', Keith Coventry – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums" . Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk . Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
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