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Overview of the events of 2015 in art
The year 2015 in
art involves various significant events.
February -
Paul Gauguin 's painting
When Will You Marry? sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to
Qatar Museums , the highest known price ever paid for any work of art
April - The accused rapist in the
Emma Sulkowicz case which inspired the art piece "
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) " files suit in
United States Federal Court in
Manhattan against
Columbia University , its art department chairman
Jon Kessler , and the University president
Lee C. Bollinger , saying through his attorneys, that he is the victim of
gender discrimination and a "witch hunt".
[1]
April 2 -
Sir Peter Blake 's temporary artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle ,
Mersey Ferry
MV Snowdrop painted in a variation of
dazzle camouflage , enters service on the
River Mersey in England.
[2]
April 13 - A South African man is charged with vandalising a Johannesburg statue of
Mahatma Gandhi by attempting to paint it white.
[3]
May 1 - The new
Whitney Museum of American Art facility in the
Meatpacking District, Manhattan , designed by
Renzo Piano , opens.
[4]
Whitney Museum , New York
May 11 - One canvas, "Version O", the final painting from a series of fifteen paintings and numerous drawings entitled
Les Femmes d'Alger by
Pablo Picasso created after the death of his friend and contemporary
Henri Matisse sells for $179.4 million U.S (with fees) at
Christie's in
New York City thus establishing a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art.
[5] At the same sale "
Pointing Man ", a work by the Swiss artist
Alberto Giacometti sells for $141.3 million U.S., making it the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction.
[6]
[7]
August 21 - Street artist
Banksy opens
Dismaland , a temporary art project in the seaside resort town of
Weston-super-Mare in
Somerset , England.
[8]
September -
Rembrandt 's early painting
Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell) (from The Senses series, 1624-5) emerges at an auction in
New Jersey and is purchased for the
Leiden Collection in
New York City .
September 20 -
The Broad contemporary art museum in
Downtown Los Angeles , designed by
Diller Scofidio + Renfro , opens.
October 2 - La Artcore Gallery in Los Angeles, US, presents "Excessivist Initiative", an exhibition that marks the beginning of the
Excessivism movement in art.
[9]
October 8 - Newport Street Gallery in
South London , a conversion of 1913 theatrical workshops into a free public art gallery for
Damien Hirst by
Caruso St John architects opens.
[10]
November 10 -
The Brigadier by
Lucian Freud , a portrait of
Andrew Parker Bowles in his
British Army uniform sells for $34.89 million US at Christie's in
New York City .
[11]
December 6 - A woman at the
Art Basel Miami Beach art fair stabs another in plain sight of art goers and the incident is at first ignored as people think that it is a work of performance art.
[12]
January 31 until
May 31 -
Coney Island : Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 at the
Wadsworth Atheneum in
Hartford, Connecticut .
[13]
February 6 until
May 10 - Treasures from
Chopin's Country. Polish Art from the 15th to 20th Century at the
National Museum of China in Beijing.
[14]
February 6 until
May 3 -
Tapies : From Within at the
Pérez Art Museum Miami .
[15]
February 20 until
May 24 -
Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic at the
Brooklyn Museum in
Brooklyn, New York
[16] - then traveled to the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in
Fort Worth, Texas from
September 20 until January 10, 2016
[17] and to the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in
Richmond, Virginia from June 11. 2016 until September 5, 2016
[18]
February 25 until
May 24 -
The "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience " at the
New Museum in
New York City .
[19]
[20]
February 1 until
May 3 - Once in a Lifetime:
Piero di Cosimo at the
National Gallery of Art, Washington , then travels to
Galleria degli Uffizi ,
Florence (June 23–September 27, 2015).
[21]
March 7 until June 7 -
Björk (exhibition) at MOMA in New York City.
March 10 until
September 20 -
Richard Estes : Painting New York City at the
Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
[22]
March 26 until
September 13 - Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of
Tyrus Wong at the
Museum of Chinese in America " in New York City.
[23]
May 9 until
September 22 - "
Sean Scully : Land Sea" at the
Palazzo Falier in
Venice , Italy.
[24]
May 1 until
September 27 - America is Hard to See at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
[25]
May 17 -
September 7 - "
Yoko Ono : One Woman Show, 1960–1971" at
MOMA in New York City.
[26]
June 5 until
August 30 - Polish Art: Enduring Spirit at the
National Museum of Korea in Seoul.
[27]
June 28 until
October 4 -
Gustave Caillebotte : The Painter's Eye at the
National Gallery of Art, Washington .
[28]
June 30 until
October 4 - "
Sargent : Portraits of Artists and Friends" at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York CIty,
[29]
July 10 until
January 24 , 2016 -
No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990 at the
Guildhall Art Gallery ,
City of London ,
[30]
July 18 until
September 27 -
Archibald ,
Wynne and
Sulman Prizes annual exhibition at the
Art Gallery of New South Wales in
Sydney , Australia.
[31]
July 31 until
November 8 - Masterpieces from the
Hermitage : The Legacy of
Catherine the Great at the
National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne , Australia.
[32]
August 14 until
October 25 -
Julia Margaret Cameron from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, at the
Art Gallery of New South Wales in
Sydney , Australia.
[33]
September 5 until
October 3 - "
Concrete
Cuba " at the
David Zwirner Gallery ,
London and then January 7, 2016 until February 20, 2016 at the David Zwirner Gallery, New York City.
[34]
[35]
September 14 until February 7, 2016 -
Picasso Sculpture at MOMA in New York City.
[36]
October 2 until October 29, 2016 - La Artcore gallery in Los Angeles, presented "Excessivist Initiative". The exhibition marked the beginning of the
Excessivism movement.
[37]
October 2 until January 17, 2016 -
Archibald Motley : Jazz Age Modernist at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
[38]
October 7 until January 10, 2016 -
Andrea del Sarto : The Renaissance Workshop in Action at the
Frick Collection in New York City.
[39]
October 9 until January 6, 2016 -
Alberto Burri : The Trauma of Painting at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
[40]
October 18 until January 10, 2016 - "
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art" curated by Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle at the
Minneapolis Institute of Art in
Minneapolis, Minnesota then traveled to the
National Gallery in London, United Kingdom from February 17, 2016 until May 22, 2016.
[41]
[42]
October 24 until February 14, 2016 - The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland at the
Art Gallery of New South Wales in
Sydney , Australia.
[43]
October 30 until February 7, 2016 -
Frank Stella : A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
[44]
November 5 until March 13, 2016 -
Martin Wong : Human Instamatic at the
Bronx Museum of Art .
[45]
November 19 until February 21, 2016 -
Nari Ward : Sun Splashed at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
[46]
November 21 until February 28, 2016 - ''Christopher Hart Chambers'' at the
Nassau County Museum of Art in
Roslyn Harbor, New York .
[47]
Atelier Van Lieshout - "
Domestikator "
[48]
Banksy – Portrait of
Steve Jobs at
Calais jungle .
Alberto Burri -
Il Grande Cretto ,
Gibellina ,
Sicily , Italy (work begun in 1984 completed)
Molly Crabapple - Saints and Sinners (mural) commissioned for and displayed at the
Knickerbocker Hotel in Mew York City.
[49]
Andy Edwards - Statue of
The Beatles
Dante Ferretti – Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life for
Expo 2015 in
Milan, Italy .
[50]
Rowan Gillespie - Bust of
Archbishop John Hughes permanently installed at the
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
[51]
Anthea Hamilton – Project for Door (After Gaetano Pesce)
Jim and
Christina Demetro - Stuates of
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Robert Liberace -
The Fifth Circle
[52]
Peter Lundberg - Eye of Sauron installed on the
Ossining, New York , waterfront.
[53]
[54]
Michael Mandiberg - "
Print Wikipedia "
[55]
Cornelia Parker and collaborators –
Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
Paul Rucker - "Storm in the Time of Shelter"
[56]
Thomas Sayre -
Kerf sculptures , Portland, Oregon
[57]
Timothy Schmalz - Golden Leaves (statue of
Gordon Lightfoot ) in
Orillia, Ontario
[58]
Anne Storrs -
Along These Lines , Portland, Oregon
[59]
Emma Sulkowicz –
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) continued from 2014 at
Columbia University in
New York City .
[60]
Adrián Villar Rojas , "The Most Beautiful of All Mothers" in the
Sea of Marmara off the island of
Büyükada and in front of the Turkish home in exile of
Leon Trotsky as part of the 2015
Istanbul Biennial in
Istanbul, Turkey
[61]
Statue of Baphomet
Archibald Prize -
Nigel Milsom for "Portrait of
Charles Waterstreet
[62]
Artes Mundi Prize -
Theaster Gates
Käthe Kollwitz Prize -
Bernard Frize
[63] —The
Venice Biennial (May 9- November 22) --
Leone d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement:
El Anatsui ,
Ghana
Leone d'Oro for the Best Artist of the international exhibition:
Adrian Piper , United States
Leone d'Oro for the Best Young Artist: Im Heung-soon,
South Korea
Leone d'Oro for Best Pavilion:
Armenia ; Haig Aivazian, Nigol Bezjian, Anna Boghiguian, Hera Büyüktaş, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Mekhitar Garabedian,
Aikaterini Gegisian , Yervant Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi, Aram Jibilian, Nina Katchadourian, Melik Ohanian, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Rosana Palazyan, Sarkis, Hrair Sarkissian, curated by Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg
January 4 -
Elisabetta Catalano , 70, Italian fine-art photographer
January 5 -
Milton Hebald , 97, American sculptor
January 13 -
Jane Wilson , 90, American painter
January 15 -
Walter Westbrook , 93, South African artist
January 16
January 22 -
Margaret Bloy Graham , 94, Canadian author and illustrator
January 24 -
Frances Lennon , 102, English painter and illustrator
January 26 -
Cleven "Goodie" Goudeau , 83, American greeting card artist
January 27 -
Arturo Carmassi , 89, Italian sculptor and painter
January 29 -
Will McBride , 84, American photographer
January 31 -
Vasco Bendini , 93, Italian painter
February 3 -
Walter Liedtke , 69, American art curator of European paintings (
The Metropolitan Museum of Art )
February 7 -
John C. Whitehead , 92, American baker, civil servant and art collector
February 12 -
Tomie Ohtake , 101, Japanese-Brazilian artist
February 15 .-
Mikhail Koulakov , 82, Russian painter
February 21 -
John Knapp-Fisher , 83, British painter
February 24 -
Roger Cecil , 72, Welsh painter
March 1 -
Carel Visser , 86, Dutch sculptor
March 4 -
William King , 90, American sculptor
March 7 -
Osi Rhys Osmond , Welsh painter and television presenter
March 11 -
Inger Sitter , 85, Norwegian painter and graphic designer
March 12 -
Michael Graves , 80, American architect
March 13 -
Ismaïla Manga , 67, Senegalese painter
March 14 -
Bodys Isek Kingelez , 66 or 67,
Democratic Republic of Congo sculptor
March 17 -
Kuniyoshi Kaneko , 78, Japanese painter, illustrator and photographer
March 21 -
Hans Erni , 106, Swiss painter, designer and sculptor
March 24 -
Otto Frello , 90, Danish artist and illustrator
March 26 -
Albert Irvin , 92, British artist
March 27 -
Michael Rush , American museum director (the
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum )
March 31 -
Betty Churcher , 84, Australian arts administrator and curator, director of the
National Gallery of Australia (1990–1997)
April 2 -
Paule Anglim , 90+, American gallerist
April 5 -
Sargy Mann , 77, British painter
April 8 -
Lars Tunbjörk , 59, Swedish photographer
April 9 -
Rafael Soriano , 94, Cuban painter
April 12 -
Jože Ciuha , 90, Slovenian painter
April 15 -
Judith Malina , 88, American actress, co-founder of
The Living Theater
April 16 -
Giuseppe Zigaina . 91, Italian neorealist painter and author
May 4 -
Eva Aeppli , 90, Swiss artist
May 7 -
John Dixon , 86, Australian cartoonist (
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors )
[64]
May 8 -
Menashe Kadishman , 82, Israeli painter and sculptor
May 10
May 17 -
Gerald Steadman Smith , 85, Canadian artist
May 23 -
Carl Nesjar , 94, Norwegian painter and sculptor
May 25 -
Mary Ellen Mark , 75, American photographer
June 2 -
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas , 80, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator
June 12
June 19 -
Earl Norem , 92, American painter and illustrator
June 20 -
Miriam Schapiro , 91, Canadian-born American painter, sculptor and printmaker
June 22 -
Don Featherstone , 79, American artist and inventor of the
plastic pink flamingo
July 2 -
David Aronson , 91, American painter
July 20 -
Sally Gross , 81, American avant-garde choreographer, dancer
July 24 -
Ingrid Sischy , 63, South African born art critic
August 4 -
Calle Örnemark , 81, Swedish sculptor
August 10 -
Sunil Das , 76, Indian artist
August 16 -
Melva Bucksbaum , 82, American art collector, curator, patron of the arts and vice chairwoman of the
Whitney Museum board of trustees
August 28
September 3 -
Yevgeny Ukhnalyov , 83, Russian artist, co-author of the current coat of arms of Russia
September 6 -
John Perreault , 78, American art critic
September 12 -
Salvo , 68, Italian artist
September 15 -
Cor Melchers , 61, Dutch painter
September 17 -
Stojan Batič , 90, Slovene sculptor
September 19 -
Brian Sewell , 84, British art critic
September 25 -
Carol Rama , 97, Italian painter
September 26 -
Paul Reed , 96, American painter
October 10 -
Hilla Becher , 81, German photographer
October 15 -
Bruce Mozert , 98, American photographer
October 25 -
Wojciech Fangor , 92, Polish artist
November 3 -
Judy Cassab , 95, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter
November 4 -
Laila Pullinen , 82, Finnish sculptor.
November 7 -
Pancho Guedes , 90, Portuguese architect and artist
November 12
November 25 -
Eva Fuka , 88, Czech-born American photographer
November 26 -
Eldzier Cortor , 99, American artist
December 6 -
Holly Woodlawn , 69, Puerto Rican transgender actress and
Warhol superstar
December 13 -
Hema Upadhyay , 43, Indian artist
December 16 -
George Earl Ortman , 89, American artist
December 27 -
Ellsworth Kelly , 92, American artist
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