2022 in art
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The year 2022 in art involves various significant events.
Events[edit]
- February - Twenty five works by the Ukrainian painter Maria Prymachenko are believed to have been destroyed by a fire which consumed the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (where they were housed) in Ivankiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]
- April 9 - The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens to the public after a five-year, $105 million overhaul.[3]
- May - French authorities charge former President of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez with money laundering in conjunction with an art trafficking case.[4]
- May 8 - The Andy Warhol silk-screen painting Sage Blue Shot Marilyn (1964) sells at Christie's in New York City for $195.04 million (with fees) shattering the record for a price paid at auction for a work by an American artist, besting the previous mark set by Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting Untitled which sold for $110,500,000 in 2017.[5][6] It also became the most expensive 20th century artwork sold in a public sale.[7] The buyer was the American art dealer Larry Gagosian.[8]
- May 14 - An original print of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres sells for $12.4 million US (with fees) at Christie's in New York City making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.[9][10]
- May 31 - At the Louvre in Paris a male provocateur initially disguised as an elderly female art-goer in a wheelchair smears the bulletproof glass on top of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci with cake. He later reveals that he believes that he was engaged in some sort of makeshift climate protest. The still unidentified 36 year old man was subsequently placed in psychiatric care.[11][12]
Exhibitions[edit]
- January 31 until June 5 - Charles Ray: Figure Ground at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[13]
- February 3 until April 16 - Ed Kerns: Interconnected at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.[14]
- February 11 until April 17 - Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s) at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City.[15]
- February 11 until May 15 - Holbein: Capturing Character's at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.[16]
- February 17 until May 15 - Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[17]
- March 3 until April 14 - Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All at the Kasmin Gallery in New York City.[18]
- March 3 until July 24 - Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[19]
- May 14 until October 2 - Nick Cave: Forothemore at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.[20]
- May 20 until October 16 - Marc Quinn: History Paintings + at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[21]
- Ongoing - Ricky Brown: Really Bad Portraits in Washington Square Park in New York City.[22]
Works[edit]
- William Behrends - Statue of Tom Seaver (permanently installed at Citi Field in Queens, New York)[23]
- Alex Da Corte - ROY G BIV (commissioned for and exhibited at the 2022 Whitney Biennial)[24]
- Dmitry Iv - Shoot Yourself (sculpture) in Kyiv, Ukraine[25]
- Allison Saar - Statue of Lorraine Hansberry[26]
Awards[edit]
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Films and series[edit]
Deaths[edit]
- January 1 - Calisto Tanzi, 83, Italian art collector and convicted fraudster
- January 4 - Craig Ruddy, 53, Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner (COVID-19)[27]
- January 14 - Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish-Catalonian architect
- January 15 - Hossein Valamanesh, 72, Iranian-Australian artist
- January 16
- Tova Berlinski, 106, Polish-born Israeli painter[28]
- Alekos Fassianos, 86, Greek painter
- Andrei Mudrea, 67, Moldovan painter and plastic artist
- January 31 - James Bidgood, 88, American filmmaker, photographer, and visual and performance artist
- February 7 - Dan Lacey, 61, American painter
- February 10 - John Wesley, 93, American painter
- February 12 - Carmen Herrera, 106, Cuban-born American artist[29]
- February 17 - John Scott, 71, Canadian artist
- February 19
- Marino Golinelli, 101, Italian art collector
- Dan Graham, 79, American artist[30]
- Jan Pieńkowski, 85, Polish-born British illustrator
- February 22 - DeWain Valentine, 86, American sculptor
- February 26
- Antonio Seguí, 88, Argentine cartoonist and painter
- Srihadi Soedarsono, 90, Indonesian painter
- February 27 - Nick Zedd, 63, American filmmaker and painter
- March 1 - Conrad Janis, 94, American actor, art dealer, and son of Sidney Janis
- March 13 - Albert Kresch, 99, American painter
- March 18 - Budi Tek, 65, Indonesian art collector
- March 28 - Mira Calix, 52, South African-born British visual artist and musician
- March 29 - Ted Mooney, 70, American novelist and Art journalist (Art in America)
- March 31 - Patrick Demarchelier, 78, French photographer
- April 1 - Eleanor Munro, 94, American art critic, art historian, and writer
- April 4 -
- Donald Baechler, 65, American painter
- Jerry Uelsmann, 87, American photographer
- April 6 - David McKee, 87, British illustrator
- April 18 - Hermann Nitsch, 83, Austrian artist (Viennese Actionism)
- April 21 - Cynthia Plaster Caster, 74, American artist
- April 22 - Marcus Leatherdale, 69, Canadian photographer
- April 23 - Enoch Kelly Haney, 81, American sculptor and painter
- April 30 - Ron Galella 91, American photographer
- May 7 - Suzi Gablik 87, American artist, and art critic
- May 10 - Enrique Metinides, 88, Mexican crime photographer
- May 15 - Knox Martin, 99, American painter
- May 18 - Bob Neuwirth, 82, American Musician, singer-performer, painter
- May 22 - Miss.Tic, 66, French street artist
- May 24 - David Datuna, 48, Georgian born American artist
- June 5 - Christopher Pratt, 86, Canadian painter and printmaker
- June 6 - Jacques Villeglé, 96, French mixed-media artist
- June 8 - Paula Rego, 87, Portuguese-British visual artist
- June 12
- Tarek Al-Ghoussein, 60, Kuwaiti visual and performance artist
- Heidi Horten, 81, Austrian art collector
References[edit]
- ^ Stevens, Matt; Bowley, Graham (28 February 2022). "Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say". The New York Times.
- ^ "Ukrainian Culture and Art Comes Under Attack in the Wake of Russia's Invasion".
- ^ "Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum". Los Angeles Times. 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Former Louvre president Jean-Luc Martinez charged in Abu Dhabi art trafficking case". The Washington Post. 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (10 May 2022). "Warhol's 'Marilyn,' at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist". The New York Times.
- ^ "Andy Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m". TheGuardian.com. 10 May 2022.
- ^ "At $195mn, Warhol's Marilyn becomes most expensive 20th-century painting - la Prensa Latina Media".
- ^ "Who's Gagosian, the Winning Bidder for Warhol's $195 Million 'Marilyn'". Bloomberg.com. 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million". CNN.
- ^ "Man Ray's Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M". 14 May 2022.
- ^ "Mona Lisa smeared with cake in apparent climate protest". CBS News.
- ^ "Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake". TheGuardian.com. 30 May 2022.
- ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/charles-ray[bare URL]
- ^ "'Interconnected' cross-campus exhibit celebrates four decades of ed Kerns' expression through art".
- ^ "In Pictures: See Crowds Lose Themselves in Artist Tomás Saraceno's Immersive Spiderweb Environment at the Shed". 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Holbein: Capturing Character". 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman".
- ^ "Dorothea Tanning's Enigmatic Art Journeys Beyond Surrealism in a New Show at Kasmin". 9 March 2022.
- ^ "Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction | Yale Center for British Art".
- ^ "MCA - Nick Cave: Forothermore".
- ^ "Marc Quinn: History Painting + | Yale Center for British Art".
- ^ "Funny Artist Draws "Really Bad Portraits" of Strangers on the Street of NYC for $3". 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Mets unveil overdue Tom Seaver statue outside Citi Field". 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Alex da Corte: ROY G BIV".
- ^ "'Shoot Yourself': Statue of Putin with gun in his mouth appears in Kyiv". 10 May 2022.
- ^ Bahr, Sarah (19 May 2022). "Lorraine Hansberry Statue to be Unveiled in Times Square". The New York Times.
- ^ "Craig Ruddy, Archibald prize-winning painter, dies at 53". The Guardian. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ Jessica Steinberg (17 January 2022). "Tova Berlinski, artist who painted the pain of Auschwitz, dies at 106". Times of Israel. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Oliver Basciano (14 February 2022). "Carmen Herrera obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Dan Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Bent Time and Space, Dies at 79