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Overview of the events of 2012 in art
Overview of the events of 2012 in art
The year 2012 in art involves some significant events.
Events
January – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum extension in Boston , Massachusetts, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, is opened[1]
February – Extension to Städel art gallery in Frankfurt , Germany, designed by schneider+schumacher, scheduled for opening[1] [2]
March – The
March – The
March – A large trove of art is discovered in Munich , part of which was looted by the Nazis. German authorities only acknowledge the discovery after press reports in November 2013[5]
March 29 – Refurbished and renamed Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, with new Mordant Wing designed by Sam Marshall, opened
[1] [6]
May 1 – One of four versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch sells at Sotheby's in New York City for $119.9 million including the buyer's commission, the most ever paid for a work of art at auction[7]
May 10 – God Speed by Edmund Leighton is sold to a private collector through Sotheby's in London[8]
May 29 – Tate Britain announces that it has received a donation of nine works of art dating from the 1960s–90s from the private collection of Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker[10]
July 18 – Tate Modern , London , opens The Tanks performance art/installation space, refurbished by Herzog & de Meuron [12]
July 27
September - The San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. closes
[20]
September 23 – Renovation and new wing for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten , opened to public[1] [22]
September 27 – The "Isleworth Mona Lisa " is unveiled to the public for the first time in 40 years[23]
October 1 (National Day of the People's Republic of China ) – China Art Museum and the Power Station of Art open in the former China pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai to house exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art
November – The auction house Sotheby's removes Cady Noland 's piece Cowboys Milking (1990) from their contemporary sale after the artist "disavows" the work. Both Noland and the auction house are then sued by the piece's owner, gallerist Marc Jancou for twenty six million dollars (with twenty million being sought from Noland and six from Sotheby's)[24] but a judge dismisses Jancou's lawsuit[25]
Exhibitions
To January 9 – "de Kooning : A Retrospective" at the Museum of Modern Art , New York [27]
To February 5 – "Leonardo da Vinci , Painter at the Court of Milan" at the National Gallery , London[28]
To
January 21 until April 9 – "David Hockney : A Bigger Picture" at the Royal Academy, London[30]
January 27 until May 13 - No Lone Zone (works by Teresa Margolles , Cinthia Marcelle , David Zink Yi , and Tercerunquinto) at the Tate Modern in London, UK.[31]
February 9 until May 27 – "Lucian Freud Portraits" at the National Portrait Gallery, London [33]
February 15 until
March 13 until July 1 – "Degas et le Nu" at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris [37]
March 14 until June 5 – "Turner Inspired in the Light of Claude " at the National Gallery, London[38]
From
April 4 until July 20 - "The Ideal City : The Renaissance Utopia at Urbino between Piero della Francesca and Raphael ” at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino , Italy[39] [40]
April 4 until September 9 – "Damien Hirst " at Tate Modern , London[41]
From
From June 9 until September 2 – Picturing the South , photographs by Martin Parr , Kael Alford, and Shane Lavalette [43]
From June 28 until October 14 – "Edvard Munch : The Modern Eye" at Tate Modern, London[44]
From August 18 – "India: Art Now" at the Arken Museum of Modern Art , Copenhagen [45]
From September 9 – "Arte Povera : The Great Awakening" at the Kunstmuseum Basel [45]
From September 12 – "Pre-Raphaelites : Victorian Avant-Garde" at Tate Britain, London[46]
From September 15 until December 9 – "Bronze" at the Royal Academy, London[45]
From September 16 – "Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[47]
From
From New York City, New York
[48]
From September 28 – "Paul Gauguin : The Prints" at the Kunsthaus Zürich [45]
From
From October 10 – "Richard Hamilton : The Late Works" at the National Gallery, London[45]
From October 13 – "Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present" at the National Gallery, London
From November 15 – "George Bellows " at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[49]
From November 18 – "Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde" at the Museum of Modern Art New York City, New York[50]
From December 4 – "Matisse: In Search of True Painting" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Works
Awards
Films
Deaths
January 1
January 3 – Winifred Milius Lubell , 97, American illustrator and writer
January 4 – Eve Arnold , 99, American photographer
January 19 – Peter de Francia , 90, French-English painter and illustrator
January 31
February 3 – Jorge Glusberg , 79, Argentine author and director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes MNBA
February 6
February 8 - Theophilus Brown , 92, American painter
February 18 – Matt Lamb , 79, American painter
February 24 – Kenneth Price , 77, American ceramicist, sculptor
March 8 – Minoru Mori , 77, Japanese founder of the Mori Art Museum
March 16 – Anita Steckel , 82, American feminist artist
March 27 – Hilton Kramer , 84, American art critic
April 2 – Elizabeth Catlett , 96, American born Mexican sculptor and printmaker
April 6 – Thomas Kinkade , 54, American painter
April 9
April 12 – John Weaver , 92, Canadian sculptor
April 19 - Enrico Pedrini , 72, Italian academic, theorist, and art collector
April 25 - Louis le Brocquy , 95, Irish painter
April 27 – David Weiss (Fischli & Weiss), 65, Swiss artist
May 2 - Bram Bogart , 90, Dutch born Belgian painter
May 11 – Tony DeZuniga , 79, Filipino illustrator
May 15 – George Wyllie , 90, Scottish artist
May 30 – Barton Lidice Beneš , 69, American artist
June 9 – Paul Jenkins , 88, American painter
June 10 – Georges Mathieu , 91, French painter
June 20 – LeRoy Neiman , 91, American painter
June 22 – Mary Fedden , 96, British painter
June 28 – Ivan Karp , 86, American art dealer
Herbert Vogel
, 89, American art collector
July 25 – Franz West , 65, Austrian painter and sculptor
July 26 – Karl Benjamin , 86, American painter
July 28 – Adam Cullen , 46, Australian painter
August 6 – Robert Hughes , 74, Australian-born art critic
August 9 – Jan Sawka , 65, Polish-born American artist and architect
August 21 – Hans Josephsohn , 92, German-born Swiss sculptor
September 8 – Mario Armond Zamparelli , 81, American artist and designer
September 11 – Tony Goldman , 68, American real estate developer, art impresario, and preservationist
September 14 – Don Binney , 72, New Zealand painter
September 29 – Mark Wiener , 61, American painter
October 6 – Raoul De Keyser , Belgian painter
Edgar Negret
, 92, Colombian sculptor
October 15 - Michael Asher , 69, American conceptual artist
October 30 – Lebbeus Woods , 72, American artist and architect
November 13 – Will Barnet , 101, American painter
November 16 – William Turnbull , 90, Scottish artist
November 17 – Arnaud Maggs , 86, Canadian artist and photographer
December 15 – Jeffrey Potter , 94, writer, authored a biography of Jackson Pollock
December 20 – Robert Juniper , 83, Australian artist
December 29 – Edward Meneeley , 85, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
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