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Overview of the events of 2015 in art
Overview of the events of 2015 in art
The year 2015 in art involves various significant events.
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
gender discrimination and a "witch hunt".
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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]
, New York
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]
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.
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Exhibitions
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 25 until May 24 - The "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience " at the New Museum in New York City .[19] [20]
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence (June 23–September 27, 2015).
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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]
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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MOMA in New York City.
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June 5 until August 30 - Polish Art: Enduring Spirit at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul.[27]
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 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]
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]
Minneapolis, Minnesota then traveled to the
National Gallery in London, United Kingdom from February 17, 2016 until May 22, 2016.
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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 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]
Works
Awards
Archibald Prize - Nigel Milsom for "Portrait of Charles Waterstreet [62]
Venice Biennial
(May 9- November 22) --
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
Films
Deaths
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