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Overview of the events of 2016 in art
Overview of the events of 2016 in art
The year 2016 in art involves various significant events.
Events
March - The Whitney Museum of American Art.
[1]
The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer -designed building was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in 2016. It is now known as the Met Breuer.
July 28 - The re-discovery of Albrecht Dürer 's engraving Mary with Infant Jesus previously considered lost since World War II is reported.[2] The engraving was noticed in good condition at a flea market in Sarrebourg and returned to Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .[2]
September 30 - The recovery of two paintings by
November - The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in
Buffalo, New York simultaneously breaks ground on its new $160 million dollar expansion project (dubbed AK360) and closes until the undertaking's planned completion date of 2022. Funds raised for the new development include a $42.5 million dollar challenge grant given by
Western New York native
Jeffrey Gundlach , (the largest single gift ever to a Buffalo cultutsl institution and to which he later added a further $10 million dollar sum). When the museum reopens in 2022 it will be known as the Albright Knox Gundlach Art Museum.
[4] [5]
December 19 - The
Exhibitions
January 20 until April 17 - "In the Lion's Den: Daniel MacDonald,
February 5 until April 27 -
February 18 until May 15 - "O'Keeffe , Stettheimer , Torr , Zorach : Women Modernists in New York" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida .[citation needed ]
February 18 until June 13 - "Munch and Expressionism" at the Neue Galerie New York .[10]
March 2 until June 5 - "Frick collection in New York City.
[11]
March 18 until August 21 -
March 18 until September 4 - "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer in New York City.[13]
March 23 until July 10 - "
March 26 until February 1, 2017 - "
April 27 until June 19 - "Andra Ursuta: Alps" at the New Museum in New York City.[16]
May 7 until November 27 - "A Toronto, Ontario, Canada then traveled to the
Japan Society in New York City from March 10 until June 11, 2017.
[17] [18]
May 27 until September 7 - "Moholy-Nagy: Future Present" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in
New York City .
June 10 until September 25 - "Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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June 18 until April 16, 2017 - "MOMA in New York City.
[20]
June 28 until October 2 -"Francesco Clemente : Winter Flowers and the Tree of Life" at the Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala in Siena , Italy.[21]
September 1 until October 4 - Shen Jingdong + Jon Tsoi: No Head No Heart at White Box Gallery in New York City.[22]
September 1 until October 23 -
September 2 until January 8, 2017 - "Morgan Library in New York City.
[24]
September 16 until January 2, 2017 - "Carmen Herrera : Lines of Sight" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[25]
September 30 until January 29, 2017 - "Los Angeles to New York:
October 7 until January 16, 2017 - "Valentin de Boulogne : Beyond Caravaggio " at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[28]
October 7 until January 11, "Agnes Martin " at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[29]
October 19 until February 20, 2017 - "Max Beckmann in New York" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[30]
October 25 - January 29, 2017 - "Kerry James Marshall : Mastry" at the Met Breuer in New York City.[31]
October 26 - January 15, 2017 - "Pipilotti Rist : Pixel Forest" at the New Museum in New York City.[32]
November 21 until March 16, 2017 - "Francis Picabia : Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction" at MOMA in New York City.[33]
December 15 until October 31, 2017 - "
Works
Morningside Park, New York City.
[36]
Mindaugas Bonanu and Dominykas Čečkauskas - "Make Everything Great Again ".[37]
Fernando Botero - La paloma de la paz permanently installed at the Casa de Nariño in Bogotá , Colombia
The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo near Brescia, Italy
Coldwar Steve -
McFadden's Cold War (
Twitter feed begins March)
Michael Dean - United Kingdom poverty line for two adults and two children: twenty thousand four hundred and thirty six pounds sterling as published on 1st September 2016 (installation).[40]
Jeremy Deller - We're Here Because We're Here (event staged across U.K. July 1).[41]
Bob Dylan - "Portal" at MGM National Harbor Oxon Hill, Maryland.[42]
Eric Fischl - Late America [43]
Lubaina Himid - Le Rodeur (series of paintings)
Chul Hyun Ahn - "The Wells" at MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Maryland.[45] [46]
Martin Jennings -
Christian Marclay - "Chewing Gum".[47]
Carolyn Palmer - Statue of Lucille Ball (sculpture, second and permanent replacement version, Celoron, New York ).[48]
Giuseppe Penone The Germination Series at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi , UAE.[49]
Pikachu (anonymous sculptor, New Orleans, Louisiana).
[50]
Ugo Rondinone - Seven Magic Mountains commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art and installed in the Nevada desert between the towns of Sloan and Jean .[53]
Michal Rovner - Anubis .[54]
Dana Schutz - Open Casket .
Matt Starr - Amazon Boy .[55]
Vytautas Tomaševičius - A Still Life with Two Objects .
Jordan Wolfson - Colored Sculpture .[56]
Awards
Deaths
January 2 - Marcel Barbeau , 90, Canadian painter and sculptor
January 4 - Frank Armitage , 91, Australian-American artist for Walt Disney Studios
January 6 - Uche Okeke , 83, Nigerian artist
January 10
January 13 - Lois Weisberg , 90, Cultural affairs commissioner of Chicago (1988-2011)
January 14 - Sergio Vacchi , 90, Italian painter
January 16 - Joannis Avramidis , 93, Georgian-born Austrian sculptor
January 17
January 25 - Thornton Dial , 87, American artist
February - Jon Thompson , c. 80 English artist and teacher
February 11 - Charles Garabedian , 92, Armenian American painter
February 10 - Douglas Haynes , 80, Canadian painter
February 12 – Sossen Krohg , 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director[63]
February 16
February 18 - Karl Stirner , 92, German-born American sculptor
March 3 - Tome Serafimovski , 80, Macedonian sculptor
March 4 - Pirro Cuniberti , 92, Italian artist
March 5
March 10 - Anita Brookner , 87, British art historian and novelist
March 11 - Rómulo Macció , 84, Argentine painter
March 19 - Bob Adelman , 85, American photographer
March 23 - Arie Smit , 99, Dutch-born Indonesian painter
March 31 - Zaha Hadid , 65, Iraqi born British architect
April 1 - André Villers , 85, French photographer
April 2 - Rick Bartow , 69, Native American artist
April 3 - Leopoldo Flores , 82, Mexican artist
April 11 - Anne Gould Hauberg , 98, American arts patroness
April 15
April 16 - Richard Smith , 84, British painter
April 24
April 28 - Charles Gatewood , 73, American photographer
April 30 - Marisol Escobar , 85, French born American sculptor of Venezuelan descent
May 2
May 4 - Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd , 81, Swedish artist "Non violence ", (death announced on this date)
May 8 - Louisa Chase , 65, American painter
May 10 - François Morellet , 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist
May 19 - Hugh Honour , 88, British art historian
June 4 - Piero Leddi , 85, Italian painter
June 16
June 19 - Nicolás García Uriburu , 78, Argentine artist and landscape architect
) and writer
June 24 - Tony Feher , 60. American sculptor
June 25
July 6 - Shaw McCutcheon , 94, American editorial cartoonist
July 15 - Janez Bernik , 82, Slovenian painter
July 18
July 22 -
S.H. Raza
, 94, Indian artist
August 9 - Ernst Neizvestny , 91, Russian-American sculptor (Mask of Sorrow ), painter, graphic artist and art philosopher
August 31 - Nathan Lyons , 86, American photographer
September 4 - Ralph Goings , 88, American painter
September 13 - Gérard Rondeau , 63, French photographer
September 18 - Hassan Sharif , 65, Emirati artist
September 19 - Annie Pootoogook , 47, Canadian Inuit artist
September 29 - Shirley Jaffe , 93, American painter and sculptor
Denver Museum of Art
)
October 1 - Daphne Odjig , 97, Canadian First Nations artist
October 2
October 4
Klaus Kertess
, 76, American curator and gallerist
October 12 - David Antin , 84, American poet, critic and performance artist
October 31 - Silvio Gazzaniga , 95, Italian sculptor (FIFA World Cup Trophy )
November 3 - Misha Brusilovsky , 85, Russian artist
November 10 - Leonard Cohen , 82, Canadian poet, songwriter and artist
November 14
November 16 - Myles Murphy , 89, English painter
November 28 - William Christenberry . 80, American artist
December 1 - Ousmane Sow , 81, Senegalese sculptor
December 20 - El Hortelano , Spanish painter
December 21 - Corno , 64, Canadian artist
December 22
December 23 - Tim Pitsiulak , 49, Inuk artist
December 29 - Judith Mason , 78, South African painter
December 30 - Tyrus Wong , 106, Chinese born American artist and film production illustrator (Bambi )
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