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Overview of the events of 2021 in art
Overview of the events of 2021 in art
The year 2021 in art involves various significant events.
Events
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel sells at
Sotheby's New York from the estate of
Sheldon Solow for US$92.2M ($80M hammer price), around nine times the previous record for this painter.
[1]
March - In
Beeple sells at
Christie's for a world record of $69.35 million US after beginning with a $100 estimate.
[3]
March 22 - The world's largest canvas painting (at over 17,000 square feet) "Journey of Humanity" by Sacha Jafri sells at auction in Dubai for 228 million Dirham ($62 million US) making it the fourth highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist. The artist then donates his proceeds to charity.[5]
April 15 - "The Church" an arts center founded by the visual artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik opens in Sag Harbor, New York on the East End of Long Island .[6]
June
Two 17th century old master European paintings (one by Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten of a boy wearing a red hat and one a self-portrait by the Italian painter
Pietro Bellotti ) are found in a garbage dumpster at a roadside service station in the region of
Bavaria in Germany.
[9]
Greece recovers two paintings stolen from the
August - Artworks in the style of Banksy appear across East Anglian towns in England. These works are subsequently confirmed by the artist's social media apparatus to be by Banksy and are further revealed to be named A Great British Spraycation en totale.[11] [12]
Picasso paintings and ceramics from the
Bellagio resort in
Las Vegas sells at auction for almost US$110M.
[13]
November - PRC at the beginning of a world tour.
[14]
November 16 - Diego y yo (Diego and I ) (1949) by Frida Kahlo sells for $34.9 million at Sotheby's in New York City setting a new record price for a work by a Latin American artist and in the process shattering the previous mark of $9.7 million US set in 2017 by the artist's husband Diego Rivera 's 1931 work The Rivals at Christie's in New York City.[15]
Exhibitions
January 30 until April 25 - Emma Amos : Color Odyssey at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia - then travels to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York (June 19 to September 12, 2021), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 9, 2021, to January 2, 2022).[16]
February 11 until May 23 - Helen Frankenthaler : Late Works, 1990 - 2003 at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut .[17]
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.
[18]
February 20 until June 30 - Jan Cybis paintings at the Opera Gallery, Grand Theatre in Warsaw , Poland .[19]
March 5 until July 18 - Lorraine O'Grady : Both/And at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn. New York.[22]
March 22 until August 1 - Alice Neel : People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[24]
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
[25]
April 16 until March 20, 2022 - Franz Erhard Walther at Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York .[27]
May 29 until September 12 , 2021 The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland[30]
June 3 until August 27 - Arcmanoro Niles : Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive at the Lehman Maupin Gallery in New York City.[31] [32]
June 4 until October 3 - French Impressionism: From The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne , Australia.[33]
June 5 until September 26 - Archibald , Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2021 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney , Australia.[34]
June 5 until September 26 - Archie 100 A Century of the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney , Australia.[35]
MoMA in New York City.
[36]
June 12 until October 17 - European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane , Australia .[37] [38]
June 19 until September 19 - Nikolai Astrup : Visions of Norway at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts .[40]
Kasmin Gallery in New York City.
[43]
July 6 until January 2, 2022 - Damien Hirst : Cherry Blossoms at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris .[44]
Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia.
[45]
July 15 until February 20, 2022 - Maurizio Cattelan : Breaths Ghosts Blind at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan .[46]
September 4 until January 17, 2022 - Joan Mitchell at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco , California [48] then travels to the Baltimore Museum of Art from March 6, 2022 to August 14, 2022.[49]
September 8 until December 30 - Julian Schnabel : Self-Portraits of Others at the Brant Foundation in New York City.[50]
September 17 until October 30 - David Salle : Tree of Life at Skarstedt Gallery in New York City.[52]
September 29 until December 19 - Drift : Fragile Future at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City, New York.[53]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[55]
September 30 until December 23 - Erna Rosenstein Once Upon a Time at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.[56]
September 30 until January 9. 2022 - By Her Hand
September 30 until February 27, 2022 - Jenny Saville (curated by Sergio Risaliti) at the Museo Novecento in Florence , Italy.[59]
September 30 until November 23 - Valerie Hegarty : Gone Viral at the Malin gallery in New York City.[60]
San Francisco, California.
[62]
October 11 until January 30, 2022 - Surrealism Beyond Borders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[63] then travels to the Tate Modern in London from February 24, 2022 until August 29, 2022.[64]
November 4 until December 18 - Neo Rauch : The Signpost at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City.[66]
Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia.
[45]
November 21 until January 21, 2022 - Vilhelm Hammershøi : Light and silence at the National Museum, Poznań in Poznań, Poland.[69]
November 29 until October 2022 - Cajsa von Zeipel at the Rubell Museum in Miami , Florida .[70]
Works
Paintings
Sculpture
Tim Bavington - Win, Victory, Love in
Chris Carnbauci – , New York City
Maurizio Cattelan - Blind [76]
Alex Da Corte – As Long as the Sun Lasts , the Metropolitan Museum of Art roof commission[77]
Jordi Díez Fernández – Statue of Roland Garros Stadium
[79]
Leonardo Drew 82S [80]
Andy Edwards
Gillie and Marc – Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg permanently installed outside 445 Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn 's City Point in New York City[81]
Richard Hunt – Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument [82]
Alicja Kwade - Solid Sky at 550 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City[83]
Amanda Matthews - Girl Puzzle Monument Honoring Nellie Bly on Roosevelt Island in New York City[84]
David Mutasa – Statue of Mbuya Nehanda
Luke Perry - Phil Lynott Monument in West Bromwich , England[85]
Ian Rank-Broadley – Statue of Diana, Princess of Wales in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace in London [86]
Yinka Shonibare - Moving Up [87]
Benjamin Victor – I will have your back always...
Basil Watson – Hope Moving Forward
Stanley J. Watts – Statue of George Floyd
British Normandy Memorial
Bust of York – Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Statue of Ernest Burke
Statue of Ken Shimura
Statue of Marian Spencer
Mothers of Gynecology Monument
The Girl Puzzle Monument - Roosevelt Island, NYC by Amanda Matthews
Awards
Films
Deaths
January 1 - Jan de Bie , 74, Dutch artist
January 5 - Kim Tschang-yeul , 91, French-Korean painter
January 21 - David McCabe , 80, British photographer
January 22 - Forrest Moses , 86, American painter
January 24
January 26 - Cindy Nemser , 83, American art historian and art critic
January 30 - Bill Hammond , 74, New Zealand artist
February 7 - Luis Feito , 91, Spanish painter
February 16 - James Bishop , 93, American painter
February 19 - Arturo Di Modica , 80, Italian-born American sculptor (Charging Bull )
March 1
March 4 - Barbara Ess , 73, American photographer
March 7 - Duggie Fields , 75–76, British artist
March 18
March 28 - Gianluigi Colalucci , 92, Italian conservator-restorer (Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes )
April 4 - Jean Dupuy , 95, French born American srtist
April 20 - Mary Beth Edelson , 88, American artist
April 23 - Hans Rasmus Astrup , 82, Norwegian businessman, art collector, and museum founder (Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art ).
April 25 - William T. Wiley , 83, American interdisciplinary visual artist
April 30 - Eli Broad , 87, American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and museum co-founder (The Broad )
May 4 - Julião Sarmento , 72, Portuguese multimedia artist and painter
May 5 - Susanna Heller , 65, American and Canadian painter
May 11
May 19 - Alain Kirili , 74, French American sculptor
May 20 - Ingvar Cronhammar , 73, Swedish-Danish sculptor៛ (Elia )
May 26 - Roser Bru , 98, Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver
May 29
June 2 - Jane Kaufman , 83, American artist
June 7 - Douglas S. Cramer , 89, American art collector
June 10 - Tomás Llorens Serra , 84, Spanish art historian and museologist, director of IVAM (1986–1988), MNCARS (1988–1990) and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1991–2005)
June 16
June 18 - Gérard Fromanger , 81, French artist
June 19 - Arnold Odermatt , 96, Swiss photographer
June 21 - Diego Cortez , 74–75, American art curator (death announced on this date)
June 23 - Arturo Schwarz , 97, Italian art historian and writer
July 12 - Joseph Raffael , 88, American painter
July 14 - Christian Boltanski , 76, French sculptor, photographer, and painter
July 26 - Louise Fishman , 82, American painter
July 27 - Phillip King , 87, British sculptor
July 28
August 3 - Yolanda López , 78, American painter and printmaker
August 12
August 19 - Chuck Close , 81, American painter.
August 23
September 6 - Billy Apple , 85, New Zealand artist
September 28 - Achille Pace , 98, Italian painter
October 3 - Lars Vilks , 75, Swedish visual artist, founder of Ladonia
October 12 - Julie L. Green , 60, American artist
October 14 - Margo Leavin , 85, American art dealer
October 16 - Paul Blanca , 62, Dutch photographer
October 18 - Manuel Neri , 91, American sculptor
October 20 - Nyapanyapa Yunupingu , 76, Australian Yolngu painter
October 22 - Lía Bermúdez , 91, Venezuelan sculptor
October 25 - Patrick Reyntiens , 95, British stained glass artist
October 29
November 2 - Bettina Grossman , 94, American artist
November 12 - Dave Hickey , 82, American art critic
November 14 - Etel Adnan , 96, American artist
November 17 - Jimmie Durham , 81, American sculptor and poet
November 18 - Mick Rock , 72, British photographer (death announced on this date)
November 20 - Carlo Maria Mariani , 90, Italian painter
November 20 - Rita Letendre , 93, Canadian painter
November 21 - Robert Bly , 94, American writer and critic
November 28
December 2 - Lawrence Weiner , 79, American Conceptual artist
December 17 - Eve Babitz , 78, American visual artist and author
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December 25 - Wayne Thiebaud , 101, American painter
December 29 - Sabin Weiss , 97, Swiss-French photographer
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