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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 Palm Springs Art Museum opens a satellite museum in Palm Desert [ 3]
March – The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings opens[ 4]
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 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 Edmund Blair Leighton is sold to a private collector through Sotheby's in London.[ 8] May 11 – ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower (114.5 m (376 ft) tall) in Olympic Park, London , designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond and Ushida Findlay Architects , unveiled[ 9] 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 [ 11] July 27
August 12 – Damien Hirst 's representation of the British Union Flag forms the arena centrepiece for the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London.[ 14] Es Devlin is designer for the ceremony[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] September 21 – Islamic art gallery at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, designed by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti , opens[ 1] [ 19] September 23 – Renovation and new wing for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten , opened to public[ 1] [ 20] September 27 – The "Isleworth Mona Lisa [ 21] 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)[ 22] [ 23]
December 11 – Le Louvre-Lens , a branch museum of the Musée du Louvre , designed by SANAA , opens in the French city of Lens, Pas-de-Calais , a former centre of coal mining[ 24]
Exhibitions
To January 9 – "de Kooning : A Retrospective" at the Museum of Modern Art , New York [ 25]
To February 5 – "Leonardo da Vinci , Painter at the Court of Milan" at the National Gallery , London[ 26]
To February 12 – "Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed" at the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven, Connecticut (then at the Royal Academy , London from March 10 to June 10 )
January 21 until April 9 – "David Hockney : A Bigger Picture" at the Royal Academy, London[ 27] February 1 until May 6 – "Van Gogh Up Close" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art [ 28] February 9 until May 27 – "Lucian Freud Portraits" at the National Portrait Gallery, London [ 29] February 15 until July 15 – "Picasso & Modern British Art" at Tate Britain , London (then at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh from August 4 until November 4 )[ 30] March 13 until July 1 – "Degas et le Nu" at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris [ 31] March 14 until June 5 – "Turner Inspired in the Light of Claude " at the National Gallery, London[ 32] From March 15 – "Rodin to Now: Modern Sculpture" at the Palm Springs Art Museum , Palm Desert [ 3]
April 4 until September 9 – "Damien Hirst " at Tate Modern , London[ 33] From April 7 until July 29 - "Fracture: Daido Moriyama " at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , curated by Edward Robinson.[ 34]
From June 9 until September 2 – Picturing the South , photographs by Martin Parr , Kael Alford, and Shane Lavalette [ 35]
From June 28 until October 14 – "Edvard Munch : The Modern Eye" at Tate Modern, London[ 36]
From August 18 – "India: Art Now" at the Arken Museum of Modern Art , Copenhagen [ 37]
From September 9 – "Arte Povera : The Great Awakening" at the Kunstmuseum Basel [ 37]
From September 12 – "Pre-Raphaelites : Victorian Avant-Garde" at Tate Britain, London[ 38]
From September 15 until December 9 – "Bronze" at the Royal Academy, London[ 37]
From September 16 – "Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[ 39]
From September 18 – "Regarding Warhol : Sixty Artists, Fifty Years" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York[ 37]
From September 20 until November 18 – "Discovering Columbus " by Tatzu Nishi at Columbus Circle in New York City, New York [ 40]
From September 28 – "Paul Gauguin : The Prints" at the Kunsthaus Zürich [ 37]
From October 5 – "Picasso Black and White" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York[ 37]
From October 10 – "Richard Hamilton : The Late Works" at the National Gallery, London[ 37]
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
From November 18 – "Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde" at the Museum of Modern Art New York City, New York[ 41]
From December 4 – "Matisse: In Search of True Painting" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[ 42]
Works
Awards
Deaths
January 1
January 3 – Winifred Milius Lubell , 97, American illustrator and writerJanuary 4 – Eve Arnold , 99, American photographerJanuary 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 painterFebruary 18 – Matt Lamb , 79, American painterFebruary 24 – Kenneth Price , 77, American ceramicist, sculptorMarch 8 – Minoru Mori , 77, Japanese founder of the Mori Art Museum March 16 – Anita Steckel , 82, American feminist artistMarch 27 – Hilton Kramer , 84, American art criticApril 2 – Elizabeth Catlett , 96, American born Mexican sculptor and printmakerApril 6 – Thomas Kinkade , 54, American painterApril 9
April 12 – John Weaver , 92, Canadian sculptorApril 25 - Louis le Brocquy , 95, Irish painterApril 27 – David Weiss (Fischli & Weiss), 65, Swiss artistMay 2 - Bram Bogart , 90, Dutch born Belgian painterMay 11 – Tony DeZuniga , 79, Filipino illustratorMay 15 – George Wyllie , 90, Scottish artistMay 30 – Barton Lidice Beneš , 69, American artistJune 9 – Paul Jenkins , 88, American painterJune 10 – Georges Mathieu , 91, French painterJune 20 – LeRoy Neiman , 91, American painterJune 22 – Mary Fedden , 96, British painterJune 28 – Ivan Karp , 86, American art dealer July 22 – Herbert Vogel , 89, American art collectorJuly 25 – Franz West , 65, Austrian painter and sculptorJuly 26 – Karl Benjamin , 86, American painterJuly 28 – Adam Cullen , 46, Australian painterAugust 6 – Robert Hughes , 74, Australian-born art criticAugust 9 – Jan Sawka , 65, Polish-born American artist and architectAugust 21 – Hans Josephsohn , 92, German-born Swiss sculptorSeptember 8 – Mario Armond Zamparelli , 81, American artist and designerSeptember 11 – Tony Goldman , 68, American real estate developer, art impresario and preservationistSeptember 14 – Don Binney , 72, New Zealand painterSeptember 29 – Mark Wiener , 61, American painterOctober 6 – Raoul De Keyser , Belgian painterOctober 11 – Edgar Negret , 92, Colombian sculptorOctober 15 - Michael Asher , 69, American conceptual artistOctober 30 – Lebbeus Woods , 72, American artist and architectNovember 13 – Will Barnet , 101, American painterNovember 16 – William Turnbull , 90, Scottish artistNovember 17 – Arnaud Maggs , 86, Canadian artist and photographerDecember 15 – Jeffrey Potter , 94, writer, authored a biography of Jackson Pollock December 20 – Robert Juniper , 83, Australian artistDecember 29 – Edward Meneeley , 85, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
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