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Overview of the events of 2013 in art
The year 2013 in art involves some significant events.
Events
March 9 – The identification of Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter Anthony van Dyck is announced. It is in the collection of the Bowes Museum , County Durham , England.[ 1] Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter by Anthony van Dyck before and after restoration. The version on the left was the photograph originally posted to the Your Paintings website.March 18 – The identification of Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet 1635 by Rembrandt is announced. Hanging in Buckland Abbey , Devon , England, it is the only painting by this artist in the collection of the British National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty to whom it was gifted in 2010.[ 2] April – The philanthropist and art collector Leonard Lauder promises for donation his important collection of Cubist works by artists including Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque and Juan Gris estimated to be valued at over one billion US dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York .[ 3]
April 13 – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is re-opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands after a ten-year refurbishment.[ 4] May – Extension to Lenbachhaus art museum, designed by Foster and Partners , is opened in Munich .
May 9 – Charles Ray 's sculpture "Boy with Frog " is removed by the city of Venice from where it stood before the Punta della Dogana overlooking where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal . The work which had been commissioned by Francois-Henri Pinault to stand outside the aforementioned historic building which serves as an annex to his main museum housed in the Palazzo Grassi was replaced by a contemporary copy of a streetlamp which once stood at the same spot.[ 5] July–October – Gromit Unleashed in Bristol , England.[ 6]
July 25 – Katharina Fritsch 's sculpture Hahn/Cock is unveiled on the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square , London.[ 7] October - The English street artist Banksy stages an entire month of daily public instillations all over New York City entitled "Better Out Than In ".[ 8] Flowers left at Banksy's depiction of the former World Trade Center in TriBeCa October 21 - Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin resigns citing personal reasons.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] November 3 – The magazine Focus German customs authorities in an apartment in Schwabing , Munich . Seized from the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt , son of 1930s and later degenerate art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt , the cache includes works by Marc Chagall , Henri Matisse , Otto Dix and others.[ 12] November 12 – The triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud Francis Bacon sells for US$ Christie's New York auction house, becoming the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction .[ 13] Triptych 1976 [ 14] November 19 – Museo Júmex in Mexico City , designed by David Chipperfield , is opened to show part of the contemporary art Colección Júmex .November 20 - The "Graffiti Mecca" 5Pointz on the sides of a twentieth century warehouse in Long Island City , Queens, New York is whitewashed by a team of painters in the employ of the site's new developers.[ 15] November 25 – "The Church of Vezzoli", the PS1 , New York City leg of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli 's three part retrospective, "The Trinity", is cancelled after the church he arranged to buy in the town of Montegiordano for deployment in the exhibition is remanded in Italy prior to its leaving the country for the United States.[ 16] December 4 – Pérez Art Museum Miami , designed by Herzog & de Meuron , is opened.[ 17] December 12 - From December 12, 2013 until March 16, 2014 the Dying Gaul is put on display in the main rotunda of the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. . This temporary tenure marks the first time the antiquity has left Italy since it was returned in the second decade of the nineteenth century after Napoleon brought it to the Louvre in 1797 as a plunder of war.
Exhibitions
February 1 until May 6 – "Carl Andre : Mass & Matter" at the Turner Contemporary , Margate , England .[ 18] February 3 until May 9 – "Llyn Foulkes " at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California .[ 19] February 15 until May 8 – "Gutai : Splendid Playground" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City , New York .[ 20] March 5 until May 27 – "Street" by James Nares at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City[ 21] March 16 until June 16 – Karl Stirner "Transformations II: Works in Steel" at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania [ 22] March 23 - August 11 - "David Bowie is" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , England.[ 23] May 3 until September 29 – "Jack Goldstein x 10,000" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York.[ 24] May 12 until October 6 – "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes , 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music" at the National Gallery of Art , in Washington D.C .[ 25] May 23 until October 6 – "Hopper Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, New York.[ 26] May 29 until November 24 – "Galleria Vezzoli" by Francesco Vezzoli at MAXXI in Rome, Italy .[ 27] June 1 until October 27 – Sir Anthony Caro at the Museo Correr , Venice, Italy .[ 28] June 21 until September 25 – "James Turrell : Video Transcript at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, New York.[ 29] June 22 until September 23 - "Richard Diebenkorn : The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California .[ 30] August 3 until November 3 – Peter Doig : "No Foreign Lands" at the Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh .[ 31] August 10 until November 3 – "Soundings: A Contemporary Score", at the Museum of Modern Art , New York City .[ 32] August 17 - January 5, 2014 - "Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk " at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California .[ 33] September 22 until January 4, 2014 – "Milloff's Melville " at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut [ 34] September 26 until January 4, 2014 – "Robert Indiana : Beyond LOVE " at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, New York.[ 35] September 28 , 2013 until January 6, 2014 – "The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris" at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy [ 36] October 2 until January 14, 2014 – "Chris Burden : Extreme Measures" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, New York.[ 37] October 4 until January 26, 2014 – "Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction" at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut .[ 38] October 5 until March 16, 2014 – The Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .[ 39] October 23 until March - “Damage Control: Art and Destruction SINCE 1950" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C October 24 until May 26, 2014 - Christopher Wool at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, New York.[ 40] November 7 until February 2 - ""And Materials and Money in Crisis" (curated by Richard Birkett in dialogue with Sam Lewitt ) at MOMUK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) Vienna, Austria .[ 41] December 3 - February 23, 2014 - "Phyllida Barlow :HOARD" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida .[ 42]
Works
A test of The Bay Lights on 24 January 2013 Ashes to Answers Barometer (sculpture)Heart Beacon Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Anahtar)March 5 – The Bay Lights site-specific monumental light sculpture and art installation on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge designed by light artist Leo Villareal , is inaugurated.[ 43] March 7 – Peter Fischli & David Weiss 's Rock on Top of Another Rock Serpentine Galleries in London.[ 44] April – The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II , official painted portrait of The Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee , painted by Australian artist Ralph Heimans is shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra , Australia .[ 45]
Alex Chinneck 's From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes Margate and Under the Weather But Over the Moon Blackfriars Road , London, England.
Awards
Deaths
January 1 – Michael Patrick Cronan , 61, American graphic designer and artistJanuary 3 – Ted Godwin , 79, Canadian painterJanuary 6 – Ruth Carter Stevenson , 89, American museum founderJanuary 7 – Ada Louise Huxtable , 91, American architecture critic (The New York Times )January 16 – Burhan Doğançay , 83, Turkish artistJanuary 19 – Andrée Putman 87, French interior and product designerJanuary 25 – Oleg Vassiliev , 81, Russian painterJanuary 26 – Shozo Shimamoto , 85, Japanese artistJanuary 28
Oldřich Kulhánek , 72, Czech painter and graphic designer, designer of the present day Czech banknotes and postage stampsCeija Stojka , 79, Austrian-Romanian author and painter (b. 1933)January 30 – Roger Raveel , 91, Belgian painterFebruary 6 – Alden Mason , 93, American artistFebruary 9 –
February 24 – Ralph Hotere , 81, New Zealand artistFebruary 26
March 2 – Thomas McEvilley , 73, American art critic and academicMarch 9 – Merton Simpson , 84, American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collectorMarch 12 – Ganesh Pyne , 76, Indian painterMarch 23 - Carlos Villa , 76, Filipino American painterMarch 29 – Reginald Gray , 82, Irish painterApril 1 – Pavel 183 , 29, Russian graffiti street artist.April 9 –
April 19 – Storm Thorgerson , 69, British graphic designer (The Dark Side of the Moon album cover)April 30 – Roberto Chabet , 76, Filipino artistMay 2 – Charles Banks Wilson , 94, American painterMay 8 – Taylor Mead , 88, Warhol Superstar , actor, New York City art scene regular and poetMay 15 – Thomas M. Messer , 93, Czech born American director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1961–1988)May 21 – Fred Mitchell , 89, American painterMay 22 – Wayne F. Miller , 94, American photographerMay 24 – Gotthard Graubner , 82, German painterMay 26 – Otto Muehl , 87, Austrian artistJune 1 – Dorothy Napangardi , 60s, Australian indigenous artistJune 8 – Arturo Vega , 65, Mexican-born American punk graphic designer (logo for The Ramones ).June 21 – Per Ung , 80, Norwegian sculptorJune 26 – Sarah Charlesworth , 66, American conceptual artist, photographer
July 6 – John B. Hightower , 80, American museum directorJuly 16 – Alex Colville , 92, Canadian painterJuly 21 – Ronnie Cutrone , 65, American artistJuly 25 –
August 5 – Ruth Asawa , 87, Japanese American sculptorAugust 10 – Allan Sekula , 62, American artistAugust 17 –Stephen Antonakos , 86, Greek-born American sculptorAugust 28 -
August 29 – Jack Beal , 82, American painterOctober 8 – Ellen Lanyon 87, American painterOctober 12 – Ulf Linde , 84, Swedish art critic, writer, museum director and member of the Swedish Academy October 14 – Frank Moore , 67, American performance artistOctober 23 – Sir Anthony Caro , 89, British sculptorOctober 24 - Deborah Turbeville , 81, American fashion photographerOctober 25 – Arthur Danto , 89, American art criticOctober 27 – Lou Reed , 71, (Art) Rock musician (The Velvet Underground managed by Andy Warhol ) and photographerNovember 3 – Leonard Long , 102, Australian painterNovember 12 – Kurt Trampedach , 70, Danish painter and sculptorNovember 23 -Peter B. Lewis , 80, American businessman and arts patron (the Guggenheim Museum and the Cleveland museum of art )December 1 – Martin Sharp , 71, Australian artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and film-makerDecember 3 – Sacha Sosno , 76, French sculptor and painterDecember 5 – Günther Förg , 61, German artist, German painter and sculptorDecember 6 – Peeter Mudist , 71, Estonian painterDecember 13 – Harvey Littleton , 91, American glass artistDecember 14 –
December 23 -
December 24 - Jean Rustin , 85, French painter
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