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Overview of the events of 2014 in art
The year 2014 in art involves various significant events.
Events A series of annual editathons entitled art + Feminism commences. Held by members of the wikipedia community, they are undertaken in order to try to level off a gender disparity gap on the subject of the visual arts on the internet reference tool's site.[1]
January 22 – The value of Canada 's leading contemporary art award, the Sobey Art Award , is increased to a total of $100,000.[2] February 7 – The British National Gallery in London announces its first ever purchase of a major American painting, George Bellows ' Men of the Docks 1912 ).[3] February 12 – The discovery of two new portraits, presumed to depict William Shakespeare , the Wörlitz portrait and the Boaden portrait , is announced by German scholar Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel .[4] February 16 – Dominican-born Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero walks into the recently opened Pérez Art Museum Miami , in Miami, Florida and smashes one of twelve vases employed in an installation by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei . Caminero later tells the Miami New Times New York Times [5] Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn ".[6] April – The organization A Gathering of the Tribes and its founder and longtime executive director Steve Cannon are forced to relocate and its art gallery permanently shut when the occupancy agreement they had with the woman to whom the building had earlier been sold, Lorraine Zhang, ends. Simultaneously, a wall which retained some of an art-piece by David Hammons (which in a prior transaction had been sold to the art collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos after having been reproduced and the originality of the object transferred) is removed and relocated by the organization and replaced by another minus the previously pedigreed adornment.[7]
April 26 – The artist Judy Chicago , as part of her retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and in celebration of her 75th birthday, presents a fireworks display in the New York City borough of Brooklyn 's Prospect Park .[8] May - A section of "We the People" by the Vietnamese born Danish artist Danh Vo consisting of pieces of a disassembled replica scale model of the Statue of Liberty in the original sculpture's initial copper sheen is swiped by a thief as the work is laid out in City Hall Park in New York City for installation and then public exhibition.[9]
May 13 – A painting by Joan Mitchell of a bouquet entitled "Untitled (1960)" sells at auction during the post-war and contemporary art auction at Christie's in New York City for $11.9 million U.S., the highest price ever paid at an auction for a work of art by a woman, surpassing the $10.9 million paid for Berthe Morisot 's "After Lunch" (1881) the previous year.[10] [11] May 18 - The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York reopens in its new building, a 187 meter long facility designed by the Swiss architecture firm of Herzog and de Meuron .[12] June 17 - Infrared imagery of Pablo Picasso 's 1901 painting The Blue Room [13] June 27 – The Mauritshuis art museum is set to reopen in The Hague , Netherlands following a major renovation.July 4 - After having been closed in 2011 for expansion and renovation, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts reopens with the estimated $145 million additions of an exhibition and conference center designed by Tadao Ando and a reshaping of its existing galleries by Annabelle Selldorf .[14] [15] July 7 - "Odalisque in Red Pants" by Henri Mattisse (which was stolen off the wall at the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas in the capitol city of Venezuela and replaced with a forgery placed inside its former frame and was then recovered in a FBI sting operation in Miami, Florida ) arrives back in the South American nation after being returned by the U.S. government.[16] August 5 - Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies in the moat of the Tower of London (England) by Paul Cummins with Tom Piper , is unveiled to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I , being dismantled after November 11 after around 4 million people have visited.[17] August 9 - The Aspen Art Museum in Aspen , Colorado officially reopens to the public in a new structure designed by architect Shigeru Ban .[18] September 14 - A Statue of Amy Winehouse , created by Scott Eaton was unveiled at Stables Market , Camden Town in London to mark the 31st birthday of the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse , boosted by the Amy Winehouse Foundation . Winehouse was heavily associated with Camden Town and the bronze sculpture will remain in this location as an armorial to the star.[19] Bronze statue of Winehouse in Camden Town , London unveiled in September 2014 November 16 - The Harvard Art Museums redesigned by Renzo Piano reopen after a six-year hiatus.[20] November 19 - The Whitney Museum of American Art says goodbye to their Marcel Breuer Madison Avenue home with a final commissioned work in the form of a Will Pappenheimer Whitney themed digital drug trip piece entitled "Proxy, 5-WM2A" and the institution's director Adam D. Weinberg announces the opening of their new space by Renzo Piano in Manhattan 's meatpacking District adjoining the High Line on May 1, 2015.[21] [22] November 20 - A canvas by the American painter Georgia O'Keefe entitled "Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932)" sells for $44.1 million at Sotheby's in New York City, rendering it the highest known price ever paid for a work of art by a female artist and doubling and nearly tripling the $11.9 record previously paid only six months earlier for the Joan Mitchell work "Untitled" (1960).[23] Exhibitions February 1 – April 28 – "Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution" at the Louvre in Paris, France .[24] February 21 – September 1 – "Italian Futurism , 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[25] March 7 – May 25 – The Whitney Biennial 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City .[26] March 8 - June 7 - "Bjork " (curated by Klaus Biesenbach ) at MOMA in New York City .[27] March 10 -May 26 – "The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux " at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[28] March 19 – June 15 – "Veronese : Magnificence in Renaissance Venice" at the National Gallery in London .[29] June 7 - January 25, 2015 - Franz West at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts .[30] June 27 - October 14 - "Jeff Koons : A Retrospective" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.[31] October 4 - January 18, 2015 - "Robert Gober : The Heart is not a Metaphor" at MOMA in New York City.[32] October 10 - January 7, 2015 - "Zero : Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[33] October 12 - February 1, 2015 - "Café Dolly : Picabia , Schnabel , Willumsen at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale .[34] October 17 - December 21 - "Walter Robinson : Paintings and Other Indulgences at the university Galleries of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois (curated by Barry Blinderman).[35] [36] October 20 - February 16, 2015 - "Cubism : The Leonard A.Lauder Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[37] October 29 - February 1, 2015 (extended until February 11, 2015) - "Chris Ofili : Night and Day " at the New Museum in New York City.[38] December 3 - May 3, 2015 - "One Way: Peter Marino " at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida .[39] Works Mark Chatterly – "Blue Human Condition " in Adrian, Michigan .[40]
Alex Chinneck – A Pound of Flesh for 50p [41] Tony Matelli – "Sleepwalker ".[42] Josephine Pryde – The New Media Express in a Temporary Siding (Baby Wants To Ride) (installation).Peter Darvington, Boy Kong, Taylor McKimens , Tom Sanford and others – The Audubon Mural Project inspired by John James Audubon 's The Birds of America Audubon Society 's campaign to save them) in Harlem , New York City (ongoing).[43] [44]
Emma Sulkowicz – Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) Columbia University in New York City .Kara Walker – "A Subtlety" or "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn , New York , USA.[45] Ken Washington – Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. , in MacGregor Park, Houston, Texas, USA.[46] Awards This section is empty. You can help by
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Deaths January 2 – R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. , 86, American banker, art collector and founder of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art January 8 – Madeline Gins , 72, American artist, architect and poet.January 13 – Gary Grimshaw , 67, American graphic rock concert poster artist.January 16 – Douglas Davis , 80, American art critic and artistJanuary 25 – Morrie Turner , 90, American cartoonist (Wee Pals January 28
February 1 – René Ricard , 67, American poet, artist and art criticFebruary 2 – J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere , 83, Nigerian photographerFebruary 3 – Joan Mondale , 83, American visual arts advocate and Second Lady of the United States (1977–1981)February 8
February 10 – Olga Jevrić , 91, Serbian sculptorFebruary 13 – Rose Finn-Kelcey , 68, English performance and installation artistFebruary 14 – Patrick Scott , 93, Irish artistFebruary 23 – Carla Accardi , 89, Italian painterFebruary 24 – Carlos Páez Vilaró , 90, Uruguayan artistFebruary 25 – Martin E. Sullivan , 70, American museum director (National Portrait Gallery and Heard Museum )February 26 – Sorel Etrog , 80, Canadian sculptorFebruary 27 – Jan Hoet , 77, Belgian art critic and curatorFebruary 28 – Gib Singleton , 78, American sculptorMarch 4
March 16 – Markus Brüderlin , 55, Swiss art historian and curatorMarch 18 – Ara Shiraz , 72, Armenian sculptor and architectMarch 27 – Gina Pellón , 87, expatriate Cuban painter living in FranceMarch 30 - Lyman Kipp , 84, American sculptorApril 5 – Alan Davie , 93, British painterApril 6 – Leee Black Childers , 68, American punk rock and art photographerApril 7 – George Dureau , 83, American painter and photographerMay 6
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May 10 – Patrick Woodroffe , 73, English painter and illustratorMay 12 – H. R. Giger , 74, Swiss Academy Award -winning surrealist artistMay 20 – Robyn Denny , 83, British abstract painterMay 27 – Massimo Vignelli , 83, Italian graphic designer (New York City Subway map , American Airlines )June 6 – Eric Hill , 86, English-American author and illustratorJune 9 – Kim Heungsou , 94, Korean painterJune 14 – Ultra Violet , 78, French-American artistJune 17 - Stanley Marsh 3 , 76, American artist and philanthropist, patron of Cadillac Ranch June 22 - Jennifer Wynne Reeves , 51, American painterJuly 10 - On Kawara , 81, Japanese-born American conceptual artistJuly 12 - Nestor Basterretxea , 90, Spanish Basque artistJuly 17 - Otto Piene , 86, German artistJuly 20 - Constantin Lucaci , 91, Romanian sculptorJuly 25 - Richard Larter , 85, English-born Australian pop artist.July 27 - Sam Hunter , 91 American Art historianJuly 30 - Harun Farocki , 70, German filmmaker whose work was included in the Carnegie International [47] Documenta [48] July 31 - King Robbo , English underground graffiti artistAugust 5 - Edward Leffingwell , 72, American art critic, curatorAugust 17 - Ger van Elk , 73, Dutch artistAugust 20 - Sava Stojkov , 89, Serbian painterAugust 22 - Jean Sutherland Boggs , 92, Canadian first female museum director of the National Gallery of Canada (1966-1976) and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1978-1982)August 27 - Marjorie Strider , 83, American painter and sculptorSeptember 29 - Luis Nishizawa , 96, Mexican painterOctober 26 - David Armstrong , 60, American photographerNovember 8 - Hannes Hegen , 89, German illustrator and cartoonistNovember 15 - Jack Bridger Chalker , 96, English painter and academicNovember 23 - Lewis Baltz , 69, American visual artist and photographerNovember 27 - Wynn Chamberlain , 87, American artist, filmmaker and authorDecember 6 - Renato Mambor , 78, Italian painterDecember 9 - Jane Freilicher , 90, American painterDecember 21 - Jane Bown , 89, English portrait photographerReferences
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