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Overview of the events of 2009 in art
Overview of the events of 2009 in art
The year 2009 in art involves some significant events.
Events May 31 – Jaume Plensa 's concrete sculpture Dream Sutton, St Helens , England .[1] September 9 – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art , Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl , opens.September 24 – René Magritte 's painting Olympia (a nude portrait of his wife) is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels , by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about $1.1 million.[2] [3] October 16 – As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism , the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , premieres a concert at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art whereby it invited Luciano Chessa to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Luigi Russolo 's Intonarumori instruments. This project offers the set of 16 original intonarumori (8 noise families of 1–3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. These intonarumori are physically built by luthier Keith Cary in Winters, California, under Chessa's direction and scientific supervision[4] October 29 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts Rob Pruitt 's First Annual Art Awards in New York.[5] November 14 – Nottingham Contemporary opens as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham, a new gallery in Nottingham , England, designed by Caruso St John .December 31 — Edgar Degas 's 1877 pastel Les Choristes Musée Cantini in Marseille; it will be found in the luggage compartment of a bus outside Paris in 2018.Exhibitions Works Banksy – Devolved Parliament [6] Bruce Conkle – Burls Will Be Burls Douglas Coupland – Digital Orca Ren Jun – Freezing Water Number 7
Michihiro Kosuge – Continuation
Yue Minjun – A-maze-ing Laughter Galvarino Ponce Morel – Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Washington, D.C.)
Willy Wang – Statue of Confucius (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
Patti Warashina – City Reflections Statue of Eleftherios Venizelos (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)Statue of Lucille Ball (original sculpture, Celoron, New York)Awards Deaths January 10 – Coosje van Bruggen , 66, wife and collaborator of sculptor Claes Oldenburg January 16 – Andrew Wyeth , 91, American painterJanuary 27 – Blair Lent , 79, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)February 2 – Howard Kanovitz , 79, American painterFebruary 3 - Max Neuhaus , 69, American sound installation artist, and composerMarch 8 – Ernest Trova , 82, American sculptorApril 21 – Vivian Maier , 83, American street photographerApril 22 – Jack Cardiff , 94, English cinematographerMay 31 – Frederick Hammersley , 90, American painterJune 4 – Robert Colescott , 83, American painterJune 16 – Frank Herbert Mason , 88, American painter and teacherJuly 13 – Dash Snow , 27, American artistJuly 26 – Merce Cunningham , 90, American dancer, choreographer who worked closely with Robert Rauschenberg and other visual artists.July 28 – Tony Rosenthal , 94, American sculptorAugust 26 – Hyman Bloom , 96, American painterAugust 31 – Barry Flanagan , 68, English sculptorSeptember 5 – Richard Merkin , 70, American painter, illustratorOctober 1 – Charles Seliger , 83, American painterOctober 11 – Abigail McLellan , 40, Scottish painterOctober 18 – Nancy Spero , 83, American artistOctober 27 – Roy DeCarava , 90, American artist, photographerNovember 11 – Irving Kriesberg , 90, American painterNovember 17 – John Craxton , 87, English painterNovember 18 – Jeanne-Claude , 74, French artistNovember 21 – Kossa Bokchan , 66, Serbian artistNovember 26 – Peter Forakis , 82 American sculptorDecember 10 – Thomas Hoving , 78, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art December 21 – Craigie Aitchison , 83, Scottish painterUndated – Olja Ivanjicki , Serbian painter (b. 1931 ) References 
