2016 in art
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The year 2016 in art involves various significant events.
Events
- March - The Met Breuer opens in the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[1]
The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in 2016. It is now known as the Met Breuer.
- July 28 - The re-discovery of Albrecht Dürer's engraving Mary with Infant Jesus previously considered lost since World War II is reported.[2] The engraving was noticed in good condition at a flea market in Sarrebourg and returned to Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.[2]
- September 30 - The recovery of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, stolen in 2002, is announced.[3]
Exhibitions
- January 20 until April 17 - "In the Lion's Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire" at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.[4]
- February 5 until April 27 - Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[5]
- February 18 until May 15 - "O'Keefe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.[6]
- February 18 until June 13 - "Munch and Expressionism" at the Neue Galerie in New York City.[7]
- March 18 until September 4 - "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer in New York City.[8]
- March 2 until June 5 - "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture" at the Frick collection in New York City.[9]
- March 23 until July 10 - "Umberto Boccioni: Genio and Memoria (Genius and Memory)" at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy.[10]
- March 26 until February 1, 2017 - "Alex Da Corte: Free Roses"at Mass MOCA in Williamstown, Massachusetts.[11]
- April 27 until June 19 - "Andra Ursuta: Alps" at the New Museum in New York City.[12]
- May 27 until September 7 - "Moholy-Nagy: Future Present" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[13]
- June 10 until September 25 - "Stuart Davis: In Full Swing" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.[14]
- September 1 until October 23 - Bjork Digital at Somerset House in London.[15]
- September 2 until January 8, 2017 - "Hans Memling: Portraiture, Piety, and a Reunited Altarpiece at the Morgan Library in New York City.[16]
- September 16 until January 2, 2017 - "Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[17]
- September 30 until January 29, 2017 - "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..[18][19]
- October 7 until January 16, 2017 - "Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[20]
- October 19 until February 20, 2017 - "Max Beckmann in New York" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[21]
Works
- Martin Puryear - "Big Bling".[22]
- Carsten Holler - Slide addition to Anish Kapoor's Arcelormittal Orbit at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England.[23]
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Floating Piers on Lake Iseo near Brescia, Italy.[24][25]
The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo near Brescia, Italy - Carolyn Palmer - Lucille Ball (sculpture) - second and permanent replacement version, in Celoron, New York.[26]
- Pikachu (sculpture), New Orleans, Louisiana[27]
Deaths
- January 2 - Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor
- January 6 - Uche Okeke, 83, Nigerian artist
- January 10
- David Bowie, 69, British singer-songwriter, actor, visual artist and art collector
- Bård Breivik, 67, Norwegian sculptor [28]
- Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch born Venezuelan sculptor.
- January 13 - Lois Weisberg, 90, Cultural affairs commissioner of Chicago (1988-2011)
- January 14 - Sergio Vacchi, 90, Italian painter
- January 16 - Joannis Avramidis, 93, Georgian-born Austrian sculptor
- January 17
- Melvin Day, 92, New Zealand artist
- Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer
- January 25 - Thornton Dial, 87, American artist
- February 11 - Charles Garabedian, 92, Armenian American painter
- February 12 – Sossen Krohg, 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director[29]
- February 16 - Eugenio Carmi, 95. Italian painter and sculptor
- February 18 - Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor
- March 3 - Tome Serafimovski, 80, Macedonian sculptor
- March 4 - Pirro Cuniberti, 92, Italian artist
- March 5
- Robert Redbird, 76, Native American artist
- Panayiotis Tetsis, 91, Greek painter
- March 10 - Anita Brookner, 87, British art historian and novelist
- March 11 - Rómulo Macció, 84, Argentine painter
- March 19 - Bob Adelman, 85, American photographer
- March 23 - Arie Smit, 99, Dutch-born Indonesian painter
- March 31 - Zaha Hadid, 65, Iraqi born British architect
- April 1 - André Villers, 85, French photographer
- April 2 - Rick Bartow, 69, Native American artist
- April 3 - Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist
- April 11 - Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patroness
- April 15
- A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter
- Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer (death announced on this date)
- April 16 - Richard Smith, 84, British painter
- April 24
- Inge King, 100, German born Australian sculptor
- George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist
- April 28 - Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer
- April 30 - Marisol Escobar, 85, French born American sculptor of Venezuelan descent
- May 2
- Basil Blackshaw, 83-84, Northern Irish artist
- Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist
- May 4 - Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist "Non violence", (death announced on this date)
- May 8 - Louisa Chase, 65, American painter
- May 10 - François Morellet, 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist
- May 19 - Hugh Honour, 88, British art historian
- June 4 - Piero Leddi, 85, Italian painter
- June 16
- Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic
- Giuseppe Spagnulo, 79, Italian sculptor
- June 19 - Nicolás García Uriburu, 78, Argentine artist and landscape architect
- June 21 - Kenworth Moffett, 81, American art curator (first curator of contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts), museum director (Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale) and writer
- June 24 - Tony Feher, 60. American sculptor
- June 25 -
- Bill Cunningham, 87, American photographer
- Ben Patterson, 82, American Fluxus artist, musician
- July 15 - Janez Bernik, 82, Slovenian painter
- July 18
- Billy Name, 76, American photographer
- Mladen Stilinović, 69, Croatian artist
- July 22 -
- Bernard Dufour, 93, French painter
- Evin Nolan, 86, Irish painter
- July 23 - S.H. Raza, 94, Indian artist
- August 31 - Nathan Lyons, 86, American photographer
- September 13 - Gérard Rondeau, 63, French photographer
- September 18 - Hassan Sharif, 65, Emerati artist
- September 19 - Annie Pootoogook, 47, Canadian Inuit artist
- September 29 - Shirley Jaffe, 93, American painter and sculptor
- September 30 - Frederic C. Hamilton, 89, American oilman and arts philanthropist (Denver Museum of Art)
- October 1 - Daphne Odjig, 97, Canadian First Nations artist
- October 2
- Walter Darby Bannard, 82, American painter
- Andrew Vicari, 84, British painter
- October 4
- Yusuf Arakkal, 70, Indian painter
- Elaine Lustig Cohen, 89, American graphic designer
- October 8 - Klaus Kertess, 76, American curator and gallerist
- October 12 - David Antin, 84, American poet, critic and performance artist
- October 31 - Silvio Gazzaniga, 95, Italian sculptor (FIFA World Cup Trophy)
- November 3 - Misha Brusilovsky, 85, Russian artist
- November 10 - Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian poet, songwriter and artist
- November 14
- Diana Balmori, 84, American landscape designer
- Marti Friedlander, 88, New Zealand photographer
- November 28 - William Christenberry. 80, American artist
- December 1 - Ousmane Sow, 81, Senegalese Sulptor
References
- ↑ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/arts/music/vijay-iyer-and-mark-turner-help-open-the-met-breuer.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/
- 1 2 "Flea Market Find: Alsatian Collector Returns Long Lost Dürer Engraving to Stuttgart Staatsgalerie". Louise Blouin Media. July 28, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Two stolen Van Gogh paintings recovered after 14 years". Van Gogh Museum. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ↑ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/arts/design/the-artist-who-dared-to-paint-irelands-great-famine.html?referer=http://ighm.org/
- ↑ https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/peter-fischli-david-weiss-how-to-work-better
- ↑ http://www.norton.org/exhibitions
- ↑ http://www.neuegalerie.org/content/munch-and-expressionism-0
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/unfinished
- ↑ http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/van_dyck#sthash.Kun5OgD8.dpuf
- ↑ http://www.milanmuseumguide.com/umberto-boccioni-genio-memoria/
- ↑ https://www.artsy.net/show/mass-moca-alex-da-corte-free-roses
- ↑ http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/andra-ursuta-alps
- ↑ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
- ↑ http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/StuartDavis
- ↑ https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/bjork-digital
- ↑ http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/hans-memling
- ↑ http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CarmenHerrera
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/design/virginia-dwan-a-jet-age-medici-gets-her-due.html?action=click&contentCollection=Art%20%26%20Design&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
- ↑ http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2016/from-los-angeles-to-new-york-dwan-gallery.html
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/valentin-de-boulogne
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/max-beckmann
- ↑ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/07/artseen/martin-puryear-big-bling
- ↑ https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-att-us&source=android-browser&q=holler+slide+opwning+kapooe
- ↑ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/inside-story-christo-floating-piers-180959072/
- ↑ http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a6826/christo-floating-piers/
- ↑ http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Lucille-Ball-Scary-Statue-Replaced-With-A-9126773.php
- ↑ http://www.cnet.com/news/unofficial-pikachu-pokemonument-statue-erected-in-new-orleans/
- ↑ Bård Breivik er død (Norwegian)
- ↑ Dahl, Ingvill Dybfest (2016-02-12). "Sossen Krohg er død". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-02-19.
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