2018 in art

The year 2018 in art involves various significant events.

Events

• April - The Terrus museum at Elne in the south of France, dedicated to paintings by Étienne Terrus, discovers that half its collection, 82 works, is counterfeit.^[1]
• May - The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller is auctioned off in three sales at Christie's, Rockefeller Center, New York City. On the evening of May 8th the first night of the sale Young Girl with a Flower Basket (oil on canvas, 1905) by Pablo Picasso is sold for $US115 million.^[2] along with world record prices for works by Claude Monet (Nymphéas en fleur 1914-1917 $84.7 million) and Henri Matisse (Odalisque couchée aux magnolias 1923 $80.7 million), all contributing to a new world record for a single collection at auction of $832.6 million, the record previously having been held by the $484 million total achieved for the art collection of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent.^[3][4]
• May 25 - Second attack on Ilya Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, by an inebriated visitor.
• June 15 - Second major fire at Glasgow School of Art.^[5]
• July - A 1967 painting, "Untitled" by Robert Motherwell missing for more than forty years is returned after apparently having been stolen by a ring of art thieves.^[6]
• October 5 - A version of Banksy's artwork Balloon Girl is auctioned at Sotheby's in London for £1,042,000. Moments after the closing bid, the artwork partially shreds itself by means of a paper shredder hidden in the frame.^[7]

Exhibitions

• February 9 until May 9 - "Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[8]
• February 13 until May 27 - "Songs for Sabotage" The fourth New Museum Triennial curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Alex Gartenfeld at the New Museum in New York City.^[9]
• February 15 until May 27 - "The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World" at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and then June 23 until September 23 at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Norwich, England.^[10]
• March 2 until June 10 - "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.^[11]
• May 12 until September 9 – "Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.^[12]
• May 23 until September 23 - "Canova's George Washington" at the Frick Collection in New York City curated by Xavier Solomon and Mario Guderzo then travels to La Gyspotheca e Museo Antoni Canova in Possagno, Italy from November 10 to April 22, 2019.^[13]
• June 6 - September 12 - "Giacometti" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[14]
• June 9 until September 3 - "Women Artists in Paris, 1850 - 1900" at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.^[15]
• September 6 until December 8 - "NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960" at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University in New York City.^[16]
• September 22 until January 2, 2019 - "Armenia!" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[17]

Works

• Banksy - Bowery Mural in New York City.^[18]
• Phyllida Barlow - "Prop" commissioned for instillation along the High Line in Manhattan, New York City.^[19]
• Chen Dongfang - "The Song of Dragon and Flowers" on Doyers Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City.^[20]
• Tristan Eaton - "Intermission" on the Bowery Mural wall in Manhattan, New York City.^[21]
• Tracey Emin - "I Want My Time With You", light installation at St Pancras railway station, London.
• Ellsworth Kelly - "Austin" conceived and designed in 2015 completed and opened to the public in 2018 at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas.^[22]
• James and Karla Murray - "Moms-and-Pops of the L.E.S." installed in Seward Park on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City.^[23]
• Yoko Ono - "Sky" (mosaics) inside the subway station at 72nd street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York City.^[24][25]
• Jennifer Steinkamp - "Blind Eye" created for and exnibited at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.^[26]
• Gillian Wearing - Statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London.^[27]

Deaths

• January 1 - Mauro Staccioli, 80, Italian sculptor
• January 2 - Betty Woodman, 87, American ceramic artist
• January 4 - Vladimir Yankilevsky, 79, Russian artist
• January 5 - Carlo Pedretti, 89, Italian historian (Leonardo da Vinci)
• January 8 - Kynaston McShine, 82, American museum curator
• January 15 - William Scharf, 90, American artist
• January 17 - Ed Moses, 91, American artist
• January 21 - Jack Whitten, 78, American artist
• January 28 - Robert Pincus-Witten, 82, American art critic, curator and art historian
• February 1 - Sonia Gechtoff, 91, American artist
• February 12 - Jef Geys, 83, Belgian partist
• February 18 -
  • Peggy Cooper Cafritz, 70, American art collector and philanthropist
  • Elmar Rojas, 75, Guatemalan artist
• February 19 - Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian
• March 2 - Gillo Dorfles, 107, Italian art critic, art historian and painter
• March 21 - Frank Gaylord, 93, American sculptor ("The Column" sculptural tableaux part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.)
• February 24 - Getulio Alviani, 78, Italian painter
• March 6 - Ferdousi Priyabhashini, 70, Bangladeshi sculptor
• March 24 - Hidetoshi Nagasawa, 77, Japanese sculptor and architect
• April 11 - Gillian Ayres, 88, English painter
• April 17 - Marcia Hafif, 89, American painter
• April 24 - Hariton Pushwagner, 77, Norwegian Pop artist
• April 28 - Laura Aguilar, 58, American photographer
• April 30 - Geneviève Claisse, 82, French painter
• May 9 - Per Kirkeby, 79, Danish artist
• May 14 - Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and art critic (The Painted Word)
• May 19 - Robert Indiana, 89, American artist
• May 20 - Bill Gold, 97, American film poster artist
• May 26 - Alan Bean, 86, American astronaut and painter
• June 1 - Malcolm Morley, 86, British painter
• June 2 - Irving Sandler, 92, American art historian
• June 7 - Michaele Vollbracht, 70, American illustrator and designer
• June 13 - Milan Mrkusich, 93, New Zealand artist and designer
• June 16 - Darío Villalba, 79, Spanish painter and photographer.
• June 25 - David Goldblatt, 87, South African photographer (death announced on this date)
• June 26 - Sabina Ott, 62, American artist
• July 1 - Armando, 88, Dutch painter, sculptor and writer
• July 23 - Oksana Shachko, 31 Ukranian arist and activist (FEMEN)
• July 25 - Giancarlo Vitali, 88, Italian painter and engraver
• August 1 - Cui Xiuwen, 47 or 48, Chinese artist
• August 20 - Charles Blackman, 90, Australian painter
• August 24 - Krishna Reddy, 93, Indian artist
• August 27 - Mirka Mora, 90, French-born Australian artist and cultural figure
• August 28 - Silvano Campeggi, 95, Italian film poster designer (Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• August 30 - Paul Taylor, 88, American choreograher and artistic collaborator with Robert Rauschenberg and Alex Katz
• September 1 - Irving Petlin, 83, American artist
• September 11 - Tchan Fou-li, 102, Chinese photographer
• September 17 - Annette Michelson, 96, American art critic (co-founder of October) and film critic (death announced on this date)
• September 18 - Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of "Learning from Las Vegas"
• September 19 - Geta Brătescu, 92, Romanian visual artist
• September 20 - Henry Wessel Jr., 76, American photographer
• September 23 - Jane Fortune, American art writer (Invisble Womem: Forgotten Artists of Florence) and philanthropist
• September 26 - Helena Almeida, 84, Portuguese painter and photographer
• October 1 - Shirin Aliabadi, 44-45, Iranian visual artist
• October 11 - Milton Gendel, 99, American-Italian photographer and art critic (ARTnews)

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