2023 in art
Events
- February - The Joan Mitchell foundation issues a cease and desist letter to Louis Vuitton to stop using Joan Mitchell's paintings as the backdrop in one of the advertising campaigns for their signature handbags, saying that it is unauthorized and improper usage.[1]
- February 16 - A woman attending the Art Wynwood art fair in the Wynwood section of Miami, Florida taps a limited edition porcelain Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture displayed at the Bel-Air Fine Art booth at the event knocking it to floor and shattering it into many many pieces and shards. Luckily for the interactive viewer there was no "Break it You Buy It" policy at the temporary gallery outpost and it was covered by insurance.[2]
- March - The Vatican Museums returns three historic 2,500 year old sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens to Greece.[3]
- March 29- The German born Belgian art collector and patron Myriam Ullens is shot dead allegedly by her stepson, Nicolas Ullens de Schooten Whettnall.[4]
Exhibitions
- January 26 until April 16 - Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[5]
- February 1 until April 30 - ''The Art of Banksy Without Limits'' in São Paulo, Brazil then travels to Queens Plaza in Brisbane, Australia from May 3 until July 9[6]
- February 18 until June 4 - Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York at the Home of the Arts at the Gold Coast, Queensland[7]
- March 7 until August 27 - Picasso Celebration: The Collection in a New Light at the Musée Picasso in Paris, France.[8]
- March 18 until October 15 - Kehinde Wiley: An Archeology of Silence at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California.[9]
- March 31 until September 10 - Gego: Measuring Infinity at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[10]
- March 31 until September 10 - Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[11]
- April 3 until July 16 - Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[12]
- April 4 until December 3 - Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[13]
- April 12 until May 26 - Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing at Acquavella Galleries in New York City.[14]
- April 13 until July 28 - Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.[15]
- July 15 until January 14 2024 - Gladiators: A Day At The Roman Games at Colchester Castle.[17]
Works
- Refik Anadol - Unsupervised created for and installed at MoMA in New York City[18]
- Banksy - Valentine's day mascara in Margate, Kent, England
- Urs Fischer - Divine Interventions[19]
- Lucinda "La Morena" Hinojos - Super Bowl LVII Mural in Phoenix, Arizona[20]
- Shazia Sikander
- Now
- Witness[21]
- Hank Willis Thomas - The Embrace installed on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts[22]
Deaths
- January 2 - Marilyn Stafford, 97, American photographer
- January 3
- Karim Bennani, 87, Moroccan painter
- Zhou Lingzhao, 103, Chinese painter
- Lyuben Zidarov, 97, Bulgarian illustrator and painter
- January 5 - Michael Snow, 94, Canadian artist
- January 9 - George S. Zimbel, 93, American-Canadian photographer
- January 10 - Hans Belting, 87, German art historian
- January 17 - Nicola Zamboni, 79, Italian sculptor
- January 27 - Alfred Leslie, 95, American painter and filmmaker
- February 13 - Jesse Treviño, 76, Mexican-American painter
- February 14 - Anthony Green, 83, British painter
- February 17 - Ángela Gurría, 93, Mexican sculptor
- February 26 - Ans Westra, 86, Dutch-born New Zealand photographer (Washday at the Pa)
- March 2 - Mary Bauermeister, 87, German visual artist and musician
- March 3
- Camille Souter, 93, British-born Irish artist (death announced on this date)
- Lou Stovall, 86, American visual artist
- Rafael Viñoly, 78, Uruguayan architect (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
- March 5 - Piero Gilardi, 80, Italian sculptor
- March 7 - Ian Falconer, 63, American illustrator (The New Yorker)
- March 11 - Bill Tidy, 89, British cartoonist
- March 12 - Phyllida Barlow, 78, British visual artist
- March 18 - Francisco Rodón, 88, Puerto Rican painter
- March 21 - Shamim Sikder, 70, Bangladeshi sculptor (Shoparjito Shadhinota)
- March 23 - James Harithas, 90, American museum curator
- March 29
- Vivan Sundaram, 79, Indian artist
- Myriam Ullens, 70, German born Belgian art patron
- April 3 - Neal Boenzi, 97, American photographer
- April 4 - Ted Bonin, 65, American art gallerist (death announced on this date)
- April 8 - Deborah Brown, 95, Northern Irish sculptor
- April 10 - Al Jaffee, 102, American cartoonist (Mad, Trump, Humbug)
- April 11
- John Olsen, 95, Australian artist
- Maya Wildevuur, 78, Dutch painter
- April 13 - Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 99, Swiss auctioneer, author, and art dealer
- April 14 - Ed Koren, 87, American cartoonist (The New Yorker)
- April 20 - Harold Riley, 88, English painter
- April 22 - Ju Ming, 85, Taiwanese sculptor
- April 23 - Yvonne Jacquette, 88, American painter
- May 6 - Frank Kozik, 61, Spanish-born American graphic artist
- May 16 - Dorothy Knowles, 96, Canadian painter
- May 17 - Jorrit Tornquist, 85, Austrian-Italian visual artist, color consultant, and theorist
References
- "Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease and Desist to Louis Vuitton over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads". 21 February 2023.
- Rosa, Amanda (21 February 2023). "Woman accidentally breaks $42,000 Jeff Koons sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami". Miami Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- "'A historic event': Vatican returns 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures to Greece". CNN. 9 March 2023.
- "Pioneering Collector and Chinese Art Patron Myriam Ullens Has Been Shot Dead Outside Her Home in Belgium". 30 March 2023.
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
- "Art of Banksy | Exhibition". Art of Banksy.
- "Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York at HOTA". 20 February 2023.
- "Picasso celebration: The collection in a new light! | VisitParisRegion".
- "Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence". FAMSF. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- "The Guggenheim Museum Presents".
- "Sarah Sze: Timelapse".
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
- "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing - New York - Exhibitions - Acquavella Galleries".
- "Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice - Hauser & Wirth | Hauser & Wirth". 11 April 2023.
- "Rear View".
- "Gladiators: A Day at the Roman Games". 4 January 2023.
- "Refik Anadol: Unsupervised | MoMA".
- "Rear View at LGDR: A Transhistorical Selection of over Sixty Paintings".
- "Arizona artist Lucinda Hinojos, 'La Morena,' inspired by community".
- "Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life". February 2023.
- "Hank Willis Thomas Memorializes MLK and Coretta Scott King's Love". 15 January 2023.
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