2022 in art
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The year 2022 in art involves various significant events.
Events[edit]
- February - Twenty five works by the Ukrainian painter Maria Prymachenko are believed to have been destroyed by a fire which consumed the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (where they were housed) in Ivankiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]
- April 9 - The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens to the public after a five-year, $105 million overhaul.[3]
- May 8 - The Andy Warhol silk-screen painting Sage Blue Shot Marilyn (1964) sells at Christie's in New York City for $195.04 million (with fees) shattering the record for a price paid at auction for a work by an American artist, besting the previous mark set by Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting Untitled which sold for $110,500,000 in 2017. [4][5] It also became the most expensive 20th century artwork sold in a public sale.[6] The buyer was the American art dealer Larry Gagosian.[7]
- May 14 - An original print of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres sells for $12.4 million US (with fees) at Christie's in New York City making it the most expensive photograoh ever sold at auction.[8][9]
Exhibitions[edit]
- January 31 until June 5 - Charles Ray: Figure Ground at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[10]
- February 3 until April 16 - Ed Kerns: Interconnected at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.[11]
- February 11 until April 17 - Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s) at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City.[12]
- February 11 until May 15 - Holbein: Capturing Character's at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.[13]
- February 17 until May 15 - Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[14]
- March 3 until April 14 - Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All at the Kasmin Gallery in New York City.[15]
- May 14 until October 2 - Nick Cave: Forothemore at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.[16]
- May 20 until October 16 - Marc Quinn: History Paintings + at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[17]
- Ongoing - Ricky Brown: Really Bad Portraits at Washington Square Park in New York City. [18]
Works[edit]
- William Behrends - Statue of Tom Seaver (permanently installed at Citi Field in Queens, New York)[19]
- Alex Da Corte - ROY G BIV (commissioned for and exhibited at the 2022 Whitney Biennial)[20]
- Dmitry Iv - Shoot Yourself (sculpture) in Kyiv, Ukraine [21]
Awards[edit]
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Films and series[edit]
Deaths[edit]
- January 1 - Calisto Tanzi, 83, Italian art collector and convicted fraudster
- January 4 - Craig Ruddy, 53, Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner (COVID-19)[22]
- January 14 - Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish-Catalonian architect
- January 15 - Hossein Valamanesh, 72, Iranian-Australian artist
- January 16
- Tova Berlinski, 106, Polish-born Israeli painter[23]
- Alekos Fassianos, 86, Greek painter
- Andrei Mudrea, 67, Moldovan painter and plastic artist
- January 31 - James Bidgood, 88, American filmmaker, photographer, and visual and performance artist
- February 7 - Dan Lacey, 61, American painter
- February 10 - John Wesley, 93, American painter
- February 12 - Carmen Herrera, 106, Cuban-born American artist[24]
- February 17 - John Scott, 71, Canadian artist
- February 19
- Marino Golinelli, 101, Italian art collector
- Dan Graham, 79, American artist[25]
- Jan Pieńkowski, 85, Polish-born British illustrator
- February 22 - DeWain Valentine, 86, American sculptor
- February 26
- Antonio Seguí, 88, Argentine cartoonist and painter
- Srihadi Soedarsono, 90, Indonesian painter
- February 27 - Nick Zedd, 63, American filmmaker and painter
- March 1 - Conrad Janis, 94, American actor, art dealer, and son of Sidney Janis
- March 13 - Albert Kresch, 99, American painter
- March 18 - Budi Tek, 65, Indonesian art collector
- March 28 - Mira Calix, 52, South African-born British visual artist and musician
- March 29 - Ted Mooney, 70, American novelist and Art journalist (Art in America)
- March 31 - Patrick Demarchelier, 78, French photographer
- April 1 - Eleanor Munro, 94, American art critic, art historian, and writer
- April 4 -
- Donald Baechler, 65, American painter
- Jerry Uelsmann, 87, American photographer
- April 6 - David McKee, 87, British illustrator
- April 18 - Hermann Nitsch, 83, Austrian artist (Viennese Actionism)
- April 21 - Cynthia Plaster Caster, 74, American artist
- April 22 - Marcus Leatherdale, 69, Canadian photographer
- April 23 - Enoch Kelly Haney, 81, American sculptor and painter
- April 30 - Ron Galella 91, American photographer
- May 7 - Suzi Gablik 87, American artist, and art critic
- May 10 - Enrique Metinides, 88, Mexican crime photographer
- May 15 - Knox Martin, 99, American painter
References[edit]
- ^ Stevens, Matt; Bowley, Graham (28 February 2022). "Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say". The New York Times.
- ^ "Ukrainian Culture and Art Comes Under Attack in the Wake of Russia's Invasion".
- ^ "Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum". Los Angeles Times. 7 April 2022.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (10 May 2022). "Warhol's 'Marilyn,' at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist". The New York Times.
- ^ "Andy Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m". TheGuardian.com. 10 May 2022.
- ^ "At $195mn, Warhol's Marilyn becomes most expensive 20th-century painting - la Prensa Latina Media".
- ^ "Who's Gagosian, the Winning Bidder for Warhol's $195 Million 'Marilyn'". Bloomberg.com. 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million". CNN.
- ^ "Man Ray's Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M". 14 May 2022.
- ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/charles-ray[bare URL]
- ^ "'Interconnected' cross-campus exhibit celebrates four decades of ed Kerns' expression through art".
- ^ "In Pictures: See Crowds Lose Themselves in Artist Tomás Saraceno's Immersive Spiderweb Environment at the Shed". 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Holbein: Capturing Character". 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman".
- ^ "Dorothea Tanning's Enigmatic Art Journeys Beyond Surrealism in a New Show at Kasmin". 9 March 2022.
- ^ "MCA - Nick Cave: Forothermore".
- ^ "Marc Quinn: History Painting + | Yale Center for British Art".
- ^ https://mymodernmet.com/really-bad-portraits-ricky-brown/
- ^ "Mets unveil overdue Tom Seaver statue outside Citi Field". 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Alex da Corte: ROY G BIV".
- ^ "'Shoot Yourself': Statue of Putin with gun in his mouth appears in Kyiv". 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Craig Ruddy, Archibald prize-winning painter, dies at 53". The Guardian. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ Jessica Steinberg (17 January 2022). "Tova Berlinski, artist who painted the pain of Auschwitz, dies at 106". Times of Israel. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Oliver Basciano (14 February 2022). "Carmen Herrera obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Dan Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Bent Time and Space, Dies at 79