2013 in art

none September 2026 2013 art The year 2013 in art involved various significant events. Events March 9 – The identification of Portrait of Olivia Porter as an original work of the 1630s by Sir Anthony van Dyck is announced. It is in the collection of the Bowes Museum, County Durham, England.Van Dyck painting 'found online' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209 March 18, 2013 BBC News March 9, 2013 thumb|Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter by Anthony van Dyck before and after restoration. The version on the left was the photograph originally posted to the Your Paintings website. March 18 – The identification of Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet as an original work of 1635 by Rembrandt is announced. Hanging in Buckland Abbey, Devon, England, it is the only painting by this artist in the collection of the British National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty to whom it was gifted in 2010.Expert confirms painting is a Rembrandt http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355774862560/ National Trust Swindon March 18, 2013 March 18, 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130321055502/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355774862560/ March 21, 2013 April – The philanthropist and art collector Leonard Lauder promises for donation his important collection of Cubist works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris estimated to be valued at over one billion US dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/arts/design/leonard-lauder-is-giving-his-cubist-collection-to-the-met.html Leonard Lauder Is Giving His Cubist Collection to the Met Carol Vogel April 9, 2013 October 16, 2017 The New York Times April 13 – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is re-opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands after a ten-year refurbishment.Rijksmuseum set for grand reopening in Amsterdam, BBC News, April 4, 2013. Retrieved on April 4, 2013. May – Extension to Lenbachhaus art museum, designed by Foster and Partners, is opened in Munich. May 9 – Charles Ray's sculpture "Boy with Frog" is removed by the city of Venice from where it stood before the Punta della Dogana overlooking where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal. The work which had been commissioned by Francois-Henri Pinault to stand outside the aforementioned historic building which serves as an annex to his main museum housed in the Palazzo Grassi is replaced by a contemporary copy of a streetlamp which once stood at the same spot.Ignacio Villarreal http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62452 Venice removes controversial Boy with Frog statue by American artist Charles Ray Artdaily.com December 24, 2013 July–October – Gromit Unleashed in Bristol, England.Mathias Vicki Gromit Unleashed: Now we're all going "Gromiting" http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-going-Gromiting/story-19498599-detail/story.html#axzz2aQxy4yJM July 29, 2013 This is Bristol July 10, 2013 Beard George https://web.archive.org/web/20130715043606/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-going-Gromiting/story-19498599-detail/story.html#axzz2aQxy4yJM July 15, 2013 dead July 10 – Reclusive English artist Audrey Amiss dies at the age of 79 in London, leaving behind a personal archive including hundreds of albums and books, and around 50,000 sketches.Sharrocks Amy https://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/daylight?_pos=2&_sid=0fb580f1b&_ss=r Daylight Qualmann Clare Hodge Madeleine Site Projects 2018 978-09554379-8-4 London English July 14 – The dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/news/features/rachel_carson/ Unveiling and Dedication of the Rachel Carson Statue July 30, 2013 Northeast Fisheries Science Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration en September 20, 2018 July 25 – Katharina Fritsch's sculpture Hahn/Cock is unveiled on the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' Laura Barnett The Guardian London July 24, 2013 July 25, 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/24/katharina-fritsch-fourth-plinth-cockerel-sculpture October – The English street artist Banksy stages an entire month of daily public installations all over New York City entitled "Better Out Than In".http://www.villagevoice.com/microsites/banksy-nyc/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131014230808/http://www.villagevoice.com/microsites/banksy-nyc/ dead October 14, 2013 Village Voice Exclusive: An Interview with Banksy, Street Art Cult Hero, International Man of Mystery October 9, 2013 October 21 – Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin resigns citing personal reasons.http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/10/cleveland_museum_of_art_direct_1.html Cleveland Museum of Art Director David Franklin resigns for personal reasons, effective immediately Cleveland.com October 22, 2013 October 16, 2017 Numerous published sources later revealed that the married Franklin had been involved in an affair with a subordinate. When this revelation came to the attention of the board, Franklin chose to leave.http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/10/23/former-cleveland-museum-of-art-director-david-franklin-resigns-after-affair-suicide-cell-phone-of-victim-missing Former Cleveland Museum of Art Director David Franklin Resigns After Affair, Suicide; Cell Phone of Victim Missing Vince Grzegorek CleveScene.com October 16, 2017 The woman in question, Christina Gaston, committed suicide.http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/11/investigation_remains_closed_i.html Investigation remains closed in the suicide of the lover of Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin, but questions linger Cleveland.com November 2, 2013 October 16, 2017 November 3 – The magazine Focus reveals that in March 2012, 121 framed and 1,258 unframed artworks were discovered by German customs authorities in an apartment in Schwabing, Munich. Seized from the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of 1930s and later degenerate art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, the cache includes works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Otto Dix and others.Hickley Catherine https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-11/german-government-to-speed-up-research-on-munich-cache.html Germany Says 590 Artworks in Munich Haul May Be Nazi Loot Bloomberg News November 11, 2013 December 24, 2013 November 12 – The triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud by the painter Francis Bacon sells for yes142.4 million (including the buyer's premium) to an unnamed buyer at Christie's New York auction house, becoming the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction.https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-million-at-sothebys-auction.html The Scream Is Auctioned for a Record $119.9 Million Vogel Carol The New York Times May 2, 2012 November 13, 2013 The 2013 sale also represents the highest price paid for a work by a British artist, beating Bacon's Triptych 1976, which fetched $86.3 million in May 2008.https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/arts/design/15auction.html Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million Vogel Carol The New York Times May 15, 2008 November 13, 2013 November 19 – Museo Júmex in Mexico City, designed by David Chipperfield, is opened to show part of the contemporary art Colección Júmex. November 20 – The "Graffiti Mecca" 5Pointz on the sides of a twentieth-century warehouse in Long Island City, Queens, New York, is whitewashed by a team of painters in the employ of the site's new developers.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chase-guttman/five-pointz_b_4317468.html Rest in Peace, Five Pointz Chase Guttman November 21, 2013 HuffingtonPost.com October 16, 2017 November 25 – "The Church of Vezzoli", the PS1, New York City leg of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli's three part retrospective, "The Trinity", is cancelled after the church he arranged to buy in the town of Montegiordano for deployment in the exhibition is remanded in Italy prior to its leaving the country for the United States.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/arts/design/francesco-vezzolis-art-show-hits-a-snag.html Francesco Vezzoli's Art Show Hits a Snag Ted Loos Gaia Pianigiani November 25, 2013 October 16, 2017 The New York Times November 28 – The Tetley (Leeds) opens as a contemporary art gallery in England. December 4 – Pérez Art Museum Miami, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is opened.Caroline Roux November 29, 2013 https://www.ft.com/content/360d7b96-5363-11e3-b425-00144feabdc0 Architect Christine Binswanger on Pérez Art Museum Miami Financial Times London December 29, 2013 December 12 – From today until March 16, 2014, the Dying Gaul is put on display in the main rotunda of the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This temporary tenure marks the first time the antiquity has left Italy since it was returned in the second decade of the nineteenth century after Napoleon brought it to the Louvre in 1797 as a plunder of war. Exhibitions February 1 until May 6 – "Carl Andre: Mass & Matter" at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, England.Alastair Sooke Carl Andre: Mass & Matter, Turner Contemporary, Margate, review https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9832202/Carl-Andre-Mass-and-Matter-Turner-Contemporary-Margate-review.html The Daily Telegraph London January 28, 2013 February 1, 2013 February 3 until May 9 – "Llyn Foulkes" at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2013-feb-07-la-et-cm-0207-knight-foulkes-review-20130207-story.html Christopher Knight Art review: Retrospective shows Llyn Foulkes' sharp eccentricity Los Angeles Times February 7, 2013 March 18, 2013 February 15 until May 8 – "Gutai: Splendid Playground" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.Roberta Smith The Seriousness of Fun in Postwar Japan'Gutai: Splendid Playground' at the Guggenheim https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/gutai-splendid-playground-at-the-guggenheim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 The New York Times February 14, 2013 March 4, 2013 March 5 until May 27 – "Street" by James Nares at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Cityhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/nyregion/in-james-naress-street-taming-the-galloping-city.html In James Nares's 'Street,' Taming the Galloping City Martha Schwendener August 10, 2012 October 16, 2017 The New York Times March 16 until June 16 – Karl Stirner "Transformations II: Works in Steel" at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvaniahttp://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/transformations-ii-works-in-steel-by-karl-stirner https://web.archive.org/web/20130613184450/http://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/transformations-ii-works-in-steel-by-karl-stirner usurped June 13, 2013 Transformations II: Works in Steel by Karl Stirner – Michener Art Museum Michenermuseum.org June 16, 2013 December 24, 2013 March 23 – August 11 – "David Bowie is" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/david-bowie-is/about-the-exhibition David Bowie is: About the Exhibition VAM.ac.uk October 16, 2017 May 3 until September 29 – "Jack Goldstein x 10,000" at the Jewish Museum in New York City.http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/jack-goldstein The Jewish Museum New York | Art Exhibition | Jack Goldstein × 10,000 Thejewishmuseum.org December 24, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131225080953/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/jack-goldstein December 25, 2013 dead May 12 until October 6 – "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music" at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C.http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/diaghilev.html Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music Nga.gov October 6, 2013 December 24, 2013 May 23 until October 6 – "Hopper Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/HopperDrawing?gclid=CMvMs6i-hboCFVEaOgodemMAmw Whitney Museum of American Art: Hopper Drawing Whitney.org May 16, 2013 December 24, 2013 May 29 until November 24 – "Galleria Vezzoli" by Francesco Vezzoli at MAXXI in Rome, Italy.Ignacio Villarreal http://artdaily.com/news/62907/Galleria-Vezzoli-at-Maxxi--Over-90-works-in-the-first-Italian-retrospective-devoted-to-Francesco-Vezzoli Galleria Vezzoli at Maxxi: Over 90 works in the first Italian retrospective devoted to Francesco Vezzoli Artdaily.com December 24, 2013 June 1 until October 27 – Sir Anthony Caro at the Museo Correr, Venice, Italy.http://correr.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/caro-at-correr/2013/02/9194/exhibition-3/ Museo Correr | Exhibition Correr.visitmuve.it October 27, 2013 December 24, 2013 June 21 until September 25 – "James Turrell: Video Transcript at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4819 James Turrell Guggenheim.org September 25, 2013 December 24, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131223051612/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4819 December 23, 2013 dead June 22 until September 23 – "Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California.http://deyoung.famsf.org/press-room/richard-diebenkorn-berkeley-years-1953-1966 Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 May 14, 2013 FAMSF.org October 16, 2017 August 3 until November 3 – Peter Doig: "No Foreign Lands" at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/peter-doig/ Peter Doig − Past − What's On − National Galleries of Scotland Nationalgalleries.org November 3, 2013 December 24, 2013 August 10 until November 3 – "Soundings: A Contemporary Score", at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1379 Soundings: A Contemporary Score MoMA December 24, 2013 August 17 – January 5, 2014 – "Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk" at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2013/hammer-projects-maya-hayuk/ Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk – Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum August 17, 2013 October 16, 2017 September 22 until January 4, 2014 – "Milloff's Melville" at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut http://www.lymanallyn.org/milloffs-melville/ Milloff's Melville Lymanallyn.org July 23, 2013 December 24, 2013 September 26 until January 4, 2014 – "Robert Indiana: Beyond Love" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/RobertIndiana Whitney Museum of American Art: Robert Indiana: Beyond Love Whitney.org December 24, 2013 September 28, 2013, until January 6, 2014 – "The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris" at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italyhttp://www.guggenheim.org/venice/exhibitions/the-avant-gardes-of-fin-de-siecle-paris The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Guggenheim.org September 28, 2013 December 24, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131228152014/http://www.guggenheim.org/venice/exhibitions/the-avant-gardes-of-fin-de-siecle-paris December 28, 2013 dead October 2 until January 14, 2014 – "Chris Burden: Extreme Measures" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/chris-burden-extreme-measures Chris Burden: Extreme Measures New Museum December 24, 2013 October 4 until January 26, 2014 – "Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction" at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_13Holtzman.php Home of American Impressionism. Visit where the Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme Connecticut once lived Florence Griswold Museum December 24, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131012212317/http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_13Holtzman.php October 12, 2013 dead October 5 until March 16, 2014 – The Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.http://ci13.cmoa.org 2013 Carnegie International Ci13.cmoa.org December 24, 2013 October 23 until March – "Damage Control: Art and Destruction SINCE 1950" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. October 24 until May 26, 2014 – Christopher Wool at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/christopher-wool Christopher Wool December 28, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20140109055259/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/christopher-wool January 9, 2014 dead November 7 until February 2 – ""And Materials and Money in Crisis" (curated by Richard Birkett in dialogue with Sam Lewitt) at MOMUK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) Vienna, Austria.https://www.mumok.at/sites/default/files/cms/01_pt_mumok_andmaterialsandmoneyandcrisis_e_0.pdf and Materials and Money and Crisis 2013–2014 Mumok December 3 – February 23, 2014 – "Phyllida Barlow: Hoard" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.http://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=exhibitions.details&content_id=1096 Norton Museum of Art – Phyllida Barlow: Hoard Norton.org October 16, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171016122411/http://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=exhibitions.details&content_id=1096 October 16, 2017 dead December 2013 – February 2014 – In 2013, the Brooklyn Rail established Rail Curatorial Projects, an initiative to manifest the journal's goals within an exhibition context. That same year, the Brooklyn Rail was invited by the Dedalus Foundation to curate an exhibition which resulted in Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year One (2013, Industry City), a momentous exhibition of hundreds of New York and Brooklyn artists. Come Together was named the #1 exhibition in New York City by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazinehttp://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2013/top-10-art-shows/ The 10 Best Art Shows of the Year NYMag.com May 7, 2018 In 2014, the exhibition was commemorated in a hardcover catalogue.https://cometogethersandy.com/artists/ Hurricane Sandy Works March 5 – The Bay Lights, a 75th-anniversary site-specific monumental light sculpture and art installation on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge designed by light artist Leo Villareal, is inaugurated.Whiting Sam Bay Bridge to beam vivid light sculpture http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Bay-Bridge-to-beam-vivid-light-sculpture-3872898.php January 23, 2013 San Francisco Chronicle September 18, 2012 March 7 – Peter Fischli & David Weiss's Rock on Top of Another Rock is unveiled outside the Serpentine Galleries in London.http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/fischli/weiss-rock-top-another-rock A question of stability Serpentine Galleries 2013 July 5, 2014 March 27, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160327093859/http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/fischli/weiss-rock-top-another-rock dead March 16 – "Big Air Package" Christo filled the Gasometer Oberhausen with the "largest ever inflated envelops without aid of a skeleton" and the installation continued until December 30.  It was the first major work by the artist following the passing of his wife and artistic collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/big-air-package-the-largest-inflated-envelope-in-history-by-christo/ Big Air Package: The Largest Inflated Envelope in History by Christo March 18, 2013 April – The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, official painted portrait of The Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee, painted by Australian artist Ralph Heimans is shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/exhibition_subsite_glorious.php Glorious: A Diamond Jubilee portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II National Portrait Gallery June 14, 2013 Pawel Althamer - The Venetians (created for and exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale)https://www.wmagazine.com/story/pawel-althamer-venetians Pawel Althamer's Venetians January 27, 2014 W Magazine Nuray Anahtar – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (sculpture, Washington, D.C.) Lawrence Argent - Flowing Kiss, sculpture, Columbus, Ohio Michaël Borremans – The Angel (painting) Alex Chinneck – From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes is installed in Margate and Under the Weather But Over the Moon in Blackfriars Road, London, England. Gregory Coates - "Blue Feather"https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.202 Blue Feather William Cochran – Pillar of Fire (sculpture, Washington, D.C.) Devin Laurence Field – Barometer (sculpture, Hillsboro, Oregon) Blessing Hancock & Joe O'Connell – Heart Beacon (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Ann Hirsch - Statue of Bill Russell at Boston City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts Anthony Padgett - Praying Shell (scultuptural memorial to Chinese labourers who died illegally harvesting cockles - located near Red Bank Farm, on the edge of Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, North West England)https://www.friendsoftheplatformmorecambe.uk/?p=1258 The Praying Shell – Friends of The Platform Morecambe Juan Carlos Pinto and others - Mosaic mural in memoriam to Ric Menello and then continuing into the Newark Plaza tunnel entrance mural (ongoing) in Brooklyn, New Yorkhttp://ricmenello.com/newkirk-plaza-tunnel-mosaic-dedicated-to-ric-menello-by-artist-juan-carlos-pinto/ Newkirk Plaza Tunnel Mosaic dedicated to Ric Menello by artist Juan Carlos Pinto May 11, 2013https://pix11.com/news/local-news/community-transforms-brooklyn-subway-station-plaza/ Community transforms Brooklyn subway station plaza November 9, 2024 Phil Proctor – Iron Column (sculpture, Atlanta) Andy Scott - The Kelpies (sculptures standing between Falkirk and Grangemouth in Scotland) Sebastián - Monument to Mexicanness in Juarez, Mexico"The X" Monument in Ciudad Juárez wall https://www.digie.org/en/media/391 August 21, 2024 digie.org Austin Weishel – Ashes to Answers (sculpture, Washington, D.C.) Henry Taylor - Portrait of Steve Cannonhttps://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/26/henry-the-great-new-york-times-pays-homage-to-painter-known-for-powerful-approach-to-figurative-representation/ Henry the Great: New York Times Pays Homage to Painter Known for Powerful Approach to Figurative Representation October 27, 2023 Fred Wilson - "I Saw Othello's Visage in My Mind"https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/i-saw-othellos-visage-his-mind-114139 I Saw Othello's Visage in His Mind | Smithsonian American Art Museum americanart.si.edu Awards Archibald Prize – Del Kathryn Barton for "hugo"https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2013/29358/ Archibald Prize Archibald 2013 work: Hugo by del Kathryn Barton Carnegie Prize – Nicole Eisenman New Year Honours (UK) 2014 (announced December 31, 2013) – Knight Bachelor: Antony Gormley Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture – Antony Gormley (UK) The Venice Biennale (June 1 – November 24): Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) for lifetime achievement: Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz Leone d'Oro for the Best Artist of the international exhibition: Tino Sehgal (United Kingdom/Germany) Leone d'Oro for the Best Young Artist: Camille Henrot (France) Leone d'Oro for Best Pavilion: Edson Chagas (Angola) Films Picasso Baby (performance music video) Deaths January 1 – Michael Patrick Cronan, 61, American graphic designer and artist January 3 – Ted Godwin, 79, Canadian painter January 6 – Ruth Carter Stevenson, 89, American museum founder January 7 – Ada Louise Huxtable, 91, American architecture critic (The New York Times) January 8 – Kenojuak Ashevak, 85, Canadian Inuk artist January 16 – Burhan Doğançay, 83, Turkish artist January 19 – Andrée Putman 87, French interior and product designer January 25 – Oleg Vassiliev, 81, Russian painter January 26 – Shozo Shimamoto, 85, Japanese artist January 28 Oldřich Kulhánek, 72, Czech painter and graphic designer, designer of banknotes and postage stamps Ceija Stojka, 79, Austrian-Romanian author and painter January 30 – Roger Raveel, 91, Belgian painter February 6 – Alden Mason, 93, American artist February 9 Richard Artschwager, 89, American painter, sculptor and illustrator Colin Laverty, 75, Australian collector of indigenous art February 24 – Ralph Hotere, 81, New Zealand artist February 26 Bert Flugelman, 90, Australian sculptor William Perehudoff, 94, Canadian painter March 2 – Thomas McEvilley, 73, American art critic and academic March 9 – Merton Simpson, 84, American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collector March 12 – Ganesh Pyne, 76, Indian painter March 23 – Carlos Villa, 76, Filipino American painter March 29 – Reginald Gray, 82, Irish painter April 1 – Pavel 183, 29, Russian graffiti street artist April 9 David Hayes, 82, American sculptor Zao Wou Ki (Zhao Wuji), 93, Chinese-French painter April 19 – Storm Thorgerson, 69, British graphic designer (The Dark Side of the Moon album cover) April 30 – Roberto Chabet, 76, Filipino artist May 2 – Charles Banks Wilson, 94, American painter May 3 – Herbert Blau, 87, director and theoretician of performance May 8 – Taylor Mead, 88, Warhol superstar, actor, New York City art scene regular and poet May 15 – Thomas M. Messer, 93, Czech born American director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1961–1988) May 21 – Fred Mitchell, 89, American painter May 22 – Wayne F. Miller, 94, American photographer May 24 – Gotthard Graubner, 82, German painter May 26 – Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian artist June 1 – Dorothy Napangardi, 60s, Australian indigenous artist June 8 – Arturo Vega, 65, Mexican-born American punk graphic designer (logo for The Ramones) June 14 – Monica Ross, 62, English performance artist June 20 – Jeffrey Smart, 91, Australian painter June 21 – Per Ung, 80, Norwegian sculptor June 26 Sarah Charlesworth, 66, American conceptual artist, photographer Bert Stern, 83, American photographer July 6 – John B. Hightower, 80, American museum director July 10 – Audrey Amiss, 79, English artist July 16 – Alex Colville, 92, Canadian painter July 21 – Ronnie Cutrone, 65, American artist July 25 Walter De Maria, 77, American sculptor of The Lightning Field León Ferrari, 92, Argentine conceptual artist August 5 – Ruth Asawa, 87, Japanese American sculptor August 10 – Allan Sekula, 62, American artist August 17 –Stephen Antonakos, 86, Greek-born American sculptor August 28 John Bellany, 71, Scottish painter Matt Doust, 29, American born Australian artist August 29 – Jack Beal, 82, American painter October 8 – Ellen Lanyon 87, American painter October 12 – Ulf Linde, 84, Swedish art critic, writer, museum director and member of the Swedish Academy October 14 – Frank Moore, 67, American performance artist October 23 – Sir Anthony Caro, 89, British sculptor October 24 – Deborah Turbeville, 81, American fashion photographer October 25 – Arthur Danto, 89, American art critic October 27 – Lou Reed, 71, (Art) Rock musician (The Velvet Underground managed by Andy Warhol) and photographer November 3 – Leonard Long, 102, Australian painter November 12 – Kurt Trampedach, 70, Danish painter and sculptor November 23 – Peter B. Lewis, 80, American businessman and arts patron (the Guggenheim Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art) December 1 – Martin Sharp, 71, Australian artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker December 3 – Sacha Sosno, 76, French sculptor and painter December 5 – Günther Förg, 61, German artist, German painter and sculptor December 6 – Peeter Mudist, 71, Estonian painter December 13 – Harvey Littleton, 91, American glass artist December 14 C. N. Karunakaran, 73, Indian painter George Rodrigue, 69, American painter (creator of "The Blue Dog" series) December 23 Robert W. Wilson, 87, American philanthropist, art collector and trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art Chryssa, 84, Greek American artist December 24 – Jean Rustin, 85, French painter References Category:2010s in art Category:Years of the 21st century in art