2007 in art

none 2007 art The year 2007 in art involved various significant events and new works. Events April - The Museo Alameda opens in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.Rothstein Edward 2007-04-21 Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated Identity en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/arts/design/21smit.html 2023-03-02 0362-4331 10 June – 21 November – 52nd Venice Biennale. October - Execution by Yue Minjun sells at Sotheby's in London for £2.9 million pounds (US $5.9 million - euro 4.2 million) making it most expensive artwork ever sold by a Chinese contemporary artist.http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F10%2F13%2Fapworld%2F20071013203027&sec=apworld https://web.archive.org/web/20080922145628/http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F10%2F13%2Fapworld%2F20071013203027&sec=apworld 2008-09-22 The Star | Malaysia News: National, Regional and World News 18 October – In New York City, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits. 22 October – In Amersfoort (Netherlands) a fire at the Armando museum destroys 63 paintings from the permanent and loan collections.Armando Museum in Ruins After Fire http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/25906/armando-museum-in-ruins-after-fire/ Blouin Artinfo 2007-10-24 2014-01-07 2014-01-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20140107181036/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/25906/armando-museum-in-ruins-after-fire/ live 2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".Morgan Nesta Nightwatching Film&festivals 2 2 5 Wallflower Press, Film Culture Ltd. United Kingdom 1755-5485 14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/european-paintings/lot.79.html Julio Romero de Torres Sotheby's 2015-08-16 2015-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924131556/http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/european-paintings/lot.79.html live 20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. It is recovered about three weeks later. Exhibitions 23 January - 13 May - "Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum in New York Cityhttps://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/martin-ramirez/ Martín Ramírez | American Folk Art Museum 2021-03-28 2021-03-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20210313123411/https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/martin-ramirez/ live 10 May–28 July - “Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas” at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York Cityhttps://www.artforum.com/picks/universal-language-the-avant-garde-viking-eggeling-hans-richter-and-jonas-mekas-15451 "Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas" at Maya Stendhal Gallery 6 June 2007 2021-03-14 2021-09-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20210917003301/https://www.artforum.com/picks/universal-language-the-avant-garde-viking-eggeling-hans-richter-and-jonas-mekas-15451 live 14 June-16 September - National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007"National Portrait Gallery website https://web.archive.org/web/20140302170115/http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2007/bp-portrait-award-2007.php 2014-03-02 . Accessed 26 February 2014 15 June until 26 August - Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New Yorkhttps://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/ken-heyman-pop-portraits Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits | Buffalo AKG Art Museum buffaloakg.org 15 April 2023 23 June until 16 September - Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexicohttps://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/hans-schabus/ Hans Schabus 2021-06-04 2021-06-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604020615/https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/hans-schabus/ live September–December - Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007 Awards Archibald Prize – John Beard, Portrait of Janet Laurence Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Caldecott Medal – David Wiesner, Flotsam Turner Prize – Mark Wallinger, State Britain Venice Biennale – (June 10 - November 21) Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement:Malick Sidibé (Mali) Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Andreas Fogarasi (Hungary) Wynne prize – Philip Wolfhagen, Winter Nocturne IV Works Category:2007 paintings Category:2007 sculptures Sanford Biggers - Blossomhttps://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sanford_biggers/ Brooklyn Museum: Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective 2021-05-16 2021-05-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20210516194426/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sanford_biggers/ live Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas) Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta) Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt)Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/184064 2023-03-02 www.brooklynmuseum.org David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)https://stormking.org/exhibitions/zhanghuan/works/3leggedbuddha.html Zhang Huan 2021-06-05 2021-06-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20210605004333/https://stormking.org/exhibitions/zhanghuan/works/3leggedbuddha.html live Maya Lin - Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art) John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina) Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England) Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph) Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England) Neo Rauch Hunter's Room Waiting for the Barbarians Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City)http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/saar.shtml Alison Saar - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs 2017-03-26 2017-03-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080122/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/saar.shtml dead Tahir Salahov – Land of Fire Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London) Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)http://reuters.viewdle.com/video?vid=C417-RELIGIOUSART-1188516406.mpg&pid=bebc09f3ec1a3d94d3664dcb25efebc7 Bin Laden & Virgin Mary in Art Row Stefanie McIntyre Reuters August 2007 2012-05-16 2012-02-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20120217054656/http://reuters.viewdle.com/video?vid=C417-RELIGIOUSART-1188516406.mpg&pid=bebc09f3ec1a3d94d3664dcb25efebc7 dead http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/furor-over-artw.html Furor over Burqa-clad Virgin Mary, Jesus morphing into Osama bin Laden USA Today September 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080507073916/http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/furor-over-artw.html 2008-05-07 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22333103-661,00.html Fury on Virgin Mary's Burqa Elizabeth Fortescue Heath Aston Herald Sun August 2007 2012-05-16 2007-12-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20071216121439/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22333103-661,00.html dead James Turrell – Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States) Deaths January to March 8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (b.1925). 11 January – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (b.1929). 20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942). 4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922). 6 February – Heinz Berggruen, German art collector 14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925). 22 February Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918). Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (b.1965; ovarian cancer).http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0223/1172182811315.html Miriam Mone obituary in The Irish Times The Irish Times 2014-02-26 2012-10-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20121011104219/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0223/1172182811315.html live 2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955). 6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929). 16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921). April to June 7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931). 8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928). 10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919). 15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920). 17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910). 3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913). 26 May – James Beck, American art historian (b.1930). 28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945; ALS).Obituary https://web.archive.org/web/20210917003301/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/13/guardianobituaries.germany 2021-09-17 , The Guardian, 13 June 2007 2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943). 17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944). 22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931). 26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929). July to September 7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian, and critic (b.1925). 17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971). 22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950). 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922). 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919). 12 August Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman (b.1940). Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963). 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936). 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907). 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist. October to December 5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962). 8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917). 21 October R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932). Ileana Sonnabend, American art dealer and gallerist. 30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927). 16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924). 4 December Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932). Herman Rose 98, American painter (b.1909). 7 December - Noel Forster, British painter (b.1932) 14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926). 31 December Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b. 1924). Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/arts/01sottsass.html Ettore Sottsass, Designer, Is Dead at 90 Pogrebin Robin J. 1 January 2008 The New York Times 3 July 2017 en-US 0362-4331 Undated Steven Campbell, Scottish figurative painter (b. 1953) References Category:2000s in art Category:Years of the 21st century in art