2008 in art

none March 2020 2008 art The year 2008 in art involved various significant events. Events A Fernand Léger painting Woman and Child (1921), which was at first on loan for an exhibit from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art while the Davis was closed for renovations, is later returned and then stored in a crate at Wellesley, but disappears in the intervening period; the work has not been seen since.https://entertainment.time.com/2008/09/11/first_they_lose_a_leger/ First They Lose a Leger Richard Lacayo Richard Lacayo 2008-09-11 2017-12-05 Time May – Police seize photographs by Bill Henson from an upcoming exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Australia, as potentially constituting child pornography.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/henson-fight-will-rage-on/news-story/a616e43fd7512d15f7a03bced2d7e010 Bill Henson fight will rage on despite the law Perkin Corrie Michael Pelly 2008-06-07 The Australian subscription 2012-08-28 Exhibitions 20 February until 18 May – National Gallery, Pompeo BatoniNational Gallery website https://web.archive.org/web/20120802232952/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/past/pompeo-batoni 2 August 2012 . Accessed 25 February 2014 4 July until 14 September – "Robert Indiana a Milano" at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Pavilion of Contemporary Art) in Milan, Italy http://www.artsblog.it/post/2022/tra-pop-e-tipografia-robert-indiana-a-milano Tra pop e tipografia, Robert Indiana a Milano 4 July 2008 2 June 2018 23 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180523173203/http://www.artsblog.it/post/2022/tra-pop-e-tipografia-robert-indiana-a-milano dead Works Category:2008 sculptures Miquel Barceló - United Nations Ceiling in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the United Nations Office at Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.2008-11-18 U.N. unveils its $23 million ceiling art https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27788857 2024-06-12 NBC News en Mel Bochner – BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! (seminal work in the series)http://www.artnet.com/artists/mel-bochner/ Mel Bochner | Artnet Christine Bourdette – Cairns, installation in Portland, Oregon Melvin Edwards - Transendence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, honor ing David Kearney McDonogh the college's first black graduate (1844).https://galleries.lafayette.edu/2019/01/02/mel-edwards-transcendence-2008-2/ Melvin EDWARDS, Transcendence, 2008 · Lafayette Art Galleries · Lafayette College galleries.lafayette.edu Gabriel Koren – Prudence Crandall with Student in the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticuthttps://www.ct.gov/kids/cwp/view.asp?a=2577&q=428212#:~:text=KIDS%3A%20Prudence%20Crandall%20Statue&text=There%20is%20a%20new%20statue,of%20her%20African%20American%20Students https://web.archive.org/web/20100528030109/http://www.ct.gov/kids/cwp/view.asp?a=2577&q=428212#:~:text=KIDS%3A%20Prudence%20Crandall%20Statue&text=There%20is%20a%20new%20statue,of%20her%20African%20American%20Students dead 28 May 2010 KIDS: Prudence Crandall Statue Allison Saar - Harriet Tubman Memorial in Harlem, New York City (sculpture)https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=19666 Historical Sign Listings : NYC Parks Cindy Sherman – Untitled (chromogenic photographic print) Stan's Cafe – Of All The People In All The World, installation and performancehttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/sep/13/centrallistings.theatre2 Guardian: Theatre preview 2008-09-24 The Guardian Gardner Lyn 2008-09-13 London Cy Twombly - Untitled I-IXUntitled I-IX https://collection.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/object/untitled-i-ix-100004831 2025-08-19 collection.louvreabudhabi.ae en La Danse de la fontaine émergente, fountain in Paris designed by Chen Zhen and completed by his widow Xu Min Monumento al perro callejero in Mexico City Films Séraphine Awards Archibald Prize – Del Kathryn Barton for "You are what is most beautiful about me", a self portrait with Kell and ArellaArchibald Prize Winner 2008: Del Kathryn Barton http://www.artnewsblog.com/archibald-prize-winner-2008-del-kathryn-barton/ www.artnewsblog.com August 2026 InternetArchiveBot Artes Mundi Prize – N. S. Harsha Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir John Moores Painting Prize – Peter McDonald for "Fontana"http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/25/prizewinners/peter_mcdonald.aspx 'Fontana', Peter McDonald – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum Turner Prize nominees – Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes. Deaths January to March 1 January – Harold Corsini, American photographer and educator (born 1919)Malloy Daniel Obituary: Harold Corsini/Photographer Who Chronicled Steel Industry http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/obituaries/obituary-harold-corsini-photographer-who-chronicled-steel-industry-374611/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121004130515/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/obituaries/obituary-harold-corsini-photographer-who-chronicled-steel-industry-374611/ dead 4 October 2012 13 May 2013 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 5 January 2008 3 January – Joan Gillchrest, British painter (born 1918)https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/feb/18/1 Joan Gillchrest 18 February 2006 Gill Mitchell The Guardian 20 May 2026 9 February - Dorothy Podber, American performance artist (born 1932)http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/02/26/dorothy_podber_wild_child_of_new_york_art_scene_at_75/ Dorothy Podber obituary in The Boston Globe Boston.com 2008-02-26 2013-12-04 2 February – Roger Testu, French cartoonist (born 1913)August 2026 3 March – William Brice, American painter and teacher (born 1921)Artist, UCLA teacher William Brice dies at 86 https://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20080310/artist-ucla-teacher-william-brice-dies-at-86 24 June 2020 The Monterey Herald March 10, 2008 11 March – Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (born 1955)https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/arts/design/30stevens.html?ref=arts Dave Stevens, 52, Artist Who Created the Rocketeer, Dies George Gene Gustines The New York Times March 30, 2008 19 March – Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (born 1929) 28 March – Michael Podro, English art historian (born 1931) 29 March Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b. 1966) Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (born 1929) April to June 3 April – Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929) 6 April – John Plumb, English painter (born 1927) 9 April – Burt Glinn, American photographer (born 1925) 14 April – Ollie Johnston, American animator (born 1912) 16 April – Joseph Solman, American painter (born 1909) 23 April – Paul Wonner, American painter (born 1920)https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-painter-Paul-Wonner-dies-3217422.php Bay Area painter Paul Wonner dies Kenneth Baker April 25, 2008 SFGate 25 April – Enrico Donati, Italian-born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (born 1909) 12 May – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b.1925)Michael McNay (May 13, 2008), Obituary: Robert Rauschenberg https://web.archive.org/web/20230325060715/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/may/13/art March 25, 2023 The Guardian 15 May Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (born 1921)https://observer.com/2008/05/illustrator-and-prankster-will-elder-dies-at-86/ Illustrator and Prankster Will Elder Dies at 86 Haber Matt May 15, 2008 The New York Observer 2008-05-15 Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (born 1930) 18 May – Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1921) 21 May – Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (born 1931) 23 May – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (born 1918)Gefter, Philip https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/arts/design/23cnd-capa.html Cornell Capa, Photographer, Is Dead at 90 The New York Times May 24, 2008 November 14, 2009 28 May – Beryl Cook, English painter (born 1926)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2043397/Beryl-Cook.html Beryl Cook 28 May 2008 The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk 20 February 2011 en 1 June Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (born 1940) Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (born 1936) 18 June – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (born 1915) http://www.reformer.com/ci_9634400 2008-06-19 Author, illustrator Tasha Tudor dies at 92 Brattleboro Reformer 2015-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085636/http://www.reformer.com/ci_9634400 dead July to December 7 July Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (born 1933) Fred Yates, English artist (born 1922) 19 July – Dave Pearson, English painter (born 1937) 1 August – Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (born 1922) 12 August – Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (born 1933) 18 August – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (born 1917) 23 August – John Russell, British American art critic (born 1919) 3 September – Derek Davis, English painter and potter (born 1926) 4 September – Alain Jacquet, French abstract artist(born 1939) 12 September – Simon Hantaï, Hungarian abstr (born 1922) 1 October – Boris Efimov, Russian cartoonist and propaganda artist (born 1900) 7 October – Miles Richmond, English painter (born 1922) 11 October – William Claxton, American photographer (born 1927) 14 October – Ray Lowry, English cartoonist and illustrator (born 1944)Dickinson Bob Ray Lowry obituary https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/nov/01/art The Guardian 18 October – Gwyther Irwin, English abstract artist (born 1931) 15 November – Grace Hartigan, American Abstract Expressionist painter, (born 1922) 16 November – Jan Krugier, Polish born Swiss art dealer (born 1928) 17 November – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer (born 1934) 17 December – Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator, critic (born 1936) 27 December – Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (born 1938) 29 December – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (born 1935) References Category:2000s in art Category:Years of the 21st century in art