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]
- April - Anti-war activist Darya Trepova kills the Russian pro-Ukraine war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in Saint Petersburg by handing him a bomb camaflogued inside a statue[5]
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.[6]
- The Art of Banksy Without Limits Exhibition
- February 1 - in São Paulo
- May 3 until July 9 - at Queens Plaza in Brisbane[7].
Works
- Banksy - Valentine's day mascara in Margate, Kent, England
- Lucinda "La Morena" Hinojos - Super Bowl LVII Mural in Phoenix, Arizona[8]
- Shazia Sikander
- Now
- Witness[9]
- Hank Willis Thomas - The Embrace installed on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts[10]
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 29
- Vivan Sundaram, 79, Indian artist
- Myriam Ullens, 70, German born Belgian art patron
- April 4 - Ted Bonin, 65, American art gallerist (death announced on this date)
References
- "Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease and Desist to Louis Vuitton over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads". 21 February 2023.
- https://amp.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article272539097.html
- "'A historic event': Vatican returns 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures to Greece". CNN.
- "Pioneering Collector and Chinese Art Patron Myriam Ullens Has Been Shot Dead Outside Her Home in Belgium". 30 March 2023.
- Stewart, Will; Hagan, Rachel (2023-04-03). "Suspect arrested after handling statue which killed blogger in cafe explosion". mirror. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
- https://www.artofbanksy.com/
- "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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