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2023 in art

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Depicts Inbal Liberman, an Israeli head of security who protected the settlement of Kibbutz during the October 7 terror attacks, with orange hair and blue uniform, holding a gun in both hands by her sides.
Graffiti of Inbal Liberman, Israeli head of security who protected the settlement of Kibbutz during the October 7 terror attacks

The year 2023 in art involves various significant events.

Events

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  • 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, knocking it to the floor and shattering it into many many pieces and shards. 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]
  • May - American visual artist and academic Shellyne Rodriguez has online and in-person confrontations in New York City with anti-abortion activists and when a New York Post reporter tries to interview her at her home she threatens him with a machete. She is then dismissed from her position as a professor at Hunter College, arrested and charged with menacing and harassment.[5]
  • June 27 - Gustav Klimt's last painting, Lady with a Fan (Dame mit Fächer, 1918), is sold by Sotheby's in London for UK£85.3M (US$108.4) to a Hong Kong collector, the highest-priced artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.[6]
  • September - Edouard Manet's Olympia comes to the U.S. for the very first time as part of the exhibition Manet/Degas, a show which originated at the famed work's home, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.[7]
  • October 6 - An American tourist visiting Israel throws two second century Roman statues to the floor in the Israel Museum damaging them and is subsequently arrested. Upon questioning by Israeli police the vandal said that he considered them “to be idolatrous and contrary to the Torah.”[8]
  • November 8 - The collection of Emily Fisher Landau (1920-2023) sets a record for the highest total proceeds ever obtained at auction from the sale of a collection of a female collector, 406 million $US at Sotheby's in New York City. The sale includes Pablo Picasso's Femme à la montre (1932), which changed hands for 121 million $US, the second highest price ever achieved at auction for a work by Picasso after Les Femmes d'Alger (1955), which sold for 179.4 million $US in 2015, then a record for a painting sold at auction.[9][10]
  • November - The missing painting by Sandro Botticelli, Madonna delle Grazie, is recovered in the Italian town of Gragnano.[11]
  • December
    • Australian artist Mike Parr is dropped by his longtime representative the Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne after staging a performance and instillation where he placed the words Israel and Nazis side by side.[12]
    • Departing the booth he curated at Art Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week art dealer Rodrigo Salomon leaves a small painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682), "Madonna and Child" valued at between 500,000 and 1 million $US in a Lyft vehicle before it can be retrieved from the trunk and the driver speeds away with the painting in the hold. The painting is subsequently returned.[13][14]

Exhibitions

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Works

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Awards

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Films

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Deaths

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January

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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References

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  1. ^ "Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease and Desist to Louis Vuitton over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads". 21 February 2023.
  2. ^ Rosa, Amanda (21 February 2023). "Woman accidentally breaks $42,000 Jeff Koons sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami". Miami Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  3. ^ "'A historic event': Vatican returns 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures to Greece". CNN. 9 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Pioneering Collector and Chinese Art Patron Myriam Ullens Has Been Shot Dead Outside Her Home in Belgium". 30 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Hunter College professor arrested after threatening NY Post reporter with machete". 25 May 2023.
  6. ^ Andersson, Jasmine (28 June 2023). "Klimt's final portrait sells for record £85.3m". BBC News. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  7. ^ Solomon, Tessa (11 May 2023). "Manet's 'Olympia' Will Travel to the United States for the First Time This Fall". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  8. ^ "An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel". Associated Press News. 6 October 2023.
  9. ^ Armstrong, Annie (9 November 2023). "Sotheby's Emily Fisher Landau Sale Is Most Valuable Ever for a Female Collector, Nets $406 Million". Artnet News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  10. ^ Schrader, Adam (9 November 2023). "Emily Fisher Landau's Prized Picasso Nets $139.4 Million at Sotheby's, Achieving the Second-Highest Price at Auction for the Spanish Artist". Artnet News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  11. ^ "'Lost' Botticelli masterpiece worth $109 million found in home in southern Italy". CNN. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  12. ^ Greenberger, Alex (8 December 2023). "Artist Mike Parr Dropped by Australian Gallery After Staging Piece Referencing Israel and Palestine". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  13. ^ Schrader, Adam (8 December 2023). "A Lyft Driver Took Off With a 17th-Century Murillo Painting at Art Miami". Artnet News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  14. ^ Schrader, Adam (11 December 2023). "A Murillo Painting That Went Missing at Art Miami Has Been Recovered". Artnet News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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  16. ^ "Art of Banksy | Exhibition". Art of Banksy.
  17. ^ "Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York at HOTA". 20 February 2023.
  18. ^ "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined".
  19. ^ "Through The Saga of the Sassoon Family, Exhibition Presents a Sweeping Global Narrative Over 100 Years of Art Collecting, Trade, Architectural Patronage, Philanthropy, and Civic Engagement". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  20. ^ "Picasso celebration: The collection in a new light! | VisitParisRegion".
  21. ^ "Never Above 14th Street | A Photo Journal".
  22. ^ "Never Above 14th St. A Downtown NYC Art Show: New York Auction Wednesday, March 8, 2023".
  23. ^ "Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence". FAMSF. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  24. ^ "Exhibition Manet / Degas | Musée d'Orsay".
  25. ^ "The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
  26. ^ "The Guggenheim Museum Presents". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
  27. ^ "Sarah Sze: Timelapse". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
  28. ^ a b "The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  29. ^ "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing - New York - Exhibitions - Acquavella Galleries".
  30. ^ "Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice - Hauser & Wirth | Hauser & Wirth". 11 April 2023.
  31. ^ "Rear-View". www.lgdr.com.
  32. ^ "The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti". Contemporary And.
  33. ^ "Young Picasso in Paris". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
  34. ^ "The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  35. ^ "Past | the Frick Collection".
  36. ^ "Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | NGV".
  37. ^ "Canova: Sketching in Clay". www.nga.gov.
  38. ^ "Gladiators: A Day at the Roman Games". 4 January 2023.
  39. ^ "Ed Ruscha / Now then".
  40. ^ "Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self | Curated by Cecilia Alemani, 555 West 24th Street, New York, September 12–October 21, 2023". 18 July 2023.
  41. ^ "Moki Cherry".
  42. ^ "Picasso in Fontainebleau". press.moma.org. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  43. ^ "Judy Chicago: Herstory".
  44. ^ "The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  45. ^ "Mark Rothko". www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr.
  46. ^ "Wystawa: Mattia Preti. Odkrywając barokowe tajemnice Malty | Łazienki Królewskie". www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl (in Polish). 20 October 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  47. ^ "The Barnes Foundation".
  48. ^ "Tracey Emin Opens White Cube New York". ocula.com.
  49. ^ "12 Must-See Museum Shows in the U.S. This Fall, from a Retrospective of ed Ruscha to Breathtaking Botticellis". 6 September 2023.
  50. ^ "12 Must-See Museum Shows in the U.S. This Fall, from a Retrospective of ed Ruscha to Breathtaking Botticellis". 6 September 2023.
  51. ^ "The Jewish Museum". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  52. ^ "Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs". The Australian Museum. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  53. ^ "Refik Anadol: Unsupervised | MoMA".
  54. ^ "Rear View at LGDR: A Transhistorical Selection of over Sixty Paintings".
  55. ^ "Arizona artist Lucinda Hinojos, 'La Morena,' inspired by community". 7 February 2023.
  56. ^ Sottile, Zoe (22 October 2023). "New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth". CNN. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  57. ^ "Marta Minujín bringing towering, psychedelic inflatable sculpture to Times Square". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 10 October 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  58. ^ "Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life". February 2023.
  59. ^ "Hank Willis Thomas Memorializes MLK and Coretta Scott King's Love". 15 January 2023.
  60. ^ "Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture". Gagosian. 26 January 2023.
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