2007 In Art

The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

* April - The Museo Alameda opens in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A
* 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.
* 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.
* 2 November – ''Nightwatching'', Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".
* 14 November – Sotheby's sells ''La Fuensanta'' by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.
* 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 City
* 10 May– 28 July - “Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas” at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York City
*14 June- 16 September - National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007"
* 23 June until 16 September - ''Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest'' at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico
*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

* Sanford Biggers - ''Blossom''
* 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)
* David Hockney – '' Bigger Trees Near Warter''
* Zhang Huan - ''Three Legged Buddha'' (sculpture)
* 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 – ''Alan Turing'' statue (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)
* Doris Salcedo – ''Shibboleth'' (installation at Tate Modern, London)
* Luke Sullivan – '' The Fourth Secret of Fatima'' (sculpture)
* 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).
* 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).
* 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).
* 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, 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, 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)

References

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