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    • Source: 2010 in art

      • The year 2010 in art involves some significant events.


      Events


      February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million, at this time a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
      February–March – Artist Michael Landy hosts the Art Bin.
      March – Lawrence Salander, the former proprietor of the now closed Salander/O'Reilly Galleries pleads guilty to 29 felony counts of grand larceny and in August is sentenced to six to eighteen years in prison.
      March 3 – The New Museum in New York sparks controversy with Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection by deciding to exhibit works from the private collection of one of its trustees.
      May – MAXXI the new and first Italian national museum of contemporary art designed by architect Zaha Hadid opens in Rome.
      May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso is sold at Christie's for $106.5 million. There are more than half a dozen bidders, while the winning bid is taken via telephone.
      May 20 – Five paintings including works by Picasso and Matisse worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
      June 9 – American Cable television Bravo premieres a new series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, judges included Jerry Saltz, China Chow Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Bill Powers, and Simon de Pury.
      June 16 – The Royal Cornwall Museum in England sells two Victorian paintings (Herbert James Draper's The Sea Maiden and Ernest Normand's Bondage) at Christie's to help secure its finances.
      August – Launch of John Moores Painting Prize China.
      October – Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds (painted porcelain) installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
      December 6 – Museo del Novecento (Museum of Twentieth Century), dedicated to Italian Art of the Twentieth Century, with a small collection of other related European art opens in Milan.


      Exhibitions


      January 20 until April 18 – The Drawings of Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
      March 14 until May 31 – Marina Abramović, "The Artist is Present" at MoMA in New York City.
      "Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917" at The Art Institute of Chicago (March 20 – June 20) and MoMA, New York (July 18 – October 11), curated by Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield.
      June 13 until September 12 - Picasso Looks at Degas at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
      September 24 until January 11, 2011 – Bronzino Artist and Poet at the Court of The Medici in Florence, Italy.
      October 20 until January 30, 2011 – "David Hockney: Fleurs Fraiches (Fresh Flowers)" at the Foundation Pierre Bergé—Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, curated by Charlie Scheips.
      December 19 until March 21, 2011 – "Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures" at MoMA in New York City.


      Works



      David Annand - Rory Gallagher (sculpture)
      Sebastien Boyesen – Guardian (sculpture)
      Maurizio Cattelan – "L.O.V.E" (sculpture)
      Olafur Eliasson – Colour Activity House (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan)
      Katharina Fritsch – Hahn/Cock (sculpture)
      Rodney Graham – Aerodynamic Forms in Space (sculpture, Vancouver, British Columbia)
      Anthea Hamilton – Brick Suit (sculpture)
      Teresa Margolles – Muro Ciudad Juárez (instillation/sculpture)
      Jonathan Meese – Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft (sculpture)
      Julie Mehretu – Mural at Goldman Sachs Headquarters in New York City
      Wilhelm Sasnal – Anka
      Stik – A Couple Hold Hands in the Street (graffiti, East End of London)
      Cy Twombly - Celing Mural in the Salle des Bronzes of the Louvre in Paris, France
      Henry Ward – The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim
      Cajsa von Zeipel - Seconds in Ecstasy (sculpture, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden)
      Zhang Huan – Hehe Xiexie (sculpture, Shanghai, China)


      Awards


      Archibald Prize – Sam Leach for "Tim Minchin"
      Artes Mundi Prize – Yael Bartana
      Bucksbaum Award – Michael Asher,
      Henry Hope Reed Award for classical art and design – Vincent Scully
      John Moores Painting Prize – Keith Coventry for "Spectrum Jesus"


      Deaths


      January 5 – Kenneth Noland, 85, American Color Field painter
      January 27 – Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile Naive painter
      January 30
      Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer
      Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter
      February 25 – Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art dealer and collector
      March 1 – Ruth Kligman, 80, American painter, known as the muse of several important American artists of the mid 20th century notably Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning, and only survivor of Jackson Pollock's fatal car accident
      March 26 – Charles Ryskamp, American art collector and former director of The Frick Collection and The Morgan Library & Museum
      March 15 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter
      April 6 – Hans Schröder, 78, German sculptor and painter
      April 20
      Robert Natkin, 79, American Abstract painter
      Purvis Young, 67, American Abstract artist
      April 21 – Deborah Remington, 79, American Abstract artist
      April 24 – Giuseppe Panza, 87, Italian art collector
      April 29 – Avigdor Arikha, 80, Israeli painter, printmaker, and art historian
      May 9 – Craig Kauffman, 78, American Abstract artist
      May 18 – Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese painter, conceptual artist and architect
      May 29 – Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor and visual artist
      May 30 – Lester Johnson, 91, American painter
      May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American sculptor, artist
      June 3 – John Hedgecoe, 78, English photographer and author
      June 6 – Paul Wunderlich, 83, German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
      June 7 – Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor
      June 10 – Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer
      June 19 – Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, art dealer
      June 29 – Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter
      July 1 – Arnold Friberg, 96, American painter
      July 15 – Nicolas Carone, 93, American painter
      September 4 – Paul Conrad, 86, American political cartoonist and sculptor
      September 14 – Ralph T. Coe, 81, American art museum director (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
      September 23 – Stephen Pace, 91, American painter
      October 2 – Robert Goodnough, 92, American painter
      October 8 – Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor
      October 24 – Sylvia Sleigh, 94 American painter
      November 8 – Jack Levine, 95, American Social realist painter
      November 14 – Nathan Oliveira, 81, American painter
      November 23 – Nassos Daphnis, 96, American painter
      December 17 – Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician and visual artist
      December 24 – John Warhola, 85, American museum founder (The Andy Warhol Museum) and brother of Andy Warhol


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