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2009 in art

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The year 2009 in art involved various significant events.

Events

  • May 31 – Jaume Plensa's concrete sculpture Dream is unveiled at a former colliery site in Sutton, St Helens, England.{{cite web|title=The Making of Sutton Manor's Dream|url=http://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/dreamsthelens.html|accessdate=2012-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312052547/http://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/dreamsthelens.html|archive-date=2012-03-12|url-status=dead}}
  • September 9 – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl, opens.
  • September 24 – René Magritte's painting Olympia (a nude portrait of his wife) is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels, by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about $1.1 million.{{Cite news |last=Chrisafis |first=Angelique |date=24 September 2009 |title=Magritte painting stolen at gunpoint |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/24/magritte-painting-stolen-brussels-olympia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921092018/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/24/magritte-painting-stolen-brussels-olympia |archive-date=21 September 2013 |access-date=24 September 2009 |work=The Guardian}}{{Cite news |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |date=24 September 2009 |title=Magritte Painting Stolen |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/magritte-painting-stolen/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928015158/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/magritte-painting-stolen/ |archive-date=28 September 2009 |access-date=24 September 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
  • October 16 – As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, premieres a concert at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art whereby it invited Luciano Chessa to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Luigi Russolo's Intonarumori instruments. This project offers the set of 16 original intonarumori (8 noise families of 1–3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. These intonarumori are physically built by luthier Keith Cary in Winters, California, under Chessa's direction and scientific supervision{{Cite web |title=Russolo Concert of Futurist instruments for Performa |url=http://archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/archiv/festivals2011/02maerzmusik11/mm11_programm/mm11_programm_gesamt/mm11_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_18144.php/Luigi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416183055/http://archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/archiv/festivals2011/02maerzmusik11/mm11_programm/mm11_programm_gesamt/mm11_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_18144.php/Luigi |archive-date=16 April 2014 |language=de}}
  • October 29 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards in New York.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2009/3080-rob-pruit-winners-release/ |title=Rob Pruitt and the Guggenheim Launch an Awards Show |access-date=2014-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182845/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2009/3080-rob-pruit-winners-release/ |archive-date=2014-04-16 |url-status=dead }}
  • November 14 – Nottingham Contemporary opens as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham, a new gallery in Nottingham, England, designed by Caruso St John.
  • December 31 — Edgar Degas's 1877 pastel Les Choristes is stolen from the Musée Cantini in Marseille; it will be found in the luggage compartment of a bus outside Paris in 2018.

Exhibitions

  • April 29 until August 2 - "The Pictures Generation", curated by Douglas Eklund, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.{{cite web |year=2009 |title=The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/pictures-generation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203211455/https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/pictures-generation |archive-date=3 February 2012 |access-date=22 November 2022 |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
  • November 13 until February 28, 2010

"Botticelli : likeness, myth, devotion" at the Städel Museum, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.[http://link.library.missouri.edu/portal/Botticelli--likeness-myth-devotion--an/d63biu Botticelli likeness myth devotion] University of Missouri Library {{Dead link|date=February 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}

Works

{{see also|Category:2009 paintings|Category:2009 sculptures}}

Awards

  • The Archibald Prize - Guy Maestri for "Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu"{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2009 finalist: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu by Guy Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2009/28778/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606230934/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2009/28778/ |archive-date=6 June 2014}}
  • The Venice Biennial - (June 7 - November 22)
  • Lion d'or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Yoko Ono (Japan), John Baldessari (USA)
  • Lion d'or for Best Pavilion: The United States of America exhibiting the work of Bruce Nauman

Deaths

References

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