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The year 2013 in art involved various significant events.

Events

  • March 9 – The identification of Portrait of Olivia Porter as an original work of the 1630s by Sir Anthony van Dyck is announced. It is in the collection of the Bowes Museum, County Durham, England.{{cite news|title=Van Dyck painting 'found online'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209|access-date=March 18, 2013|work=BBC News|date=March 9, 2013}} File:Olivia Boteler Porter before and after restoration.jpg
  • March 18 – The identification of Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet as an original work of 1635 by Rembrandt is announced. Hanging in Buckland Abbey, Devon, England, it is the only painting by this artist in the collection of the British National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty to whom it was gifted in 2010.{{cite web|title=Expert confirms painting is a Rembrandt |url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355774862560/ |publisher=National Trust |location=Swindon |date=March 18, 2013 |access-date=March 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321055502/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355774862560/ |archive-date=March 21, 2013 }}
  • April – The philanthropist and art collector Leonard Lauder promises for donation his important collection of Cubist works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris estimated to be valued at over one billion US dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/arts/design/leonard-lauder-is-giving-his-cubist-collection-to-the-met.html|title=Leonard Lauder Is Giving His Cubist Collection to the Met|first=Carol|last=Vogel|date=April 9, 2013|access-date=October 16, 2017|work=The New York Times}}
  • April 13 – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is re-opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands after a ten-year refurbishment.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22024351 Rijksmuseum set for grand reopening in Amsterdam], BBC News, April 4, 2013. Retrieved on April 4, 2013.
  • May – Extension to Lenbachhaus art museum, designed by Foster and Partners, is opened in Munich.
  • May 9 – Charles Ray's sculpture "Boy with Frog" is removed by the city of Venice from where it stood before the Punta della Dogana overlooking where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal. The work which had been commissioned by Francois-Henri Pinault to stand outside the aforementioned historic building which serves as an annex to his main museum housed in the Palazzo Grassi is replaced by a contemporary copy of a streetlamp which once stood at the same spot.{{cite web|author=Ignacio Villarreal |url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62452 |title=Venice removes controversial Boy with Frog statue by American artist Charles Ray |publisher=Artdaily.com |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • July–October – Gromit Unleashed in Bristol, England.{{cite web|last1=Mathias|first1=Vicki|title=Gromit Unleashed: Now we're all going "Gromiting"|url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-going-Gromiting/story-19498599-detail/story.html#axzz2aQxy4yJM|access-date=July 29, 2013|work=This is Bristol|date=July 10, 2013|last2=Beard|first2=George|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715043606/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-going-Gromiting/story-19498599-detail/story.html#axzz2aQxy4yJM|archive-date=July 15, 2013|url-status=dead}}
  • July 10 – Reclusive English artist Audrey Amiss dies at the age of 79 in London, leaving behind a personal archive including hundreds of albums and books, and around 50,000 sketches.{{Cite book |last1=Sharrocks |first1=Amy |url=https://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/daylight?_pos=2&_sid=0fb580f1b&_ss=r |title=Daylight |last2=Qualmann |first2=Clare |last3=Hodge |first3=Madeleine |publisher=Site Projects |year=2018 |isbn=978-09554379-8-4 |location=London |language=English}}
  • July 14 – The dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/news/features/rachel_carson/|title=Unveiling and Dedication of the Rachel Carson Statue|date=July 30, 2013|website=Northeast Fisheries Science Center|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|language=en|access-date=September 20, 2018}}
  • July 25 – Katharina Fritsch's sculpture Hahn/Cock is unveiled on the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.{{citation|title=Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited'|first=Laura|last=Barnett|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=July 24, 2013|access-date=July 25, 2013|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/24/katharina-fritsch-fourth-plinth-cockerel-sculpture}}
  • October – The English street artist Banksy stages an entire month of daily public installations all over New York City entitled "Better Out Than In".{{Cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/microsites/banksy-nyc/|title = Village Voice Exclusive: An Interview with Banksy, Street Art Cult Hero, International Man of Mystery|date = October 9, 2013}} File:Banksy 15 October installment in Better Out Than In New York City residency.jpg in TriBeCa]]
  • October 21 – Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin resigns citing personal reasons.{{cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/10/cleveland_museum_of_art_direct_1.html|title=Cleveland Museum of Art Director David Franklin resigns for personal reasons, effective immediately|website=Cleveland.com|date=October 22, 2013|access-date=October 16, 2017}} Numerous published sources later revealed that the married Franklin had been involved in an affair with a subordinate. When this revelation came to the attention of the board, Franklin chose to leave.{{cite web|url=http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/10/23/former-cleveland-museum-of-art-director-david-franklin-resigns-after-affair-suicide-cell-phone-of-victim-missing|title=Former Cleveland Museum of Art Director David Franklin Resigns After Affair, Suicide; Cell Phone of Victim Missing|first=Vince|last=Grzegorek|website=CleveScene.com|access-date=October 16, 2017}} The woman in question, Christina Gaston, committed suicide.{{cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/11/investigation_remains_closed_i.html|title=Investigation remains closed in the suicide of the lover of Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin, but questions linger|website=Cleveland.com|date=November 2, 2013|access-date=October 16, 2017}}
  • November 3 – The magazine Focus reveals that in March 2012, 121 framed and 1,258 unframed artworks were discovered by German customs authorities in an apartment in Schwabing, Munich. Seized from the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of 1930s and later degenerate art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, the cache includes works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Otto Dix and others.{{cite web|last=Hickley|first=Catherine|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-11/german-government-to-speed-up-research-on-munich-cache.html|title=Germany Says 590 Artworks in Munich Haul May Be Nazi Loot|publisher=Bloomberg|date=November 11, 2013|access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • November 12 – The triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud by the painter Francis Bacon sells for {{USD|link=yes}}142.4 million (including the buyer's premium) to an unnamed buyer at Christie's New York auction house, becoming the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-million-at-sothebys-auction.html|title={{-'}}The Scream{{'}} Is Auctioned for a Record $119.9 Million|last=Vogel|first=Carol|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 2, 2012|access-date=November 13, 2013}} The 2013 sale also represents the highest price paid for a work by a British artist, beating Bacon's Triptych 1976, which fetched $86.3 million in May 2008.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/arts/design/15auction.html|title=Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million|last=Vogel|first=Carol|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 15, 2008|access-date=November 13, 2013}}
  • November 19 – Museo Júmex in Mexico City, designed by David Chipperfield, is opened to show part of the contemporary art Colección Júmex.
  • November 20 – The "Graffiti Mecca" 5Pointz on the sides of a twentieth-century warehouse in Long Island City, Queens, New York, is whitewashed by a team of painters in the employ of the site's new developers.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chase-guttman/five-pointz_b_4317468.html|title=Rest in Peace, Five Pointz|first=Chase|last=Guttman|date=November 21, 2013|website=HuffingtonPost.com|access-date=October 16, 2017}}
  • November 25 – "The Church of Vezzoli", the PS1, New York City leg of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli's three part retrospective, "The Trinity", is cancelled after the church he arranged to buy in the town of Montegiordano for deployment in the exhibition is remanded in Italy prior to its leaving the country for the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/arts/design/francesco-vezzolis-art-show-hits-a-snag.html|title=Francesco Vezzoli's Art Show Hits a Snag|first1=Ted|last1=Loos|first2=Gaia|last2=Pianigiani|date=November 25, 2013|access-date=October 16, 2017|work=The New York Times}}
  • November 28 – The Tetley (Leeds) opens as a contemporary art gallery in England.
  • December 4 – Pérez Art Museum Miami, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is opened.{{cite news|first=Caroline|last=Roux|date=November 29, 2013|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/360d7b96-5363-11e3-b425-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2m8Xym042|title=Architect Christine Binswanger on Pérez Art Museum Miami|newspaper=Financial Times|location=London|access-date=December 29, 2013}}
  • December 12 – From today until March 16, 2014, the Dying Gaul is put on display in the main rotunda of the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This temporary tenure marks the first time the antiquity has left Italy since it was returned in the second decade of the nineteenth century after Napoleon brought it to the Louvre in 1797 as a plunder of war.

Exhibitions

  • February 1 until May 6 – "Carl Andre: Mass & Matter" at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, England.{{cite news|first=Alastair|last=Sooke|title=Carl Andre: Mass & Matter, Turner Contemporary, Margate, review|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9832202/Carl-Andre-Mass-and-Matter-Turner-Contemporary-Margate-review.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=January 28, 2013|access-date=February 1, 2013}}
  • February 3 until May 9 – "Llyn Foulkes" at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2013-feb-07-la-et-cm-0207-knight-foulkes-review-20130207-story.html|first=Christopher|last=Knight|title=Art review: Retrospective shows Llyn Foulkes' sharp eccentricity|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 7, 2013|access-date=March 18, 2013}}
  • February 15 until May 8 – "Gutai: Splendid Playground" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.{{cite news|first=Roberta|last=Smith|title=The Seriousness of Fun in Postwar Japan'Gutai: Splendid Playground' at the Guggenheim|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/gutai-splendid-playground-at-the-guggenheim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 14, 2013|access-date=March 4, 2013}}
  • March 5 until May 27 – "Street" by James Nares at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/nyregion/in-james-naress-street-taming-the-galloping-city.html|title=In James Nares's 'Street,' Taming the Galloping City|first=Martha|last=Schwendener|date=August 10, 2012|access-date=October 16, 2017|work=The New York Times}}
  • March 16 until June 16 – Karl Stirner "Transformations II: Works in Steel" at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania{{cite web|url=http://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/transformations-ii-works-in-steel-by-karl-stirner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613184450/http://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/transformations-ii-works-in-steel-by-karl-stirner |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 13, 2013 |title=Transformations II: Works in Steel by Karl Stirner – Michener Art Museum |publisher=Michenermuseum.org |date=June 16, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • March 23 – August 11 – "David Bowie is" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/david-bowie-is/about-the-exhibition|title=David Bowie is: About the Exhibition|website=www.VAM.ac.uk|access-date=October 16, 2017}}
  • May 3 until September 29 – "Jack Goldstein x 10,000" at the Jewish Museum in New York City.{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/jack-goldstein |title=The Jewish Museum New York | Art Exhibition | Jack Goldstein × 10,000 |publisher=Thejewishmuseum.org |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225080953/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/jack-goldstein |archive-date=December 25, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
  • May 12 until October 6 – "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music" at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C.{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/diaghilev.html |title=Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music |publisher=Nga.gov |date=October 6, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • May 23 until October 6 – "Hopper Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/HopperDrawing?gclid=CMvMs6i-hboCFVEaOgodemMAmw |title=Whitney Museum of American Art: Hopper Drawing |publisher=Whitney.org |date=May 16, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • May 29 until November 24 – "Galleria Vezzoli" by Francesco Vezzoli at MAXXI in Rome, Italy.{{cite web|author=Ignacio Villarreal |url=http://artdaily.com/news/62907/Galleria-Vezzoli-at-Maxxi--Over-90-works-in-the-first-Italian-retrospective-devoted-to-Francesco-Vezzoli |title=Galleria Vezzoli at Maxxi: Over 90 works in the first Italian retrospective devoted to Francesco Vezzoli |publisher=Artdaily.com |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • June 1 until October 27 – Sir Anthony Caro at the Museo Correr, Venice, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://correr.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/caro-at-correr/2013/02/9194/exhibition-3/ |title=Museo Correr | Exhibition |publisher=Correr.visitmuve.it |date=October 27, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • June 21 until September 25 – "James Turrell: Video Transcript at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4819 |title=James Turrell |publisher=Guggenheim.org |date=September 25, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223051612/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4819 |archive-date=December 23, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
  • June 22 until September 23 – "Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California.{{cite web|url=http://deyoung.famsf.org/press-room/richard-diebenkorn-berkeley-years-1953-1966|title=Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966|date=May 14, 2013|website=FAMSF.org|access-date=October 16, 2017}}
  • August 3 until November 3 – Peter Doig: "No Foreign Lands" at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/peter-doig/ |title=Peter Doig − Past − What's On − National Galleries of Scotland |publisher=Nationalgalleries.org |date=November 3, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • August 10 until November 3 – "Soundings: A Contemporary Score", at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1379 |title=Soundings: A Contemporary Score |publisher=MoMA |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • August 17 – January 5, 2014 – "Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk" at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.{{cite web|url=http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2013/hammer-projects-maya-hayuk/|title=Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk – Hammer Museum|website=The Hammer Museum|date=August 17, 2013 |access-date=October 16, 2017}}
  • September 22 until January 4, 2014 – "Milloff's Melville" at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut {{cite web|url=http://www.lymanallyn.org/milloffs-melville/ |title=Milloff's Melville |publisher=Lymanallyn.org |date=July 23, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • September 26 until January 4, 2014 – "Robert Indiana: Beyond Love" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/RobertIndiana |title=Whitney Museum of American Art: Robert Indiana: Beyond Love |publisher=Whitney.org |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • September 28, 2013, until January 6, 2014 – "The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris" at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/venice/exhibitions/the-avant-gardes-of-fin-de-siecle-paris |title=The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris |publisher=Guggenheim.org |date=September 28, 2013 |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228152014/http://www.guggenheim.org/venice/exhibitions/the-avant-gardes-of-fin-de-siecle-paris |archive-date=December 28, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
  • October 2 until January 14, 2014 – "Chris Burden: Extreme Measures" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/chris-burden-extreme-measures |title=Chris Burden: Extreme Measures |publisher=New Museum |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • October 4 until January 26, 2014 – "Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction" at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.{{cite web |url=http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_13Holtzman.php |title=Home of American Impressionism. Visit where the Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme Connecticut once lived |publisher=Florence Griswold Museum |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012212317/http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_13Holtzman.php |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
  • October 5 until March 16, 2014 – The Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=http://ci13.cmoa.org |title=2013 Carnegie International |publisher=Ci13.cmoa.org |access-date=December 24, 2013}}
  • October 23 until March – "Damage Control: Art and Destruction SINCE 1950" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.
  • October 24 until May 26, 2014 – Christopher Wool at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/christopher-wool |title = Christopher Wool |access-date=December 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109055259/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/christopher-wool |archive-date=January 9, 2014 |url-status=dead }}
  • November 7 until February 2 – ""And Materials and Money in Crisis" (curated by Richard Birkett in dialogue with Sam Lewitt) at MOMUK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) Vienna, Austria.{{cite web |url=https://www.mumok.at/sites/default/files/cms/01_pt_mumok_andmaterialsandmoneyandcrisis_e_0.pdf |title=and Materials and Money and Crisis |date=2013–2014 |website=Mumok}}
  • December 3 – February 23, 2014 – "Phyllida Barlow: Hoard" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.{{cite web|url=http://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=exhibitions.details&content_id=1096|title=Norton Museum of Art – Phyllida Barlow: Hoard|website=www.Norton.org|access-date=October 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016122411/http://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=exhibitions.details&content_id=1096|archive-date=October 16, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Works

  • March 5 – The Bay Lights, a 75th-anniversary site-specific monumental light sculpture and art installation on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge designed by light artist Leo Villareal, is inaugurated.{{cite news|last=Whiting|first=Sam|title=Bay Bridge to beam vivid light sculpture|url=http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Bay-Bridge-to-beam-vivid-light-sculpture-3872898.php|access-date=January 23, 2013|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=September 18, 2012}}
  • March 7 – Peter Fischli & David Weiss's Rock on Top of Another Rock is unveiled outside the Serpentine Galleries in London.{{cite web|url=http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/fischli/weiss-rock-top-another-rock|title=A question of stability|publisher=Serpentine Galleries|year=2013|access-date=July 5, 2014}}
  • March 16 – "Big Air Package" Christo filled the Gasometer Oberhausen with the "largest ever inflated envelops without aid of a skeleton" and the instillation continued until December 30.  It was the first major work by the artist following the passing of his wife and artistic collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/big-air-package-the-largest-inflated-envelope-in-history-by-christo/|title = Big Air Package: The Largest Inflated Envelope in History by Christo|date = March 18, 2013}}
  • April – The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, official painted portrait of The Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee, painted by Australian artist Ralph Heimans is shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.{{cite web|url =http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/exhibition_subsite_glorious.php|title =Glorious: A Diamond Jubilee portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=June 14, 2013}}
  • Pawel Althamer - The Venetians (created

for and exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale){{Cite web|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/pawel-althamer-venetians|title=Pawel Althamer's Venetians|date=January 27, 2014|website=W Magazine}}

Awards

Films

Deaths

References

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