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The year 2015 in art involved various significant events.

Events

  • February - Paul Gauguin's painting When Will You Marry? sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to Qatar Museums, the highest known price ever paid for any work of art
  • April - The accused rapist in the Emma Sulkowicz case which inspired the art piece "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" files suit in United States Federal Court in Manhattan against Columbia University, its art department chairman Jon Kessler, and the University president Lee C. Bollinger, saying through his attorneys, that he is the victim of gender discrimination and a "witch hunt".{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2015/04/24/accused-columbia-rapist-sues-school-for-bias-toward-alleged-victim/|work=New York Post|first=Julia|last=Marsh|title=Accused rapist sues Columbia|date=2014-04-24}}
  • April 2 - Sir Peter Blake's temporary artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle, Mersey Ferry MV Snowdrop painted in a variation of dazzle camouflage, enters service on the River Mersey in England.{{cite news|title=Liverpool's 'Dazzle ship' opens to public to mark WW1 centenary|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32158049|publisher=BBC|date=2015-04-02|access-date=2015-04-02}}
  • April 13 - A South African man is charged with vandalising a Johannesburg statue of Mahatma Gandhi by attempting to paint it white.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32287972|title=Mahatma Gandhi statue vandalised in Johannesburg|work=BBC News|access-date=2015-05-09|date=2015-04-13}}
  • May 1 - The new Whitney Museum of American Art facility in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, designed by Renzo Piano, opens.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/whitney-museums-monumental-new-digs-open-tomorrow-327239|work=Newsweek|title=Whitney Museum's Monumental New Digs Open May 1|first=Max|last=Kutner|date=2015-04-30|access-date=2015-12-20}} File:Whitney Gansevoort 2014 Nov jeh.jpg, New York]]
  • May 11 - One canvas, "Version O", the final painting from a series of fifteen paintings and numerous drawings entitled Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso created after the death of his friend and contemporary Henri Matisse sells for $179.4 million U.S (with fees) at Christie's in New York City thus establishing a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art.{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/|work=The New York Times|first=Scott|last=Reyburn|title=Picasso and Giacometti Artworks Top $120 Million Each at Christie's Sale|date=2015-05-11}} At the same sale "Pointing Man", a work by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti sells for $141.3 million U.S., making it the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction.{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/picassos-women-of-algiers-and-giacomettis-pointing-man-set-auction-records/a-18445006|title=Picasso's 'Women of Algiers' and Giacometti's 'Pointing Man' set auction records|work=DW|access-date=2015-12-20}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/12/picasso-painting-sells-for-record-179-million-but-are-we-all-paying-the-price/|title=Picasso painting sells for record $179 million, but are we all paying the price?|first=Michael E.|last=Miller|date=12 May 2015|access-date=6 December 2017|website=Washingtonpost.com}}
  • August 21 - Street artist Banksy opens Dismaland, a temporary art project in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England.{{cite web|title=Banksy fans flock to Weston-super-Mare after Dismaland show rumours|last=Morris|first=Steven|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2014-08-18|access-date=2015-08-18|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/18/banksy-weston-super-mare-dismaland}}
  • September - Rembrandt's early painting Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell) (from The Senses series, 1624-5) emerges at an auction in New Jersey and is purchased for the Leiden Collection in New York City.
  • September 20 - The Broad contemporary art museum in Downtown Los Angeles, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opens.
  • October 2 - La Artcore Gallery in Los Angeles, US, presents "Excessivist Initiative", an exhibition that marks the beginning of the Excessivism movement in art. {{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-excessivist-initiativ_b_8180840 |title=Excessivism: Irony, Imbalance and a New Rococo |website=huffpost.com/entry/the-excessivist-initiativ_b_8180840|date=September 23, 2015 }}
  • October 8 - Newport Street Gallery in South London, a conversion of 1913 theatrical workshops into a free public art gallery for Damien Hirst by Caruso St John architects opens.{{cite web|url=http://www.designboom.com/architecture/damien-hirst-newport-street-gallery-london-caruso-st-john-10-08-2015/|title=damien hirst's newport street gallery opens in london|date=8 October 2015|website=Designboom.com|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • November 10 - The Brigadier by Lucian Freud, a portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles in his British Army uniform sells for $34.89 million US at Christie's in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/11/lucian-freud-portrait-of-camillas-ex-husband-sells-for-nearly-35m|title = Lucian Freud portrait of Camilla's ex-husband sells for nearly $35m|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 11 November 2015}}
  • December 6 - A woman at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair stabs another in plain sight of art goers and the incident is at first ignored as people think that it is a work of performance art.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/woman-stabbed-at-art-basel-witnesses-thought-it-was-art/|title=Woman stabbed at Art Basel, witnesses thought it was art|work=Fox 411|date=2015-12-05|access-date=2015-12-20|publisher=Fox News}}

Exhibitions

  • January 31 until May 31 - Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=http://thewadsworth.org/exhibitions/coneyisland/|title=Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008|website=Thewadsworth.org|access-date=2015-05-09}}
  • February 6 until May 10 - Treasures from Chopin's Country. Polish Art from the 15th to 20th Century at the National Museum of China in Beijing.{{cite web|url=http://www.mnw.art.pl/en/temporary-exhibitions/treasures-from-chopins-country-polish-art-from-the-15th-to-20th-century,8.html|title =Treasures from Chopin's Country. Polish Art from the 15th to 20th Century|publisher=National Museum in Warsaw|access-date=July 14, 2015}}
  • February 6 until May 3 - Tapies: From Within at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/t%C3%A0pies-within |title = Tàpies: From Within |access-date=2018-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928175852/http://pamm.org/exhibitions/t%C3%A0pies-within |archive-date=2017-09-28 |url-status=dead }}
  • February 20 until May 24 - Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/kehinde_wiley_new_republic/|publisher=Brooklyn Museum|title=Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic|access-date=2015-05-09}} - then traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas from September 20 until January 10, 2016{{Cite web|url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Past/Kehinde-Wiley-A-New-Republic/1873|title=Current and Upcoming Exhibitions}} and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia from June 11. 2016 until September 5, 2016{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-a-new-republic/|title = VMFA | Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic|date = 5 September 2016}}
  • February 25 until May 24 - The "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience" at the New Museum in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-generational-triennial|title=2015 Triennial: Surround Audience|website=Newmuseum.org|access-date=9 May 2015}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/next-steps|title="Surround Audience" at the New Museum|first=Andrea K.|last=Scott|date=2015-03-30|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2015-05-09}}
  • February 1 until May 3 - Once in a Lifetime: Piero di Cosimo at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, then travels to Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (June 23–September 27, 2015).{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/exh/3412.html|title=Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence|access-date=2015-05-09}}
  • March 7 until June 7 - Björk (exhibition) at MOMA in New York City.
  • March 10 until September 20- Richard Estes: Painting New York City at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/richard-estes|title=Richard Estes - The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)|website=Madmuseum.org|access-date=9 May 2015}}
  • March 26 until September 13 - Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong at the Museum of Chinese in America" in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.mocanyc.org/exhibitions/water_to_paper_paint_to_sky_the_art_of_tyrus_wong|title=Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong|access-date=2015-05-09}}
  • May 9 until September 22 - "Sean Scully: Land Sea" at the Palazzo Falier in Venice, Italy.{{cite web |url=http://artdaily.com/news/78345/Major-exhibition-dedicated-to-Irish-artist-Sean-Scully-opens-at-Palazzo-Falier-in-Venice- |title=Major exhibition dedicated to Irish artist Sean Scully opens at Palazzo Falier in Venice |date=May 6, 2015 |website=artdaily.com}}
  • May 1 until September 27 - America is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{Cite web |url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AmericaIsHardToSee |title = America Is Hard to See May 1–Sept 27, 2015 {{!}} Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=2015-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628155744/http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AmericaIsHardToSee |archive-date=2015-06-28 |url-status=dead }}
  • May 17 - September 7 - "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971" at MOMA in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1494?locale=en|title=Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 - MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • June 5 until August 30 - Polish Art: Enduring Spirit at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul.{{cite web|url=http://www.mnw.art.pl/en/temporary-exhibitions/polish-art-enduring-spirit,12.html|title=Polish Art: Enduring spirit|publisher=National Museum in Warsaw|access-date=2015-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714144913/http://www.mnw.art.pl/en/temporary-exhibitions/polish-art-enduring-spirit,12.html|archive-date=2015-07-14|url-status=dead}}
  • June 13 until November 8 - Art in Dialogue: Duccio Caro at the National Gallery in London.{{cite web |title=Art in Dialogue: Duccio - Caro - Past exhibitions |website=National Gallery, London |url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/art-in-dialogue-duccio-caro }}
  • June 28 until October 4 - Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/arts/design/review-paris-is-reborn-in-gustave-caillebotte-the-painters-eye.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|first=Holland|last=Cotter|title=Review: Paris Is Reborn in 'Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye'|date=2015-07-09}}
  • June 30 until October 4 - "Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York CIty,{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2015/sargent|title=Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends - The Metropolitan Museum of Art|website=Metmuseum.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • July 10 until January 24, 2016 - No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990 at the Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London,[http://huntleysonline.com/f-h-a-l-m-a/exhibition/ "No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802020025/http://huntleysonline.com/f-h-a-l-m-a/exhibition/ |date=2015-08-02 }}, Huntleys Online.
  • July 18 until September 27 - Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes annual exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/|title=Prizes|website=Artgallery.nsw.gov.au|access-date=May 9, 2015}}
  • July 31 until November 8 - Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.{{cite web | url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/masterpieces-from-the-hermitage/ | title=Masterpieces from the Hermitage | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | access-date=July 14, 2015}}
  • August 14 until October 25 - Julia Margaret Cameron from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.{{cite web |url =http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/julia-margaret-cameron/|title =Julia Margaret Cameron |publisher =Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date =July 14, 2015}}
  • September 5 until October 3 - "Concrete Cuba" at the David Zwirner Gallery, London and then January 7, 2016 until February 20, 2016 at the David Zwirner Gallery, New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/concrete-cuba-0|title = Concrete Cuba | David Zwirner}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2016/concrete-cuba|title=Concrete Cuba | New York | January 7–February 20, 2016|website=David Zwirner|accessdate=7 May 2023}}
  • September 14 until February 7, 2016 - Picasso Sculpture at MOMA in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1559|title=Picasso Sculpture - MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • October 2 until October 29, 2016 - La Artcore gallery in Los Angeles, presented "Excessivist Initiative". The exhibition marked the beginning of the Excessivism movement. {{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-excessivist-initiativ_b_8180840 |title=Excessivism: Irony, Imbalance and a New Rococo |website=huffpost.com/entry/the-excessivist-initiativ_b_8180840|date=23 September 2015 }}
  • October 2 until January 17, 2016 - Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ArchibaldMotley|title=Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist - Whitney Museum of American Art|website=Whitney.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • October 7 until January 10, 2016 - Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action at the Frick Collection in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/del_sarto#sthash.dCq9Cvea.dpuf|title=Past Exhibition: Andrea del Sarto - The Frick Collection|website=Frick.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • October 9 until January 6, 2016 - Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/alberto-burri-the-trauma-of-painting |title = Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting |access-date=2015-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212022519/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/alberto-burri-the-trauma-of-painting |archive-date=2015-12-12 |url-status=dead }}
  • October 18 until January 10, 2016 - "Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art" curated by Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota then traveled to the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom from February 17, 2016 until May 22, 2016.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring16/whitmore-reviews-delacroix-and-the-rise-of-modern-art|title=Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art|journal=Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide|year=2016|volume=15|issue=1|last1=Whitmore|first1=Janet}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/delacroix-and-the-rise-of-modern-art|title = Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art | Past exhibitions | National Gallery, London}}
  • October 24 until February 14, 2016 - The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.{{cite web |url =http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/the-greats/|title =The Greats masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland|publisher =Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=July 14, 2015}}
  • October 30 until February 7, 2016 - Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/FrankStella|title=Frank Stella: A Retrospective - Whitney Museum of American Art|website=Whitney.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • November 5 until March 13, 2016 - Martin Wong: Human Instamatic at the Bronx Museum of Art.{{cite web|url=http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/martin-wong-human-instamatic|title=Martin Wong: Human Instamatic - Exhibitions - The Bronx Museum of the Arts|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.bronxmuseum.org|date=14 February 2016 |access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • November 18 until April 3, 2016 - Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then traveled to Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas from June 4 - August 21, 2016 and the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois from September 17, 2016 until January 8, 2017.https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/procession-art-norman-lewis
  • November 19 until February 21, 2016 - Nari Ward: Sun Splashed at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.{{cite web|url=http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/nari-ward-sun-splashed|title=Nari Ward: Sun Splashed|website=Pamm.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • November 21 until February 28, 2016 - Christopher Hart Chambers at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York.{{Cite web |title=December at the Nassau County Museum of Art |url=https://www.northwordnews.com/december-at-the-nassau-county-museum-of-art.html |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=northwordnews |language=en}}

Works

  • Atelier Van Lieshout - "Domestikator"{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/atelier-van-lieshout-domestikator-unveiled-centre-pompidou-1119602|title = Are Those Two Buildings Having Sex? Joep van Lieshout Explains His 'Misunderstood' Domestikator Project|date = 18 October 2017}}
  • Banksy – Portrait of Steve Jobs at Calais jungle.
  • Alberto Burri - Il Grande Cretto, Gibellina, Sicily, Italy (work begun in 1984 completed)
  • Molly Crabapple - Saints and Sinners (mural) commissioned for and displayed at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City.{{Cite web |last=Meacham |first=Steve |date=2019-01-09 |title=New York's Knickerbocker Hotel: Where F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) met his wife Zelda |url=https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/new-york-knickerbocker-hotel-20181126-h18clg.html |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}
  • Andy Edwards - Statue of The Beatles
  • Rubin Eynon - Gallos at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England
  • Dante Ferretti – Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life for Expo 2015 in Milan, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://www.expo2015.org/en/ortolino-arrives-in-buenos-aires--the-ferretti-statue-as-symbol-of-the-expo-milano-2015-theme |title = Ortolino arrives in Buenos Aires: the Ferretti Statue as Symbol of the Expo Milano 2015 Theme {{!}} Expo Milano 2015 |access-date=2015-11-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117030626/http://www.expo2015.org/en/ortolino-arrives-in-buenos-aires--the-ferretti-statue-as-symbol-of-the-expo-milano-2015-theme |archive-date=2015-11-17 }}
  • Rowan Gillespie - Bust of Archbishop John Hughes permanently installed at the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.irishecho.com/2015/11/archbishop-hughes-keeps-vigil | title=Archbishop Hughes keeps vigil }}
  • Anthea Hamilton – Project for Door (After Gaetano Pesce)
  • Jim and Christina Demetro - Stuates of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
  • Robert Liberace - The Fifth Circle{{Cite web|url=https://www.artrenewal.org/Salon2016/Artwork/Index/10679|title = 5th Circle by Robert Liberace}}
  • Peter Lundberg - Eye of Sauron installed on the Ossining, New York, waterfront.{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ossining-waterfront-sculpture-peter-lundberg/ | title=Battle Brewing over Controversial Sculpture Along Ossining Water Front | website=CBS News | date=2 July 2018 }}{{cite web | url=https://westchester.news12.com/sculpture-graces-ossining-waterfront-park-34894897 | title=Sculpture graces Ossining waterfront park }}
  • Michael Mandiberg - "Print Wikipedia"{{Cite web|url=https://www.mandiberg.com/print-wikipedia/|title=Michael Mandiberg|accessdate=7 May 2023}}
  • Cornelia Parker and collaborators – Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
  • Paul Rucker - "Storm in the Time of Shelter"{{Cite web|url=https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_560d673ce4b0768127010cf5|title = Artist Paul Rucker is Taking Back the Racist Symbols of America's Past|date = 2 October 2015}}
  • Thomas Sayre - Kerf sculptures, Portland, Oregon{{cite web|url=http://wunc.org/post/earthcaster-sculptor-collaborates-mother-earth-and-communities#stream/0|title=Earthcaster: A Sculptor Collaborates With Mother Earth And Communities|author1=Laura Lee|author2=Frank Stasio|website=Wunc.org|access-date=6 December 2017}}
  • Timothy Schmalz - Golden Leaves (statue of Gordon Lightfoot) in Orillia, Ontario{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/10/23/gordon-lightfoot-statue-unveiled-in-singers-hometown-of-orillia.html|title=Gordon Lightfoot statue unveiled in singer's hometown of Orillia|date=23 October 2015|website=thestar.com|accessdate=7 May 2023}}
  • Anne Storrs - Along These Lines, Portland, Oregon{{cite web|url=http://howweroll.trimet.org/2015/11/13/catch-the-orange-art/along-2/|title=Rhine-Lafayette Pedestrian Overpass - How We Roll|website=Howweroll.trimet.org|access-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206210218/http://howweroll.trimet.org/2015/11/13/catch-the-orange-art/along-2/|archive-date=6 December 2017|url-status=dead}}
  • Emma Sulkowicz – Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) continued from 2014 at Columbia University in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/30/carry_that_weight_emma_sulkowicz_s_mattress_becomes_a_national_movement.html|title=Carry That Weight: Emma Sulkowicz's mattress becomes a national movement.|work=Slate Magazine|date=30 October 2014|access-date=2015-05-09}}
  • Adrián Villar Rojas, "The Most Beautiful of All Mothers" in the Sea of Marmara off the island of Büyükada and in front of the Turkish home in exile of Leon Trotsky as part of the 2015 Istanbul Biennial in Istanbul, Turkey{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/07/istanbul-biennial-2015-an-overwhelming-meditation-on-the-tides-of-human-misery|title=Istanbul Biennial 2015: an overwhelming meditation on the tides of human misery|first=Adrian|last=Searle|date=7 September 2015|access-date=6 December 2017|website=Theguardian.com}}
  • Statue of Baphomet

Awards

  • Archibald Prize - Nigel Milsom for "Portrait of Charles Waterstreet{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-17/nigel-milsom-wins-archibald-prize-with-waterstreet-portrait/6627264|title = Former armed robber Nigel Milsom takes out Archibald Prize|website = Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date = 17 July 2015}}
  • Artes Mundi Prize - Theaster Gates
  • Käthe Kollwitz Prize - Bernard Frize[http://artreview.com/news/11_dec_2014_bernard_frize_wins_2015_kthe_kollwitz_prize/ Art Review, "Bernard Frize wins the 2015 Käthe Kollwitz Prize"]. Accessed 10 May 2015—The Venice Biennial (May 9- November 22) --
  • Leone d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement: El Anatsui, Ghana
  • Leone d'Oro for the Best Artist of the international exhibition: Adrian Piper, United States
  • Leone d'Oro for the Best Young Artist: Im Heung-soon, South Korea
  • Leone d'Oro for Best Pavilion: Armenia; Haig Aivazian, Nigol Bezjian, Anna Boghiguian, Hera Büyüktaş, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Mekhitar Garabedian, Aikaterini Gegisian, Yervant Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi, Aram Jibilian, Nina Katchadourian, Melik Ohanian, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Rosana Palazyan, Sarkis, Hrair Sarkissian, curated by Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg

Films

Deaths

References

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