2019 in art

The year 2019 in art involved various significant events.

Events

February – Burger King launches an advertising campaign called "Eat Like Andy" in the United States. The television spot which premieres during Super Bowl LIII features archival documentary film footage from 66 Scenes from America by Jørgen Leth of the pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) unwrapping and eating a Burger King Whopper, footage approved for use by the fast food giant courtesy of the Andy Warhol Foundation. Prior to the game the mass market hamburger chain makes available to viewers who ordered it in advance via DoorDash an "Andy Warhol Mystery Box" which contains among other items a plastic bottle of ketchup and a platinum wig so one can "Eat Like Andy".{{cite web|url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/advertising-marketing/why-burger-king-showed-andy-warhol-eating-burger-its-super-bowl-commercial|title=Why Burger King showed Andy Warhol eating a burger in its Super Bowl commercial|first=Jessica|last=Wohl|work=Crain's New York Business|date=2019-02-05|access-date=2019-02-15}}{{cite web|url=https://www.elitedaily.com/p/burger-kings-andy-warhol-super-bowl-commercial-features-icon-a-classic-15919760|work=elite daily|date=February 2019|access-date=2019-02-05|title=Burger King's Andy Warhol Super Bowl Commercial Features An Icon & A Classic|first=Mehak|last=Anwar}}
March
Italian scholars announce their opinion that a sculpture, The Virgin with the Laughing Child, loaned for an exhibition in Florence from London's Victoria and Albert Museum, is a work by Leonardo da Vinci of about 1472, making it the artist's only known surviving sculpture.{{cite news|first=Jonathan|last=Jones|author-link=Jonathan Jones (journalist)|title=V&A work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, making it his only surviving sculpture|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=2019-03-09|page=9|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/09/italian-scholars-unveil-leonardo-da-vincis-only-surviving-sculpture|access-date=2019-03-10}}
The Brant Foundation study center inaugurates a new East Village, Manhattan, New York City space in a former power station with an updated design by Gluckman Tang Architects. The opening exhibition is of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the neighborhood in which many of them were created.
David Hockney settles at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy, where he will begin a long series of graphic artworks, initially of the Spring.{{cite book|first=Martin|last=Gayford|title=Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2021|isbn=978-0-500-09436-5}}
March 8–15 – The collection of work from the Young British Artists circle made from the mid-1990s by English pop singer George Michael (d. 2016) (including portraits of him by Jim Lambie and Michael Craig-Martin) is displayed and auctioned at Christie's, London, for charity.
March 22 – The painting Vase with Poppies (oil on canvas 1886) by Vincent van Gogh held in the permanent collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, having been called into question by art historian Walter Feilchenfeldt in 1990, is declared authentic by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where it has been sent to determine its status as to whether it was a work by the hand of the artist or an impostor.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/arts/design/van-gogh-painting-authentic.html|title=Disputed Painting Is a Real van Gogh, Researchers Say|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=24 March 2019|publisher=}}
April 13–22 – Bird and Nature Festival (Festival de l'oiseau et de la nature){{Cite web |title=29ème édition du 13 au 22 avril 2019 |url=https://www.festival-oiseau-nature.com/ |access-date=2018-12-28 |website=www.festival-oiseau-nature.com |language=fr}}
May 1 – In the United Kingdom, a sketch of a bearded man in the Royal Collection is identified as Leonardo da Vinci. It will be displayed for the first time in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace between May 24 and October 13, 2019, marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death; as part of an exhibition which is set to be the largest showing of da Vinci's work in over 65 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/sketch-of-bearded-man-identified-as-leonardo-da-vinci|title=Sketch of Bearded Man 'Identified as Leonardo da Vinci'|date=1 May 2019|access-date=2 May 2019|work=Bloomberg News}}
May 15 – Rabbit, a 1986 stainless steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, sells at auction at Christie's in New York City for slightly more than $91 million U.S. setting a new record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist ever sold at auction, besting the previous mark of $90 plus million achieved by the David Hockney painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) which changed hands at the same branch of the same auction house in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-jeff-koons-sculpture-the-priciest-for-any-living-artist-20190518-yc3t5wtdkfca7ejvv2aqhy5q5e-story.html|title=Jeff Koons' $91 million sculpture the priciest sold for any living artist|website=New York Daily News|date=17 May 2019 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.dogonews.com/2019/5/19/american-artist-jeff-koons-rabbit-sculpture-auctions-for-a-record-91-dollars-million|title = American Artist Jeff Koons' "Rabbit" Sculpture Auctions for a Record $91 Million| date=28 May 2021 }}
May 30–31 – Fédération photographique de France v Aurillacu{{Cite web |title=Accueil |url=https://federation-photo.fr/ |access-date=2018-12-28 |website=Fédération Photographique de France |language=fr-FR}}
June 6 – David Williams-Ellis's three bronze figures of soldiers are inaugurated as the first part of the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer on Gold Beach.{{cite web|first=Dale Berning|last=Sawa|title=Comrades for ever: how D-day bravery was sculpted in bronze|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/06/british-normandy-memorial-france-david-willaims-ellis-sculpture|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2019-06-06|access-date=2019-06-06}}
July 1–2 – International Photographic Federation Bièvres (Fédération photographique de France)
July 1–September 22 – Rencontres d'Arles
August – The National Gallery in London in preparing Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks for an upcoming exhibition of work from the hand of the Florentine master at the museum discover beneath the finished painting an abandoned composition as well other assorted sketches by the storied creator of the Mona Lisa and not seen for more than five hundred years.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/leonardo-da-vinci-sketches-revealed-scli-gbr-intl/index.html|title=Sketches hidden underneath Leonardo masterpiece revealed after 500 years|website=CNN|date=14 August 2019}}
September – A mural originally called "City" designed and created in 1929 at the Bauhaus by Josef Albers then sandblasted and reworked in the 1960s into the work "Manhattan" as commissioned by Walter Gropius for the PanAm Building is once more recreated from diagrams containing the artist's specifications (after the original was unrecoverable due to asbestos). It is then restored to its former home facing onto the skyscraper's lobby and atop the summit of the escalators moving up and down and into and out of Grand Central Terminal.{{cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/manhattan-returns-to-its-rightful-place-outside-grand-central-station|title = Josef Albers's Manhattan returns to its rightful place in the MetLife building|date = 23 September 2019}}
September 7 – A Dallas, Texas man, Tevon Varlack, strikes the Wall Street Bull by Arturo Di Modica with a banjo leaving a sizable dent in the horn area of the work.{{cite web |url=https://www.abc7ny.com/amp/police-man-vandalizes-wall-street-charging-bull-landmark-with-banjo/5522765/ |title=Man Vandalizes Iconic Wall Street Charging Bull Landmark with Banjo, Police Say |access-date=2019-09-08 |archive-date=2019-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920232214/https://abc7ny.com/amp/police-man-vandalizes-wall-street-charging-bull-landmark-with-banjo/5522765/ |url-status=dead }} During the following month, Di Modica and a team of metal workers from an upstate New York foundry arrive at the site and fix the wound to the artwork.{{cite web|url=https://abc7ny.com/repairs-underway-on-wall-street-charging-bull-/5641092/|title = Repairs underway on Wall Street Charging Bull after vandalism|date = 23 October 2019}}
September 14 – The sculpture America, an 18-karat solid gold toilet, by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is stolen while installed at Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom, where it was available for use as part of an exhibition of Cattelan's works (while on loan from the permanent collection of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/03/flushed-with-success-solid-gold-toilet-to-be-installed-at-blenheim|title=Flushed with success: solid-gold toilet to be installed at Blenheim|first=Mark|last=Brown|date=May 3, 2019|work=The Guardian|location=London}} It had been placed in a water closet formerly used by Winston Churchill.{{cite news|title=Maurizio Cattelan Has Installed His Golden Toilet in the Stately Bathroom Where Winston Churchill Once Sat|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/maurizio-cattelan-blenheim-palace-1649932|access-date=15 September 2019|work=artnet News|date=13 September 2019}}{{cite news|title=Busted flush: gold toilet reportedly stolen from Blenheim Palace|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/14/gold-toilet-reportedly-stolen-blenheim-palace-cattelan|access-date=14 September 2019|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=14 September 2019}} As the work had been connected to the building's water pipes, the theft therein caused structural damage and flooding.{{cite news|first1=Emily|last1=Dixon|first2=Augusta|last2=Anthony|title=Solid gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace|url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/uk-blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-gbr-intl/index.html|access-date=15 September 2019|work=CNN Style|date=14 September 2019|language=en}} A man is arrested in connection with the incident.{{cite web|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/police-seeking-maurizio-cattelan-s-stolen-gold-toilet|title='I wish it was a prank': Maurizio Cattelan on the surreal theft of his golden toilet|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|date=14 September 2019}} Cattelan later commented: "I always liked heist movies and finally I'm in one of them."{{cite news|title=Artist behind £4.8m gold toilet praises thieves who have taken it|url=https://news.sky.com/story/solid-gold-toilet-stolen-from-winston-chuchill-birthplace-blenheim-palace-11809266|access-date=15 September 2019|work=Sky News|language=en}}
October 1 – A presumed Banksy art exhibition appears in a shop window in Croydon, London.{{cite web|title='Banksy' display featuring Stormzy stab vest appears in Croydon|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49895129|work=BBC News|date=2019-10-01|access-date=2019-10-01}}
October 3 – Banksy's painting Devolved Parliament (2009) is sold at Sotheby's, London, for just under £9.9m.{{cite web|title=Banksy painting of MPs as chimpanzees sells for £9.9m|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49924281|work=BBC News|date=2019-10-03|access-date=2019-10-04}}
October 7 – The Wall Street Bull by Arturo Di Modica is targeted for a second time when Extinction Rebellion activists throw fake blood over it and stage a die-in on the traffic plaza which is the sculpture's immediate surround.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/10/07/extinction-rebellion-new-yorks-wall-street-bull-doused-blood/3898176002/|title = Global climate protests: Activists pour fake blood on famous Wall Street bull|website = USA Today}}
October 21 – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City which closed for improvements in June reopens after a $450 million makeover and the creation of additional galleries executed by the architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2019/10/16/moma-reopens-museum-modern-art-new-york-opens-oct-21/3983343002/|title = 'A new MoMA': New York's Museum of Modern Art reopening after $450 million expansion|website = USA Today}}
October 28 – Cimabue's Mocking of Christ (13th century), found in June hanging in a domestic French kitchen, sells at auction in France for 24 million euros (including fees).{{cite news|title=Cimabue painting found in French kitchen sets auction record|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50201691|work=BBC News|date=2019-10-27|access-date=2019-10-28}}
November – The Baltimore Museum of Art announces that during all of 2020 they will only acquire works created by women artists.{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/11/15/baltimore-museum-art-will-only-acquire-works-by-women/| title = Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works by women in 2020| newspaper = The Washington Post}}
November 7–10 – Paris Photo in Grand Palais in Paris
November 14 – The Venice Biennale temporarily closes due to the highest flood waters to beset the city in some fifty years.{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-close-floods-1702095|title = The Venice Biennale Shuts Down as the City is Hit by Its Worst Floods in Half a Century|date = 13 November 2019}}
November 25 – Thieves break into the Green Vault at the Dresden Castle in Dresden, Germany and steal an inestimable horde of jewelry and other precious objects dating back to the 18th century belonging to the German state of Saxony.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/priceless-baroque-jewels-stolen-in-german-museum-heist-11574694746|title = Hoard of Baroque Jewels Stolen in German Museum Heist|newspaper = Wall Street Journal|date = 26 November 2019}}

File:Banana duct taped to fridge as a reminder to eat less meat.jpg – The banana and duct tape in Comedian, an artwork created in an edition of three for the 2019 installation of Art Basel Miami Beach by Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of the aforementioned fruit held to a wall by duct tape (the initial one of which was sold to an unnamed French art collector for US$120,000) is summarily eaten by David Datuna a self-styled performance vigilante who names his piece Hungry Artist and says of the finished work "It was very delicious". Galerie Perrotin, the exhibitor of the work at the art fair, replaces the fruit and states that the work is an "idea".{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/08/banana-artwork-that-fetched-120000-is-eaten-by-hungry-artist|title = Banana artwork that fetched $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 8 December 2019}}]]

December – A gardener at the Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi in Piacenza, Italy stumbles upon the Gustav Klimt painting Portrait of a Lady which had been stolen from the same museum in 1997. It turns out the thieves – one of whom later grants an interview – planted the work back there four years earlier after the statute of limitations had run out on the theft. The picture, which is subsequently authenticated, was painted above an earlier work of a lover who died young. Portrait of a Lady is now valued at upwards of $65 million US. Of the one million plus works of art listed on the Italian theft database it was rated as the second most important following Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence which was stolen from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969.{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/gustav-klimts-portrait-of-a-lady-returned-in-italy-by-guilty-thieves?ref=scroll|title = Guilty Thieves Explain Why They Gave Back Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady'|newspaper = The Daily Beast|date = 22 January 2020|last1 = Nadeau|first1 = Barbie Latza}}
December 7 – The banana in Comedian, an artwork created in an edition of three for the 2019 installation of Art Basel Miami Beach by Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of the aforementioned fruit held to a wall by duct tape (the initial one of which was sold to an unnamed French art collector for US$120,000) is summarily eaten by David Datuna a self-styled performance vigilante who names his piece Hungry Artist and says of the finished work "It was very delicious". Galerie Perrotin, the exhibitor of the work at the art fair, replaces the fruit and states that the work is an "idea".
December 10 – Rebecca Salter is elected as the first female President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, taking up office the following month.{{cite news|title=Rebecca Salter Becomes Twenty-Seventh President of The Royal Academy|url=https://www.artlyst.com/news/rebecca-salter-becomes-twenty-seventh-president-royal-academy/|access-date=2020-01-29|work=Artlyst|date=2019-12-10}}
December 28 – The Picasso painting Bust of a Woman on display at London's Tate Modern is damaged by a visitor.{{cite web|title=Picasso painting attacked at Tate Modern|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50956400|work=BBC News|date=2019-12-31|access-date=2019-12-31}}

Exhibitions

January 23 until April 14 – "Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold" at the Met Breuer and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue in New York City.{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/lucio-fontana-on-the-threshold |title=Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
January 25 until July 10 and then July 24 until January 5, 2020 – "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now" featuring the work of Robert Mapplethorpe at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{cite web|title=Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/mapplethorpe|website=Guggenheim.org|access-date=4 January 2019}}
February 5 until March 9 – Mirosław Bałka -"Random Access Memory" at White Cube in London.{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/art/this-weeks-best-new-art|title=This week's best art|website=TimeOut|access-date=4 February 2019}}
February 8 until May 12 – "Frida Kahlo – Appearances can be Deceiving" at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/frida_kahlo|title=Brooklyn Museum: Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}
February 9 until April 6 – "Jasper Johns – Recent Paintings and Works on Paper" at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/04/art-events-nyc-african-restitution-jasper-johns-frida-kahlo/|title=9 Art Events in New York This Week: African Art Restitution, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, and More|website=ARTnews|date=4 February 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/jasper-johns/|title=Jasper Johns|website=Matthew Marks Gallery|access-date=2019-02-17|archive-date=2019-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217142434/https://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/jasper-johns/|url-status=dead}}
February 14 until May 20 – William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum" at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/william-hunter-and-anatomy-modern-museum|title=William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum|website=Yale Center for British Art|access-date=2019-03-29|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329002108/https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/william-hunter-and-anatomy-modern-museum|url-status=dead}}
February 14 until. April 7 – "Piero Manzoni: Materials of His Time" at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Los Angeles and then at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York City from April 26 until July 19.{{cite web|url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/23122-piero-manzoni-materials-time|title=Piero Manzoni Materials of His Time|website=Hauser & Wirth}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/24197-piero-manzoni-lines-materials-time|title=Exhibitions — Piero Manzoni Lines, Materials of His Time - Piero Manzoni|website=Hauser & Wirth}}
February 19 until June 2 – "Moroni; The Richness of Renaissance Portraiture" at the Frick Collection in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/moroni|title=Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture|website= The Frick Collection}}
February 21 until July 7 – "Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence" at the Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy and then traveled to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from September 15 until January 12, 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/andrea-del-verrocchio-renaissance-florence.html|title=Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence|website=www.nga.gov|accessdate=26 March 2023}}
February 24 until June 15 – "Joan Miró: The Birth of the World" at MOMA in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/joan-miro-birth-of-the-world/|title=Joan Miró: Birth of the World|date=15 February 2019|website=Apollo Magazine}}
March 1 until June 16 – "Matthew Barney: Redoubt" at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut and then from September 28 until December 15 at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and from March 4, 2020, until May 10, 2020, at the Hayward Gallery in London.{{cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/ctnow/arts-theater/hc-ctnow-matthew-barney-yale-new-haven-0331-20190327-kgjskygw2rdr3n2m6f3c4kklxm-story.html|title=Matthew Barney is at it again. Film, sculpture, engravings come together to create 'Redoubt' at Yale|first=Susan|last=Dunne|website=courant.com|date=27 March 2019 }}{{cite web|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/matthew-barney-redoubt|title=Matthew Barney: Redoubt|website=Yale University Art Gallery}}
March 7 until May – Ashley Longshore: 37 large scale portraits of iconic female figures for Women's History Month at the Diane von Furstenberg store in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/03/diane-von-furstenberg-ashley-longshore-in-store-show|title=Diane von Furstenberg and Painter Ashley Longshore Team up for an Awe-Inspiring In-Store Show|website=Vanity Fair|date=6 March 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/diane-von-furstenberg-ashley-longshore-060021659.html|title = Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Longshore Team up on Art Collection| date=4 March 2019 }}
March 9 until September 8 - "Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist" at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/phoenix-art-museum-agnes-pelton-desert-transcendentalist|title = Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist|website=Artsy}}
April 1 until April 13, 2022 - "Damien Hirst: Four Large Sculptures" at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, West Yorkshire, England{{cite web |url=https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions/damien-hirst |title=Damien Hirst |website=Yorkshire Sculpture Park}}
May 2 until September 15 – "Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes" at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/roger-brown-0|title = Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes}}
May 7 until November 17 – "Helen Frankenthaler: Pittura/Panorama" at the Museum of Palazzo Grimani in Venice, Italy.{{cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/features/2019-Venice-Biennale-Helen-Frankenthaler-9864-1.aspx|title=Frankenthaler in Venice | Christie's}}
May 10 until July 28 – "Alberto Burri: La pittura, irriducibile presenza" at the Cini Foundation in Venice, Italy.{{cite news |last1=Wullschläger |first1=Jackie |author-link=Jackie Wullschläger |date=3 May 2019 |title=The ecstatic nihilism of the painter Alberto Burri |url=https://www.ft.com/content/941afbf6-6a5e-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6d84 |newspaper=Financial Times}}
May 10 until October 20 – "Jean Dubuffet & Venezia" at the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice.{{cite web|url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/05/09/jean-dubuffet-retrospective-opening-in-venice-for-the-citys-art-biennale.html|title = Jean Dubuffet retrospective opening in Venice for the city's art biennale}}
May 11 until August 18 - David Hammons at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, California.{{cite web|url=https://ocula.com/art-galleries/hauser-wirth/exhibitions/david-hammons/|title = Exhibition | 'David Hammons' at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, USA|date = 23 November 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-david-hammons-hauser-wirth-review-20190618-story.html|title=Review: If an artist sets up a homeless camp inside a blue-chip art gallery, does anyone care?|website=Los Angeles Times|date=18 June 2019}}
May 11 until October 13 – "Sean Scully: Human" at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/sean-scully-venice-1480021|title = Painter Sean Scully is Planning a Deeply Personal Exhibition in a Venice Church That Will Pay Tribute to His Lost Son|date = 5 March 2019}}
May 17 until September 22 – "The Whitney Biennial 2019" curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/exhibitions/2019-Biennial|title = Whitney Biennial 2019}}
May 30 until September 1 – "Lee Krasner: Living Color" at the Barbican Art Gallery.{{cite web|url=https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/lee-krasner-living-colour|title = Lee Krasner|website=Barbican| date=30 May 2019 }}
June 8 until September 22 – "Renoir: The Body, The Senses" at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts{{cite web |title=Renoir: The Body, The Senses |url=https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/renoir/exhibition |website=Clark Art Institute |access-date=April 3, 2022}}
June 9 until December 13 – "Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass" at Madison Square Park in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.madisonsquarepark.org/mad-sq-art/leonardo-drew-city-in-the-grass|title = Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass}}
June 10 until September 29 - Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech at MOCA in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web|url=https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2019/Virgil-Abloh|title = MCA - Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech"}}
June 19 until September 8 - "Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking" at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.{{cite web|url=https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/june/cutting-edge-modernist-british-printmaking|title=Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking|website=Dulwich Picture Gallery}}
June 28 until December 1 – "The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100" at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia.{{cite web |url=https://thecomingworld.garagemca.org/index-eng.html |title=There is no nature |access-date=2019-06-30 |archive-date=2019-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630002159/https://thecomingworld.garagemca.org/index-eng.html |url-status=dead }}
July 11 until November 8 – "Carmen Herrera: "Estructuras Monumentales" at City Hall Park in New York City, New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/carmen-herrera-s-dream-project-is-realised-at-new-york-s-city-hall-park|title=Carmen Herrera's dream project to bloom in New York's City Hall Park|date=8 July 2019}}
September 10 until October 26 – "Paul Klee: 1939" at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/1939|title=Paul Klee: 1939|website=David Zwirner Gallery}}
September 18 until October 18 - "Kacper Abolik: Year of the Dog" at the Baum School of Art in Allentown, Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=https://www.baumschool.org/exhibitions/kacper-abolik-year-of-the-dog|title = The Baum School of Art}}
September 18 until January 12, 2020 – "Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence" at the Frick Collection in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/bertoldo|title=Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence|website=The Frick Collection}}
October 4 until January 12, 2020 – John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/john-singer-sargent|title=John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal|date=14 February 2019}}
October 5 until February 23, 2020 - Turner: Watercolors from Tate at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.{{cite web | url=https://thisismystic.com/event/exhibition-opening-j-m-w-turner-watercolors-from-tate/ | title=Exhibition Opening: J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate in Mystic, CT }}
October 7 until January 5, 2020 - "The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition Maximilian I" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City curated by Pierre Terjanian.{{cite press release |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2019/the-last-knight |title=The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
October 9 until January 5, 2020 – "Hogarth: Place and Progress" at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.{{cite web|url=https://www.soane.org/whats-on/exhibitions/hogarth-place-and-progress|title=Hogarth: Place and Progress|date=4 March 2019}}
October 19 until January 20, 2020 - Felix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/felix-vallotton-painter-disquiet | title=Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet }}
October 26 until February 23, 2020 - "Edward Hopper and the American Hotel" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.{{cite web|url = https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/edward-hopper-american-hotel/|title = Edward Hopper and the American Hotel - Exhibitions|date = 23 February 2020|access-date = 11 December 2019|archive-date = 30 November 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191130030118/https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/edward-hopper-american-hotel/|url-status = dead}}
November 25 until March 1. 2020 - "Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/making-marvels-science-splendor | title=Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe }}

Works

Jean-Marie Appriou – The Horses installed on the corner of East 60th street at Central Park in New York City{{cite web|url=https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/jean-marie-appriou-the-horses/|title = Jean-Marie Appriou: The Horses|website=Public Art Fund}}
Maurizio Cattelan – Comedian{{cite web|url=https://hypebeast.com/2019/12/maurizio-cattelan-banana-duct-tape-art-basel-miami-beach-120k-usd|title = An Artist Ate the $120K USD Banana at Art Basel Miami Beach (UPDATE)|date = 8 December 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-maurizio-cattelan-banana-memes-1726233|title = How the Unhinged Reaction to Maurizio Cattelan's Banana Revealed the Thin Line Between the Art World and Total Anarchy|date = 9 December 2019}}
George Condo – "Constellation of Voices" (aluminum and gold leaf sculpture) placed on the terrace of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/arts/design/george-condo-sculpture-metropolitan-opera.html|title=A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It's a George Condo Creation|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 October 2019|last1=Sheets|first1=Hilarie M.}}
David Datuna – Hungry Artist{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-50704138/david-datuna-artist-eats-120000-banana-art-at-gallery|title = The appetising art driving people bananas|work = BBC News}}
Martin Dawe
The First Graduate
The Three Pioneers
Bob Dylan - Little Italy{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}
Leandro Erlich - "Order of Importance" installed on the beach in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.{{cite web| url = https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article238010369.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191217210000/https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article238010369.html| archive-date = 2019-12-17| title = Art Basel caused this South Beach traffic jam — and that's a good thing| website = Miami Herald}}
Meth Fountain - Pain at FIAC in Paris{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-maurizio-cattelan-banana-memes-1726233 | title=How the Unhinged Reaction to Maurizio Cattelan's Banana Revealed the Thin Line Between the Art World and Total Anarchy | date=9 December 2019 }}
Jean Luc Godard Le Studio d'Orphée at the Fondazione Prada in Milan{{cite web | url=https://thespaces.com/step-into-jean-luc-godards-office-recreated-at-fondazione-prada/ | title=Step into Jean-Luc Godard's office – recreated at Fondazione Prada | date=10 December 2019 }}
Isaac Julien – Lessons of the Hour (film installation)"Anatomy of an artwork: Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour". The Guardian (London) The Guide 31 July–6 August 2021 p. 25.
Titus Kaphar – Flay (James Madison)
Jeff Koons - Bouquet of Tulips (permanently installed in Paris, France){{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-tulips-poll-1682545|title=What Do the French Think of Jeff Koons's Divisive Gift? We Asked People on the Street|first=Naomi|last=Rea|date=18 October 2019|website=Artnet News|accessdate=26 March 2023}}
Alicja Kwade – "ParaPivot" (Metropolitan Museum of Art roof garden commission){{cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/alicja-kwade-metropolitan-museum-1518685|title = Artist Alicja Kwade Wants You to Pause and Reflect on the Cosmic Wonder and Vastness of the Universe| newspaper=Artnet News |date = 16 April 2019}}
Don Lessem – Dump Trump (statue)
James Little - "Cubist Rendezvous'"{{cite web|url=https://www.culturetype.com/2020/10/22/james-littles-black-paintings-are-a-volley-of-minimalist-ideals-exposing-the-drama-richness-and-contrasting-values-of-black/|title = James Little's Black Paintings are a 'Volley of Minimalist Ideals' Exposing the Drama, Richness, and Contrasting Values of Black|date = 22 October 2020}}
Mark Manders – Tilted Head{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/artist-mark-manders-talks-about-his-monumental-tilted-head-at-central-park-031419|title = Artist Mark Manders talks about his monumental Tilted Head at Central Park| date=14 March 2019 }}
Kent Monkman – "Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)", two large paintings "Resurgence of the People" and "Welcoming the Newcomers" commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the building's Great Hall.{{cite news| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kent-monkman-met-new-paintings-1.5395216| title = 'Big, bold, audacious' Kent Monkman artworks 'at home' at the Met, says curator|work=CBC News}}
Wangechi Mutu – Seated I, II, III and IV installed for the exhibition "The New Ones Will Free Us" (September 9 - January 12, 2020) on the front facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as the inaugural edition of a new yearly commission wherein are being and will continue to be employed four niches created for the display of free standing sculptures{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/facade-commission-wangechi-mutu |title=The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us |work=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
Felipe Pantone - optichromie – BUF (mural) in Buffalo, New York.{{cite web |url=https://www.albrightknox.org/blog/ak-public-art-spotlight-felipe-pantones-optichromie%E2%80%94buf |title=AK Public Art Spotlight: Felipe Pantone's Optichromie—BUF |publisher=Albright-Knox |date=2019-10-01 |access-date=2022-07-15 }}
Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter – Reich Richter Pärt: two immersive live performances (April 6 – June 2), at The Shed at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/new-steve-reich-piece-paired-gerhard-richter-work-premieres-shed-nyc-2019-04-04|title=New Steve Reich Piece Paired with Gerhard Richter Work Premieres at the Shed in NYC|website=Nonesuch Records|date=4 April 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://theshed.org/program/2-reich-richter-part |title=Reich Richter Pärt |website=The Shed}}
Jennifer Rubell – Ivanka Vacuuming (performance piece){{cite web|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/02/ivanka-vacuuming-museum-performance-draws-ire-of-trump-family-supporters.html|title='Ivanka Vacuuming' museum performance draws ire of Trump family, supporters|first=Ray|last=Kelly|date=7 February 2019|website=masslive.com}}
Sean Scully – Oppulent Ascension{{Cite web |url=http://seanscullystudio.com/new-arts-holder/sculptures/opulent-ascension/ |title=Opulent Ascension » Sean Scully |access-date=2019-07-03 |archive-date=2019-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703222723/http://seanscullystudio.com/new-arts-holder/sculptures/opulent-ascension/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/sean-scully-san-giorgio-maggiore-church-venice-biennale|title = Sean Scully delivers sermon of stripes at Venetian church|date = 29 April 2019}}
Sorawit Songsataya – "The Interior" at the Auckland Art Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/event/sorawit-songsataya-the-interior?q=%2Fwhats-on%2Fevent%2Fsorawit-songsataya-the-interior|title = Sorawit Songsataya: The Interior| date=22 November 2019 }}
Hank Willis Thomas - Society of the Spectacle (Spectrum IV{{Cite web|url=https://www.phillips.com/detail/hank-willis-thomas/NY010123/21|title=Hank Willis Thomas - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023|website=Phillips}}
Ronnie van Hout – "Boy Walking" installed in Potters Park in Auckland, New Zealand{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12240493|title = Boy Walking sculpture now installed in Potters Park| date=25 June 2023 }}
Leo Villareal – Illuminated River, illumination of London Thames bridges
Kehinde Wiley – Rumors of War (equestrian sculpture){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/learning/lesson-of-the-day-kehinde-wileys-times-square-monument-thats-no-robert-e-lee.amp.html|title=Lesson of the Day: 'Kehinde Wiley's Times Square Monument: That's No Robert E. Lee'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 September 2019|last1=Doyne|first1=Shannon}}
Domingo Zapata – Retrospective vinyl mural installed on the side of One Times Square in Times Square in New York City{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-domingo-zapata-15-story-mural-times-square-20190827-aycwso5cbfdvdmkxuup4zjyoxe-story.html%3foutputType=amp |title=New York's largest vinyl mural, a 15-story piece by artist Domingo Zapata, was unveiled in Times Square Monday |website=New York Daily News |access-date=2019-08-28 |archive-date=2019-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827020703/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-domingo-zapata-15-story-mural-times-square-20190827-aycwso5cbfdvdmkxuup4zjyoxe-story.html?outputType=amp |url-status=dead }}

Awards

The Artes Mundi prize – Apichatpong Weerasethakul{{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/24/apichatpong-weerasethakul-wins-2019-artes-mundi-prize/|title=Apichatpong Weerasethakul Wins 2019 Artes Mundi Prize|author=Alex Greenberger|date=24 January 2019|website=ArtNews}}
Venice Biennale (May 11 – November 24)
Leone d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement: Jimmie Durham (United States){{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/04/04/jimmie-durham-will-receive-venice-biennales-2019-golden-lion-for-lifetime-achievement/|title=Jimmie Durham Will Receive Venice Biennale's 2019 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement|date=4 April 2019}}
Leone d'Oro for Best National Participation – Lina Lapelyte, Vaiva Grainyte, and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (Lithuania) for "Sun & Sea (Marina)" Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti with honorable mention to Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys (Belgium) for "Mondo Cane"
Leone d'Oro for Best Participant in the International Exhibition – Arthur Jafa (United States) with special mentions to Teresa Margolles (Mexico) and Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria)
Silver Lion for a Promising Artist in the International Exhibition – Haris Epaminonda (Cyprus){{cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/lithuania-gets-the-coveted-golden-lion-for-best-national-pavilion-in-venice|title = Lithuania gets the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion in Venice|date = 11 May 2019}}

Films

The Goldfinch{{cite news|url=https://time.com/5677134/the-goldfinch-movie-review/|title = The Goldfinch is a Handsome Movie, but It Lies Flat as a Painting}}
Redoubt{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/matthew-barney-nra-film-redoubt-1468936|title=Matthew Barney's New Film Stars an NRA Rifle Champ as a Mythological Huntress in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains|date=19 February 2019}}

Deaths

January 10 – Gerd Jaeger, 91, German sculptor
January 13 – Francine du Plessix Gray, 88, American writer, widow of Cleve Gray
January 22 – Jonas Mekas, 96, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, film archivist (Anthology Film Archives), poet and artist (Fluxus){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/24/jonas-mekas-obituary|title=Jonas Mekas obituary|date=24 January 2019|author=Ronald Bergan|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 February 2019}}
January 28 – Susan Hiller, 78, American-born multimedia artist{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/01/susan-hiller-obituary|title=Susan Hiller obituary|date=1 February 2019|author=Oliver Basciano|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 February 2019}}
January 30 – Bernard Nevill, 88, English textile designer and art collector{{cite web|title=Prof Bernard Nevill|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/n/7200/Bernard+Richard.aspx|work=Debrett's|publisher=Debrett's Ltd|accessdate=2013-12-04}}
February 3 – Irving Lavin, 91, American art historian (Gianlorenzo Bernini){{cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2019/irving-lavin-obit|title=Irving Lavin (1927–2019), Iconic Art Historian, Dies at 91|date=6 February 2019|website=IAS|access-date=24 February 2019}}
February 5 – Fumiko Hori, 100, Japanese Nihonga painter{{cite web|url=https://this.kiji.is/466164438749922401?c=39546741839462401|title=日本画家の堀文子さんが死去絵本でも人気、100歳 |date=2019-02-07|website=Kyodo News|language=ja|url-status=live|access-date=2019-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209123931/https://this.kiji.is/466164438749922401?c=39546741839462401 |archive-date=2019-02-09 }}
February 8 – Robert Ryman, 88, American painter{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/11/robert-ryman-obituary|title=Robert Ryman obituary|date=11 February 2019|author=Oliver Basciano|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 February 2019}}
February 12 – Bisi Silva, 56–57, Nigerian art curator{{cite web|url=https://guardian.ng/art/for-bisi-silva-its-rain-of-tributes-from-curators-others/|title=For Bisi Silva, it's rain of tributes from curators, others|date=17 February 2019|author=Tajudeen Sowole|website=Guardian.ng|access-date=24 February 2019}}
February 18 – Alessandro Mendini, 88, Italian architect and designer (Groninger Museum)
February 23 – Marella Angelli, 91, Italian art collector (Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli)
March 1 – Kevin Roche, 96, Irish-born American architect (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
March 3 – Lee Wen, 61, Singaporean performance artist
March 6 – Carolee Schneemann, 79, American visual and performance artist
March 11 – Martín Chirino, 94, Spanish sculptor
March 12 – Sir John Richardson, 95, British art historian and Picasso biographer
March 15
Luca Alinari, 75, Italian painter{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/morto-pittore-alinari-1.4493354|title=Cultura in lutto, è morto il pittore Luca Alinari - Cronaca - lanazione.it|first=La|last=Nazione|website=La Nazione|date=15 March 2019 |accessdate=26 March 2023}}
Okwui Enwezor, 55, Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator
March 16 – Barbara Hammer, 79, American filmmaker and visual artist
March 19 – Rose Hilton, 87, British painter{{cite web |last1=Guilding |first1=Ruth |title=Rose Hilton obituary {{!}} Ruth Guilding |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/28/rose-hilton-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 April 2019 |date=28 March 2019}}
March 21 – Haku Shah, 84, Indian artist
March 31 – Hedi Turki, 96, Tunisian painter
April 2 – Herman Braun-Vega, 85, Peruvian painter
April 3 – Jacqueline Lichtenstein, 72, French art historian and philosopher
April 10 – {{ill|Claude Lalanne|fr}}, 93, French sculptor (Les Lalanne)
April 20
Mavis Pusey, 90, Jamaican-born American painter
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, 96, Iranian artist
Jayne Wrightsman, 99, American philanthropist and fine arts collector
April 24 – Michael Wolf, German photographer, 64
April 26 – Zé do Carmo, 95, Brazilian ceramist
May 9 - Thomas Nozkowski, 75, American painter
May 14
Lutz Bacher, American conceptual artist
Nobuo Sekine, 76, Japanese sculptor
May 16
Jamil Naqsh, 79, Pakistani painter
I.M. Pei, 102, Chinese born American architect (East Building of The National Gallery of Art, Louvre Pyramid, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha)
May 21 – Lawrence Carroll, 64, Australian-born American painter
May 26 – Everett Kinstler, 93, American painter
May 29 – Tony DeLap, 91, American sculptor
June 1 – Leah Chase, 96, American Creole chef and art collector
June 4 – Joe Overstreet, 85, American painter
June 9
Maryon Kantaroff, 85, Canadian sculptor
Adela Neffa, 96, Argentine-born Uruguayan sculptor
June 13 – Joyce Pensato, 77, American painter
June 14 – Martin Roth, 41, Austrian artist
June 16
Charles Ginnever, 87, American Sculptor
Suzan Pitt, 75, American animator and painter
June 17
Robert Therrien, 71, American sculptor
Gloria Vanderbilt, 95, American artist, fashion designer, socialite, and heiress
June 21 – Peter Selz, 100, German born American art historian
June 25 – Sascha Pohflepp, 41, German artist (death announced on this date)
July 4 – Leon Kossoff, 92, British painter
July 5 – Douglas Crimp, 74, American art historian, writer, and curator
July 7 – Steve Cannon, 84, American novelist, playwright, and arts impresario (A Gathering of the Tribes)
July 15 – Frieder Burda, 83, German art collector
July 20 – Marisa Merz, 93, Italian artist (Arte Povera)
July 27 – Carlos Cruz-Diez, 95, Venezuelan artist
August 7 – Nancy Reddin Kienholz, 75, American artist widow of Edward Kienholz
August 23 – Wang Guodong, 88, Chinese painter (portraits of Mao Zedong)
September 3 – Peter Lindbergh, 74, German photographer and filmmaker
September 5 - Francisco Toledo, 79, Mexican artist
September 9 – Robert Frank, 94, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans) and documentary filmmaker (Cocksucker Blues)
September 10 – Daniel Johnston, 58, American singer-songwriter and visual artist.
September 23 – Huguette Caland, 88, Lebanese painter
October 2 - Matthew Wong, 35, Canadian painter
October 11
John Giorno, 82, American poet and performance artist
Ettore Spalletti, 79, Italian artist
October 12 - E. A. Carmean, 74, American art curator (National Gallery of Art) and art historian
October 13
Charles Jencks, 80, American architect, cultural theorist (Post-modernism)
Adolfo Mexiac, 92, Mexican graphic artist
October 14 - Gunnar Torvund, 71, Norwegian sculptor
October 15 - Stefan Edlis, 94, Austrian born American art collector and philanthropist
October 18 - Edward Clark, 93, American painter
October 20 - Huang Yong Ping, 65, Chinese-French artist
October 21 - Gilberto Aceves Navarro, 88, Mexican artist
November 1 - Rina Lazo, 96, Guatemalan-Mexican painter
November 9 - Džemma Skulme, 94, Latvian artist and painter
November 17 - Gustav Peichl, 91, Austrian architect (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
November 19 - Manoucher Yektai, 97, Iranian-American artist (New York School)
December 3 - Johann Eyfells, 96, Icelandic artist
December 9 - May Stevens, 95, American painter
December 10
Ken Heyman, 89, American photographer
Emily Mason, 87, American painter
December 13 - PHASE 2, 64, American graffiti artist
December 14 - Panamarenko, 79, Belgian sculptor
December 19 - Francisco Brennand, 92, Brazilian sculptor
December 29 - Alasdair Gray, 85, Scottish artist and novelist
December 30 - Syd Mead, 86, American concept artist (Blade Runner, Aliens, Tron)

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