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2023 in art

{{Short description|Overview of the events of 2023 in art}}

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{{Year nav topic5|2023|art}}The year 2023 in art involved various significant events.

Events

  • February - The Joan Mitchell foundation issues a cease and desist letter to Louis Vuitton to stop using Joan Mitchell's paintings as the backdrop in one of the advertising campaigns for their signature handbags, saying that it is unauthorized and improper usage.{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/joan-mitchell-foundation-copyright-claims-louis-vuitton-handbag-ads-1234658446/ | title=Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease and Desist to Louis Vuitton over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads | date=21 February 2023 }}
  • February 16 - A woman attending the Art Wynwood art fair in the Wynwood section of Miami, Florida taps a limited edition porcelain Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture displayed at the Bel-Air Fine Art booth, knocking it to the floor and shattering it into many many pieces and shards. There was no "Break it You Buy It" policy at the temporary gallery outpost and it was covered by insurance.{{Cite news |last=Rosa |first=Amanda |date=2023-02-21 |title=Woman accidentally breaks $42,000 Jeff Koons sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami |work=Miami Herald |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article272539097.html |access-date=2023-04-15}}
  • March - The Vatican Museums returns three historic 2,500 year old sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens to Greece.{{cite web | url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vatican-parthenon-greece-tan/?dicbo=v2-vrargrl&iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion | title='A historic event': Vatican returns 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures to Greece | website=CNN | date=9 March 2023 }}
  • March 29 - The German born Belgian art collector and patron Myriam Ullens is shot dead allegedly by her stepson, Nicolas Ullens de Schooten Whettnall.{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/myriam-ullens-belgium-2277784 | title=Pioneering Collector and Chinese Art Patron Myriam Ullens Has Been Shot Dead Outside Her Home in Belgium | date=30 March 2023 }}
  • May - American visual artist and academic Shellyne Rodriguez has online and in-person confrontations in New York City with anti-abortion activists and when a New York Post reporter tries to interview her at her home she threatens him with a machete. She is then dismissed from her position as a professor at Hunter College, arrested and charged with menacing and harassment.{{cite web | url=https://abc7ny.com/hunter-college-shellyne-rodriguez-new-york-post-assault/13299690/ | title=Hunter College professor arrested after threatening NY Post reporter with machete | date=25 May 2023 }}
  • June 27 - Gustav Klimt's last painting, Lady with a Fan (Dame mit Fächer, 1918), is sold by Sotheby's in London for UK£85.3M (US$108.4) to a Hong Kong collector, the highest-priced artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.{{cite news|first=Jasmine|last=Andersson|title=Klimt's final portrait sells for record £85.3m|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66036688|work=BBC News|date=2023-06-28|accessdate=2023-06-29}}
  • September - Edouard Manet's Olympia comes to the U.S. for the very first time as part of the exhibition Manet/Degas, a show which originated at the famed work's home, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.{{Cite web |last=Solomon |first=Tessa |date=2023-05-11 |title=Manet's 'Olympia' Will Travel to the United States for the First Time This Fall |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manet-olympia-travels-us-first-time-met-1234667493/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}
  • October 6 - An American tourist visiting Israel throws two second century Roman statues to the floor in the Israel Museum damaging them and is subsequently arrested. Upon questioning by Israeli police the vandal said that he considered them “to be idolatrous and contrary to the Torah.”{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-museum-roman-statues-damaged-tourist-arrested-c1f793f1df00d477adac3e651e5751a7 | title=An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel | website=Associated Press News | date=6 October 2023 }}
  • November 8 - The collection of Emily Fisher Landau (1920-2023) sets a record for the highest total proceeds ever obtained at auction from the sale of a collection of a female collector, 406 million $US at Sotheby's in New York City. The sale includes Pablo Picasso's Femme à la montre (1932), which changed hands for 121 million $US, the second highest price ever achieved at auction for a work by Picasso after Les Femmes d'Alger (1955), which sold for 179.4 million $US in 2015, then a record for a painting sold at auction.{{Cite web |last=Armstrong |first=Annie |date=2023-11-09 |title=Sotheby's Emily Fisher Landau Sale Is Most Valuable Ever for a Female Collector, Nets $406 Million |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/emily-fisher-landau-sothebys-results-2391881 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Schrader |first=Adam |date=2023-11-09 |title=Emily Fisher Landau's Prized Picasso Nets $139.4 Million at Sotheby's, Achieving the Second-Highest Price at Auction for the Spanish Artist |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/emily-fisher-landau-picasso-sothebys-2384885 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Artnet News}}
  • November - The missing painting by Sandro Botticelli, Madonna delle Grazie, is recovered in the Italian town of Gragnano.{{cite web | url =https://edition.cnn.com/style/lost-botticelli-masterpiece-found-italy-intl-scli/index.html|title='Lost' Botticelli masterpiece worth $109 million found in home in southern Italy|publisher=CNN| date=1 December 2023 | accessdate =1 December 2023}}
  • December
  • Australian artist Mike Parr is dropped by his longtime representative the Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne after staging a performance and instillation where he placed the words Israel and Nazis side by side.{{Cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=2023-12-08 |title=Artist Mike Parr Dropped by Australian Gallery After Staging Piece Referencing Israel and Palestine |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mike-parr-dropped-anna-schwartz-gallery-israel-gaza-performance-1234688970/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}
  • Departing the booth he curated at Art Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week art dealer Rodrigo Salomon leaves a small painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682), "Madonna and Child" valued at between 500,000 and 1 million $US in a Lyft vehicle before it can be retrieved from the trunk and the driver speeds away with the painting in the hold. The painting is subsequently returned.{{Cite web |last=Schrader |first=Adam |date=2023-12-08 |title=A Lyft Driver Took Off With a 17th-Century Murillo Painting at Art Miami |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lyft-driver-took-off-with-bartolome-esteban-murillo-painting-at-art-miami-2406054 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Schrader |first=Adam |date=2023-12-11 |title=A Murillo Painting That Went Missing at Art Miami Has Been Recovered |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/murillo-painting-that-went-missing-at-art-miami-recovered-2406528 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}

Exhibitions

  • January 26 until April 16 - Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2023/beyond-the-light | title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art }}
  • February 1 until April 30 - The Art of Banksy Without Limits in São Paulo, Brazil then travels to Queens Plaza in Brisbane, Australia from May 3 until July 9{{Cite web|url=https://www.artofbanksy.com/|title=Art of Banksy | Exhibition|website=Art of Banksy}}
  • February 18 until June 4 - Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York at the Home of the Arts at the Gold Coast, Queensland{{cite web | url=https://www.mygc.com.au/gold-coast-events/pop-masters-art-from-the-mugrabi-collection-new-york-at-hota/ | title=Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York at HOTA | date=20 February 2023 }}
  • March 2 until June 4 - Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wangechi-mutu-intertwined-1 | title=Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined }}
  • March 3 until August 15 - The Sassoons at the Jewish Museum in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Through The Saga of the Sassoon Family, Exhibition Presents a Sweeping Global Narrative Over 100 Years of Art Collecting, Trade, Architectural Patronage, Philanthropy, and Civic Engagement |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/press/press-release/the-sassoons-opens-march-3 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=The Jewish Museum}}
  • March 7 until August 27 - Picasso Celebration: The Collection in a New Light at the Musée Picasso in Paris, France.{{cite web | url=https://www.visitparisregion.com/en/picasso-celebration-the-collection-in-a-new-light | title=Picasso celebration: The collection in a new light! | VisitParisRegion }}
  • March 8 until March 23 - Never Above 14th Street (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Wong, Keith Haring, Futura, Crash, Lady Pink, Linus Corragio, David Wojnarowicz, Dondi White, and Mike Bidlo: curated by Scott Nussbaum) at Phillips in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.phillips.com/article/116467258/never-above-14th-street-contemporary-art-exhibition-new-york-basquiat-haring-wojnarowicz | title=Never Above 14th Street | A Photo Journal }}{{cite web | url=https://phillips.com/auctions/auction/EX010323 | title=Never Above 14th St. A Downtown NYC Art Show: New York Auction Wednesday, March 8, 2023 }}
  • March 18 until October 15 - Kehinde Wiley: An Archeology of Silence at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California.{{Cite web |title=Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence |url=https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-an-archaeology-of-silence |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=FAMSF |language=en}}
  • March 28 until July 23 - Manet / Degas at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.{{cite web | url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/manet-degas | title=Exhibition Manet / Degas | Musée d'Orsay }} then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from September 26 until January 7, 2024.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/manet-degas | title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art }}
  • March 31 until September 10 - Gego: Measuring Infinity at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/press-release/the-guggenheim-museum-presents-gego-measuring-infinity|title=The Guggenheim Museum Presents|website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}
  • March 31 until September 10 - Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/sarah-sze-timelapse|title=Sarah Sze: Timelapse|website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}
  • April 3 until July 16 - Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/juan-de-pareja|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
  • April 4 until December 3 - Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
  • April 12 until May 26 - Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing at Acquavella Galleries in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.acquavellagalleries.com/exhibitions/bonnard-the-experience-of-seeing | title=Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing - New York - Exhibitions - Acquavella Galleries }}
  • April 13 until July 28 - Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://vip-hauserwirth.com/mark-bradford-you-dont-have-to-tell-me-twice/ | title=Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice - Hauser & Wirth | Hauser & Wirth | date=11 April 2023 }}
  • April 18 until June 1 - Rear View at LGDR in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Rear-View |url=https://www.lgdr.com/rear-view |website=www.lgdr.com}}
  • May 5 until October 8 - The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti at MoMA in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/the-encounter-barbara-chase-riboud-alberto-giacometti/|title=The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti|website=Contemporary And}}
  • May 12 until August 6 - Young Picasso in Paris at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/young-picasso-in-paris|title=Young Picasso in Paris|website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}
  • May 22 until August 27 - Van Gogh's Cypresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/van-gogh-cypresses|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
  • May 31 until September 3 - Moki Cherry: Here and Now at ICA in London, United Kingdom.https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/moki-cherry-here-and-now
  • June 1 until March 3, 2024 - Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera at the Frick Madison in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/party_carriera | title=Past | the Frick Collection }}
  • June 9 until October 8 - Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.{{cite web | url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/learn/pierre-bonnard-designed-by-india-mahdavi/ | title=Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | NGV }}
  • June 11 until October 9 - Canova: Sketching in Clay at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2023/canova-sketching-in-clay.html|title=Canova: Sketching in Clay|website=www.nga.gov}}
  • July 15 until January 14 2024 - Gladiators: A Day At The Roman Games at Colchester Castle.{{cite web | url=https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/gladiators/ | title=Gladiators: A Day at the Roman Games | date=4 January 2023 }}
  • September 10 until January 13, 2024 - Ed Ruscha / Now Then at MoMA in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://press.moma.org/exhibition/ed-ruscha-now-then/ | title=Ed Ruscha / Now then }}
  • September 12 until October 21 - Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self (curated by Cecilia Alemani) at Gagosian Gallery in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2023/tetsuya-ishida-my-anxious-self-curated-by-cecilia-alemani/ | title=Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self | Curated by Cecilia Alemani, 555 West 24th Street, New York, September 12–October 21, 2023 | date=18 July 2023 }}
  • September 23 Until February 3, 2024 - Moki Cherry: Journey Eternal at the Moderna Museet in Malmö, Sweden.{{cite web | url=https://www.modernamuseet.se/malmo/en/exhibitions/moki-cherry/ | title=Moki Cherry }}
  • October 8 until February 17, 2024 - Picasso in Fontainbleu at MoMA in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Picasso in Fontainebleau |url=https://press.moma.org/exhibition/picasso-in-fontainebleau/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=press.moma.org}}
  • October 12 until March 3, 2024 - Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory | title=Judy Chicago: Herstory }}
  • October 13 until January 21, 2024 - Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{Cite web |title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/vertigo-of-color?fbclid=IwAR2p5wSw9tYY-hu7q51BvUdV2Vo5YE-68FIukYmlFadSJ-hgBNA9MgH0pek |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en}}
  • October 18 until February 4, 2024 - Mark Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.{{Cite web |title=Mark Rothko |url=https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/mark-rothko |website=www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr}}
  • October 20 until March 3 2024 - Mattia Preti. Discovering the baroque secrets of Malta at Podchorążówka Museum, Łazienki Park in Warsaw.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-20 |title=Wystawa: Mattia Preti. Odkrywając barokowe tajemnice Malty {{!}} Łazienki Królewskie |url=https://www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl/pl/wydarzenia/mattia-preti-odkrywajac-barokowe-tajemnice-malty |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl |language=pl}}
  • October 22 until January 21, 2024 - Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Parts at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{cite web | url=https://www.barnesfoundation.org/press/press-releases/the-barnes-foundation-presents-marie-laurencin-sapphic-paris | title=The Barnes Foundation }}
  • November 4 until January 13, 2024 - Tracy Emin: Lover's Grave at White Cube in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Tracey Emin Opens White Cube New York |url=https://ocula.com/advisory/picks/tracey-emin-opens-white-cube-new-york/ |website=ocula.com}}
  • November 5 until March 31 2024 - Bonnard’s Worlds at Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-art-museum-shows-fall-2023-2353149 | title=12 Must-See Museum Shows in the U.S. This Fall, from a Retrospective of ed Ruscha to Breathtaking Botticellis | date=6 September 2023 }}
  • November 18 until February 11 2024 - Botticelli Drawings (curated by Furio Rinaldi) at De Young Museum/Legion of Honor in San Francisco.{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-art-museum-shows-fall-2023-2353149 | title=12 Must-See Museum Shows in the U.S. This Fall, from a Retrospective of ed Ruscha to Breathtaking Botticellis | date=6 September 2023 }}
  • November 17 until January 31, 2024 - Marta Minujin: Ariel! Ariel! Ariel! at the Jewish Museum in New York City.{{Cite web |title=The Jewish Museum |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/press/press-release/marta-minujin-press-announcement |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=The Jewish Museum}}
  • November 18 until May 19 2024 - Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs at the Australian Museum in Sydney.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs |url=https://australian.museum/exhibition/ramses/australian.museum/exhibition/ramses/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=The Australian Museum |language=en}}

Works

  • Refik Anadol - Unsupervised created for and installed at MoMA in New York City{{cite web | url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5535 | title=Refik Anadol: Unsupervised | MoMA }}
  • Banksy - Valentine's day mascara in Margate, Kent, England
  • Janet Echelman - Current in Columbus, Ohio
  • Urs Fischer - Divine Interventions{{cite web | url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/transhistorical-selection-over-sixty-paintings/5768 | title=Rear View at LGDR: A Transhistorical Selection of over Sixty Paintings }}
  • Lucinda "La Morena" Hinojos - Super Bowl LVII Mural in Phoenix, Arizona{{cite web | url=https://www.azcentral.com/mosaic-story/news/local/arizona-people/2023/02/05/la-morena-inspired-by-chicana-indigenous-roots-for-super-bowl-2023-art/69844260007/ | title=Arizona artist Lucinda Hinojos, 'La Morena,' inspired by community | date=7 February 2023 }}
  • Alexander Klingspor - N.Y.C. Legend{{Cite web |last=Sottile |first=Zoe |date=2023-10-22 |title=New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nyc-alligator-sewer-statue-trnd/index.html |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=CNN |language=en}}
  • Marta Minujin - Sculpture of Dreams commissioned for and installed in Times Square in Manhattan, New York City{{Cite web |date=2023-10-10 |title=Marta Minujín bringing towering, psychedelic inflatable sculpture to Times Square |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/10/10/marta-minujin-inflatable-sculpture-times-square |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}
  • Shazia Sikander
  • Now
  • Witness{{cite web | url=https://brooklynrail.org/2023/02/artseen/Shahzia-Sikander-Havahto-breathe-air-life | title=Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life | date=February 2023 }}
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto - Point of Infinity, San Francisco
  • Hank Willis Thomas - The Embrace installed on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts{{cite web | url=https://hyperallergic.com/792677/hank-willis-thomas-memorializes-mlk-and-coretta-scott-kings-love/ | title=Hank Willis Thomas Memorializes MLK and Coretta Scott King's Love | date=15 January 2023 }}
  • Jordan Wolfson - Body Sculpture (completed){{Cite web|url=https://gagosian.com/news/museum-exhibitions/jordan-wolfson-body-sculpture-national-gallery-of-australia-canberra/|title=Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture|date=26 January 2023|website=Gagosian}}
  • Jonathan Yeo - His Majesty King Charles III (completed)

Awards

  • Turner Prize: Jesse Darling.{{Cite news|last=Bakare|first=Lanre|date=2023-12-05|title=Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/05/jesse-darling-wins-2023-turner-prize|access-date=2024-12-07}}

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