2007 in art

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The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• 10 June – 21 November – 52nd Venice Biennale.
• 18 October – In New York City, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits.
• 22 October – In Amersfoort (Netherlands) a fire at the Armando museum destroys 63 paintings from the permanent and loan collections.^[1]
• 2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".^[2]
• 14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.^[3]
• 20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

• 14 June-16 September - National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007"^[4]
• September-December - Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007

Awards

• Archibald Prize – John Beard, Portrait of Janet Laurence
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
• Caldecott Medal – David Wiesner, Flotsam
• Turner Prize – Mark Wallinger, State Britain
• Venice Biennale – (June 10 - November 21)
  • Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement:Malick Sidibé (Mali)
  • Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Andreas Fogarasi (Hungary)
• Wynne prize – Philip Wolfhagen, Winter Nocturne IV

Works

• David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter
• Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates bronzes at Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England
• Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London)
• Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)^[5][6][7]

Deaths

January to March

• 8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (b.1925).
• 20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942).
• 4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922).
• 14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925).
• 22 February
  • Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918).
  • Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (b.1965; ovarian cancer).^[8]
• 2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955).
• 6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929).
• 16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921).

April to June

• 7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931).
• 8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928).
• 10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919).
• 15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920).
• 17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910).
• 3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913).
• 26 May – James Beck, American art historian (b.1930).
• 28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945; ALS).^[9]
• 2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943).
• 17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944).
• 22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931).
• 26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929).

July to September

• 7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (b.1925).
• 17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971).
• 22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (b.1950).
• 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922).
• 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919).
• 12 August
  • Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker and draughtsman (b.1940).
  • Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963).
• 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936).
• 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907).
• 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist.

October to December

• 5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962).
• 8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917).
• 21 October
  • R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932).
  • Ileana Sonnabend, art dealer and gallerist.
• 30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927).
• 16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924).
• 4 December
  • Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932).
  • Herman Rose 98, painter (b.1909).
• 14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926).
• 31 December – Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b.1924).

References

1. "Armando Museum in Ruins After Fire". Blouin Artinfo. 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
2. Morgan, Nesta. "Nightwatching". film&festivals (United Kingdom: Wallflower Press, Film Culture Ltd.) 2 (2): 5. ISSN 1755-5485.
3. "Julio Romero de Torres". Sotheby's. Retrieved 16 Aug 2015.
4. National Portrait Gallery website. Accessed 26 February 2014
5. McIntyre, Stefanie (August 2007). "Bin Laden & Virgin Mary in Art Row". Reuters.
6. "Furor over Burqa-clad Virgin Mary, Jesus morphing into Osama bin Laden". USA Today. September 2007.
7. Fortescue, Elizabeth; Aston, Heath (August 2007). "Fury on Virgin Mary's Burqa". Herald Sun.
8. Miriam Mone obituary in The Irish Times
9. Obituary, The Guardian, 13 June 2007