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The year 2014 in art involves various significant events.

Events

• January 22 – The value of Canada's leading contemporary art award, the Sobey Art Award, is increased to a total of $100,000.^[1]
• February 7 – The British National Gallery in London announces its first ever purchase of a major American painting, George Bellows' Men of the Docks (1912).^[2]
• February 12 – The discovery of two new portraits, presumed to depict William Shakespeare, the Wörlitz portrait and the Boaden portrait, is announced by German scholar Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel.^[3]
• February 16 – Dominican-born Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero walks into the recently opened Pérez Art Museum Miami, in Miami, Florida and smashes one of twelve vases employed in an instillation by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei. Caminero later tells the Miami New Times that he destroyed the vase "for all the local artists in Miami that have never been shown in museums here." Miami's museums and galleries, he says (they), "have spent so many millions now on international artists," without, in his view, giving any attention to local talent. Later Wei Wei told the New York Times "The argument does not support the act"... "It doesn't sound right. his argument doesn’t make much sense. If he really had a point, he should choose another way, because this will bring him trouble to destroy property that does not belong to him."^[4]
• April – The organization A Gathering of the Tribes and its founder and longtime executive director Steve Cannon are forced to relocate and its art gallery permanently shut when the occupancy agreement they had with the woman to whom the building had earlier been sold, Lorraine Zhang, ends. Simultaneously, a wall which retained some of an art-piece by David Hammons (which in a prior transaction had been sold to an the art collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos after having been reproduced and the originality of the object transferred) is removed and relocated by the organization and replaced by another minus the previously pedigreed adornment.^[5]
• April 26 – The artist Judy Chicago, as part of her retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and in celebration of her 75th birthday, presents a fireworks display in the New York City borough of Brooklyn's Prospect Park.^[6]
• May - A section of "We the People" by the Vietnamese born Danish artist Danh Vo consisting of pieces of a disassembled replica scale model of the Statue of Liberty in the original sculpture's initial copper sheen is swiped by a thief as the work is laid out in City Hall Park in New York City for instillation and then public exhibition.^[7]
• May 13 – A painting by Joan Mitchell of a bouquet entitled "Untitled (1960)" sells at auction during the post-war and contemporary art auction at Christie's in New York City sells for $11.9 millon U.S, rendering it the most highest price ever paid for a work of art by a woman at an auction, surpassing the $10.9 million paid for Berthe Morisot's "After Lunch" (1881) the previous year.^[8][9]
• May 18 - The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York reopens in its new building, a 187 meter long facility designed by the Swiss architecture firm of Herzog and de Meuron.^[10]
• June 17 - Infrared imagery of Pablo Picasso's 1901 painting The Blue Room reveals another painting beneath the surface.^[11]
• June 27 – The Mauritshuis art museum is set to reopen in The Hague, Netherlands following a major renovation.
• July 4 - After having been closed in 2011 for expansion and renovation, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts reopens with the estimated $145 million additions of an exhibition and conference center designed by Tadao Ando and a reshaping of its existing galleries by Annabelle Selldorf.^[12][13]
• August 5 - Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, an installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies in the moat of the Tower of London (England) by Paul Cummins with Tom Piper, is unveiled to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, being dismantled after November 11 after around 4 million people have visited.^[14]
  

  A view of the installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red in late October, as it neared completion
• August 9 - The Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado officially reopens to the public in a new structure designed by architect Shigeru Ban.^[15]
• September 14 - A Statue of Amy Winehouse, created by Scott Eaton was unveiled at Stables Market, Camden Town in London to mark the 31st birthday of the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, boosted by the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Winehouse was heavily associated with Camden Town and the bronze sculpture will remain in this location as an armorial to the star.^[16]
  

  Bronze statue of Winehouse in Camden Town, London unveiled in September 2014
• November 16 - The Harvard Art Museums redesigned by Renzo Piano reopen after a six-year hiatus.^[17]
• November 19 - The Whitney Museum of American Art says goodbye to their Marcel Breuer Madison Avenue home with a final commissioned work in the form of a Will Pappenheimer Whitney themed digital drug trip piece entitled "Proxy, 5-WM2A" and the institution's director Adam D. Weinberg announces the opening of their new space by Renzo Piano in Manhattan's meatpacking District adjoining the High Line on May 1, 2015.^[18][19]
• November 20 - A canvas by the American painter Georgia O'Keefe entitled "Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932)" sells for $44.1 million at Sotheby's in New York City, rendering it the highest known price ever paid for a work of art by a female artist and doubling and nearly tripling the $11.9 record previously paid only six months earlier for the Joan Mitchell work "Untiled (1960).^[20]

Exhibitions

• February 1 – April 28 – "Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution" at the Louvre in Paris, France.^[21]
• February 21 – September 1 – "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[22]
• March 7 – May 25 – The Whitney Biennial 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.^[23]
• March 10 -May 26 – "The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[24]
• March 19 – June 15 – "Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice" at the National Gallery in London.^[25]
• June 7 - January 25, 2015 - Franz West at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts^[26]
• June 27 - October 14 - "Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.^[27]
• October 4 - January 18, 2015 - "Robert Gober: The Heart is not a Metaphor" at MOMA in New York City.^[28]
• October 10 - January 7, 2015 - "Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City
• October 12 - February 1, 2015 - "Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale.^[29]
• October 20 - February 16, 2015 - "Cubism: The Leonard A.Lauder Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[30]
• October 29 - February 1, 2015 (extended until February 11, 2015) - "Chris Ofili: Night and Day " at the New Museum in New York City.^[31]
• December 3 - May 3, 2015 - "One Way: Peter Marino" at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.^[32]

Works

• Emma Sulkowicz – Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) begins in September at Columbia University in New York City.
• Kara Walker – "A Subtlety" or "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York, USA.^[33]
• Ken Washington – Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., in MacGregor Park, Houston, Texas, USA.^[34]

Deaths

• January 2 – R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., 86, American banker, art collector and founder of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• January 8 – Madeline Gins, 72, American artist, architect and poet.
• January 13 – Gary Grimshaw, 67, American graphic rock concert poster artist.
• January 16 – Douglas Davis, 80, American art critic and artist
• January 25 – Morrie Turner, 90, American cartoonist (Wee Pals)
• January 28
  • Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, 91, Ivorian artist
  • Fernand Leduc, 97, Canadian abstract painter
• February 1 – René Ricard, 67, American poet, artist and art critic
• February 2 – J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, 83, Nigerian photographer
• February 3 – Joan Mondale, 83, American visual arts advocate and Second Lady of the United States (1977–1981)
• February 8
  • Terry Adkins, 60, American conceptual artist
  • Nancy Holt, 75, American land artist
• February 10 – Olga Jevrić, 91, Serbian sculptor
• February 14 – Patrick Scott, 93, Irish artist
• February 23 – Carla Accardi, 89, Italian painter
• February 24 – Carlos Páez Vilaró, 90, Uruguayan artist
• February 25 – Martin E. Sullivan, 70, American museum director (the United States National Portrait Gallery and the Heard Museum)
• February 26 – Sorel Etrog, 80, Canadian sculptor
• February 27.- Jan Hoet, 77, Belgian art critic and curator
• February 28 – Gib Singleton, 78, American sculptor
• March 4 – Barrie Cooke, 83, English-born Irish artist
• March 16 – Markus Brüderlin, 55, Swiss art historian and curator
• March 18 – Ara Shiraz, 72, Armenian sculptor and architect
• March 27 – Gina Pellón, 87, expatriated Cuban painter living in France
• March 30 - Lyman Kipp, 84, American sculptor
• April 5 – Alan Davie, 93, British painter
• April 6 – Leee Black Childers, 68, American punk rock and art photographer
• April 7 – George Dureau, 83, American painter and photographer
• May 6
  • Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, implicated in the 2012 Munich artworks discovery
  • Maria Lassnig, 94, Austrian artist
• May 7
  • Elaine Sturtevant, 84, American pop and minimalist artist
  • David Prentice, 77, English painter
• May 10 – Patrick Woodroffe, 73, English painter and illustrator
• May 12 – H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss Academy Award-winning surrealist artist
• May 27 – Massimo Vignelli, 83, Italian graphic designer (New York City Subway map, American Airlines)
• June 6 – Eric Hill, 86, English-American author and illustrator
• June 9 – Kim Heungsou, 94, Korean painter
• June 14 – Ultra Violet, 78, French-American artist
• June 17 - Stanley Marsh 3, 76, American artist and philanthropist, patron of Cadillac Ranch
• June 22 - Jennifer Wynne Reeves, 51, American painter
• July 10 - On Kawara, 81, Japanese-born American conceptual artist
• July 12 - Nestor Basterretxea, 90, Spanish Basque artist
• July 17 - Otto Piene, 86, German artist
• July 20 - Constantin Lucaci, 91, Romanian sculptor
• July 25 - Richard Larter, 85, English-born Australian pop artist.
• July 27 - Sam Hunter, 91 American Art historian
• July 30 - Harun Farocki, 70, German filmmaker whose work was included in the Carnegie International^[35] and Documenta^[36]
• July 31 - King Robbo, English underground graffiti artist
• August 5 - Edward Leffingwell, 72, American art critic, curator
• August 17 - Ger van Elk, 73, Dutch artist
• August 20 - Sava Stojkov, 89, Serbian painter
• August 22 - Jean Sutherland Boggs, 92, Canadian first female museum director of the National Gallery of Canada (1966-1976) and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1978-1982)
• August 27 - Marjorie Strider, 83, American painter and sculptor
• September 29 - Luis Nishizawa, 96, Mexican painter
• November 8 - Hannes Hegen, 89, German illustrator and cartoonist
• November 15 - Jack Bridger Chalker, 96, English painter and academic
• November 23 - Lewis Baltz, 69, American visual artist and photographer
• November 27 - Wynn Chamberlain, 87, American artist, filmmaker and author
• December 6 - Renato Mambor, 78, Italian painter
• December 9 - Jane Freilicher, 90, American painter
• December 21 - Jane Bown, 89, English portrait photographer

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