2016 in art
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The year 2016 in art involves various significant events.
Events
- March - The Met Breuer opens in the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[1]
The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in 2016. It is now known as the Met Breuer.
Exhibitions
- January 20 - April 17 - "In the Lion's Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire" at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.[2]
- February 18 until May 15 - "O'Keefe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.[3]
- February 18 until June 13 - "Munch and Expressionism" at the Neue Galerie in New York City.[4]
- March 2 until June 5 - "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture" at the Frick collection in New York City.[5]
- March 18 - September 4 - "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer in New York City.[6]
Deaths
- January 2 - Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor
- January 6 - Uche Okeke, 83, Nigerian artist
- January 10
- David Bowie, 69, British singer-songwriter, actor, visual artist and art collector
- Bård Breivik, 67, Norwegian sculptor [7]
- Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch born Venezuelan sculptor.
- January 13 - Lois Weisberg, 90, Cultural affairs commissioner of Chicago (1988-2011)
- January 16 - Joannis Avramidis, 93, Georgian-born Austrian sculptor
- January 17
- Melvin Day, 92, New Zealand artist
- Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer
- January 25 - Thornton Dial, 87, American artist
- February 11 - Charles Garabedian, 92, Armenian American painter
- February 12 – Sossen Krohg, 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director[8]
- February 16 - Eugenio Carmi, 95. Italian painter and sculptor
- February 18 - Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor
- March 3 - Tome Serafimovski, 80, Macedonian sculptor
- March 4 - Pirro Cuniberti, 92, Italian artist
- March 5
- Robert Redbird, 76, Native American artist
- Panayiotis Tetsis, 91, Greek painter
- March 10 - Anita Brookner, 87, British art historian and novelist
- March 11 - Rómulo Macció, 84, Argentine painter
- March 19 - Bob Adelman, 85, American photographer
- March 23 - Arie Smit, 99, Dutch-born Indonesian painter
- March 31 - Zaha Hadid, 65, Iraqi born British architect
- April 1 - André Villers, 85, French photographer
- April 2 - Rick Bartow, 69, Native American artist
- April 3 - Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist
- April 11 - Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patroness
- April 15
- A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter
- Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer (death announced on this date)
- April 16 - Richard Smith, 84, British painter
- April 24
- Inge King, 100, German born Australian sculptor
- George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist
- April 28 - Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer
- April 30 - Marisol Escobar, 86, French born Amrican sculptor of Venezuelan descent
- May 2
- Basil Blackshaw, 83-84, Northern Irish artist
- Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist
- May 4 - Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist "Non violence", (death announced on this date)
References
- ↑ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/arts/music/vijay-iyer-and-mark-turner-help-open-the-met-breuer.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/
- ↑ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/arts/design/the-artist-who-dared-to-paint-irelands-great-famine.html?referer=http://ighm.org/
- ↑ http://www.norton.org/exhibitions
- ↑ http://www.neuegalerie.org/content/munch-and-expressionism-0
- ↑ http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/van_dyck#sthash.Kun5OgD8.dpuf
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/unfinished
- ↑ Bård Breivik er død (Norwegian)
- ↑ Dahl, Ingvill Dybfest (2016-02-12). "Sossen Krohg er død". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-02-19.
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