2007 in art

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.

2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".

14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.

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"

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Dwight sculpture), Houston, Texas

David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter

Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates bronzes at Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England

Neo Rauch

Hunter's Room

Waiting for the Barbarians

Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London)

Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)

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).

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).

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).