2007 in art

The year 2007 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 18 October - In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits.
• 20 December - The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café,^[1] is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
• 52nd Venice Biennale June 10 - November 21
• 100th Birthday of Frida Kahlo July 6

Exhibitions

• 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
• Caldecott Medal - David Wiesner, Flotsam
• Turner Prize - Mark Wallinger, State Britain
• Wynne prize - Philip Wolfhagen, Winter Nocturne IV

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).
• 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).
• 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 - Andre Emmerich, art dealer and 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).
• 14 December - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926).
• 31 December - Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b.1924).

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