2009 in art
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The year 2009 in art involves some significant events. It was the Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009
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Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009
The Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009 or Kulturminneåret 2009 is aimed at highlighting the diversity and importance of Norway's cultural heritage for all sectors of the community...
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Events
- September 24 - René Magritte's painting Olympia (a nude portrait of his wife) is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels, by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about $1.1 million.
- Tim BurtonTim BurtonTimothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
's drawings are compiled and published under the name The Art of Tim Burton. - The Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
hosts Rob PruittRob PruittRobert "Rob" Pruitt is a visual artist based in New York City.Pruitt grew up in Rockville, Maryland. In a 2010 exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise he showed several works influenced by Amish tradition....
's First Annual Art Awards in New York.
Exhibitions
- The Pictures GenerationThe Pictures GenerationThe Pictures Generation was both the name of an exhibition at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a means to an end in being the first formal labeling of a group of artists exhibited around their appropriation of images from the consumer and media saturated age in which they grew to maturity...
, curated by Douglas Eklund, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CIty, (April 29 – August 2, 2010)
Awards
– The Venice Biennial-- Lion d'or Golden LionGolden LionIl Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
for Lifetime Achievement: Yoko OnoYoko Onois a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
(Japan), John BaldessariJohn BaldessariJohn Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
(USA) - Lion d'or for Best Pavilion: The United States of America exhbiting the work of Bruce NaumanBruce NaumanBruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....
Deaths
- January 10 – Coosje van BruggenCoosje van BruggenCoosje van Bruggen was a sculptor, art historian, and critic. She collaborated extensively with her husband, Claes Oldenburg.-Biography:...
, 66, wife and collaborator of sculptor Claes OldenburgClaes OldenburgClaes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects... - January 16 – Andrew WyethAndrew WyethAndrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century....
, 91, American painter - February 2 – Howard KanovitzHoward KanovitzHoward Kanovitz was a pioneering painter in the Photorealist and Hyperrealist Movements, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in response to the abstract art movement. - Life :...
, 79, American painter - March 8 – Ernest TrovaErnest TrovaErnest Tino Trova was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor. Best known for his signature image and figure series, The Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single "work in progress." Trova used classic American comic character toys in some of his pieces...
, 82, American sculptor - May 31 – Frederick HammersleyFrederick HammersleyFrederick Hammersley was a critically acclaimed American abstract painter whose participation in the landmark 1959 Four Abstract Classicists exhibit secured his place in art history.-Early years:...
, 90, American painter - June 4 – Robert ColescottRobert ColescottRobert H. Colescott, was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris...
, 83, American painter - June 16 – Frank MasonFrank MasonFrank Herbert Mason was an American painter and teacher.Mason was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the Music and Arts High School in New York until he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Students League of New York with Frank DuMond...
, 88, American painter and teacher - July 13- Dash SnowDash SnowDashiel "Dash" Snow was an American artist, based in New York.-Life:Dashiel A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow...
, 27, American artist - July 26 – Merce CunninghamMerce CunninghamMercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...
, 90, American dancer, choreographer who worked closely with Robert RauschenbergRobert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
and other visual artists. - July 28 – Tony RosenthalBernard RosenthalBernard J. Rosenthal , also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American abstract sculptor. He was the creator of the outdoor cube, Alamo that: “established him as a master of monumental public sculpture, and something of a standard bearer of the contemporary structurist esthetic.” He stated: ...
, 94, American sculptor - August 26 – Hyman BloomHyman BloomHyman Bloom was a painter. His work is influenced by his Jewish heritage, Eastern religions as well as artists including Altdorfer, Grunewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, William Blake, Rudolph Bresdin, J.M.W...
, 96, American painter - August 31 – Barry FlanaganBarry FlanaganBarry Flanagan RA OBE was a Welsh sculptor, best known for his bronze statues of hares.-Biography:Barry Flanagan was born in Prestatyn, North Wales. He studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts before going on to St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1964. Flanagan graduated in 1966 and...
, 68, English sculptor - September 5 – Richard MerkinRichard MerkinRichard Merkin was an American painter and illustrator.Merkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1938, and held degrees from Syracuse University and the Rhode Island School of Design...
, 70, American painter, illustrator - October 1 – Charles SeligerCharles SeligerCharles Seliger was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Manhattan June 3, 1926, and he died on 1 October 2009, in Westchester County, New York...
, 83, American painter - October 18 – Nancy SperoNancy SperoNancy Spero was an American visual artist.-Life and work:Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She was married to, and collaborated with artist Leon Golub....
, 83, American artist - October 27 – Roy DeCaravaRoy DeCaravaRoy Rudolph DeCarava was an American photographer. DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes collaborated on a notable 1955 book on life in Harlem, The Sweet Flypaper of Life...
, 90, American artist, photographer - November 11 – Irving KriesbergIrving KriesbergIrving Kriesberg was an American painter whose work combined elements of Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements of human and animal forms...
, 90, American painter - November 18 – Jeanne-Claude, 74, French artist
- November 26 – Peter ForakisPeter ForakisPeter Forakis was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California. Eventually they settled in Modesto, California...
, 82 American sculptor - December 10 – Thomas HovingThomas HovingThomas Pearsall Field Hoving was an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.-Biography:...
, 78, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...