Overview of the events of 2007 in art
Overview of the events of 2007 in art
The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Exhibitions [ edit ] Sanford Biggers - Blossom [11] Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas) Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta) Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt )[12] David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)[13] Maya Lin - Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art ) John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina) Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England) Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph) Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial , Staffordshire, England) Neo Rauch Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem , Manhattan , New York City)[14] Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern , London) Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)[15] [16] [17] James Turrell – Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College , Claremont , California, United States) January to March [ edit ] 8 January – Iwao Takamoto , Japanese American animator , television producer and film director (b.1925 ). 11 January – Bryan Pearce , English naïve painter (b.1929 ). 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 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 [ edit ] 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 ).[19] 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 [ edit ] 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 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 [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Rothstein, Edward (2007-04-21). "Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated Identity" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-03-02 . ^ "The Star | Malaysia News: National, Regional and World News" . Archived from the original on 2008-09-22. ^ "Armando Museum in Ruins After Fire" . Blouin Artinfo. 2007-10-24. 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