May 18 –Sotheby's auctionsJean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 paintingUntitled created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull, and in doing so the work sets a new record high for any U.S. artist at auction, selling for $110,500,000.[2]
October - A section of marblemosaic flooring from one of theRoman EmperorCaligula'spleasure ships fromLake Nemi inLazio is repatriated to Italy after having been rediscovered by happenstance by the author and antiquity restorerDario del Bufalo to have been serving as a coffee table in the apartment of New York City and husband and wife antique dealers Helen and Nereo Fioratti.[5]
October 7 - The President of theLouvre inParis,Jean-Luc Martinez objects to the work "Domestikator" (2015) byAtelier Van Lieshout an architectural sculpture in which two interlocking buildings appear to be engaged in a sexual act and pulls it from the exhibition Hors Les Murs, (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemperain’s outdoor program of architectural projects, sculptures, performances, and sound pieces that runs concurrently to the fair) held in theTuileries Garden where it would have been displayed nearby a playground and instead the work is displayed by theCentre Georges Pompidou in the front square outside of that art institution for a simultaneous run.[6][7]
April 3 untilJune 9 - "Hubert Davis: Scenes ofPennsylvania" at the Ron K. DeLong Gallery atPenn State Lehigh Valley in Central Valley (catalogue essay by Vincent DiCicco),[18] Pennsylvania in concert with "Hubert Davis: Foreign Lands" (May 16 - June 26) curated by Deborah Rabinsky at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center inAllentown, Pennsylvania, and “Hubert Davis: Costume Design” (May 22 to July 21) at the 514 Gallery in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[19][20][21]
GCC (art collective) (Nanu Al-Hamad, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Aziz Alqatami, Barrak Alzaid, Khalid al Gharaballi, Amal Khalaf,Fatima Al Qadiri, and Monira Al Qadiri) – "Local Police Find Fruit with Spells".[42][43]
Yinka Shonibare – "Wind Sculpture" conceived and designed in 2017 installed by thePublic Art Fund on the outside perimeter of Central Park atGrand Army Plaza at East 60th in New York City from March 7, 2018 until October 14, 2018.[55]
