June 4 – David Voss, alleged ringleader of Canada's biggest art fraud, pleads guilty to his involvement in the forgery of works byNorval Morrisseau.[8]
September 10 –Glenn Lowry, the longest serving director in the history of theMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City announces that he will step down from that position in 2025 after thirty years as the museum's operating chief.[10]
September 20 – InBologna, Italy the prolific Czech art vandal, Vaclav Pisvejc smashes anAi Weiwei porcelain sculpture titledPorcelain Cube at the opening of the artist's exhibition at thePalazzo Fava Museum.[11] This was the second high-profile smashing of a work by Ai Wei Wei as in 2014 Dominican-born Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero walked into the then recently openedPérez Art Museum Miami inMiami, Florida, and destroyed one of twelve vases employed in an installation by the Chinese dissident artist.[12]
November 19 –René Magritte's paintingThe Empire of Light (1954) (from a series of 27 such works consisting of 17 oil paintings and 10 gouaches) sells for US$121.1 million atChristie's setting both a new record price for aSurrealist work of art at auction and for a work by the artist.[13][14]
