A series of annualeditathons entitledart + Feminism commences. Held by members of theWikipedia community, they are undertaken in order to try to level off a gender disparity gap on the subject of the visual arts on the internet reference tool's site.[1]
January 22 – The value of Canada's leading contemporary art award, theSobey Art Award, is increased to a total of $100,000.[2]
February 16 – Dominican-born Miami-based artistMaximo Caminero walks into the recently openedPérez Art Museum Miami inMiami, Florida, and smashes one of twelve vases employed in an installation by the Chinese dissident artistAi Wei Wei. Caminero later tells theMiami New Times that he destroyed the vase "for all the local artists in Miami that have never been shown in museums here." Miami's museums and galleries, he claims, "have spent so many millions now on international artists," without, in his view, giving any attention to local talent. Later Wei Wei tellsThe New York Times "The argument does not support the act... It doesn't sound right, his argument doesn’t make much sense. If he really had a point, he should choose another way, because this will bring him trouble to destroy property that does not belong to him."[5] Caminero also tells police that he had been inspired by Wei Wei's own performance piece and triptychDropping a Han Dynasty Urn.[6]
April – The organizationA Gathering of the Tribes and its founder and longtime executive directorSteve Cannon are forced to relocate and its art gallery permanently shut when the occupancy agreement they had with the woman to whom the building had earlier been sold, Lorraine Zhang, ends. Simultaneously, a wall which retained some of an art-piece byDavid Hammons (which in a prior transaction had been sold to the art collectorDimitris Daskalopoulos after having been reproduced and the originality of the object transferred) is removed and relocated by the organization and replaced by another minus the previously pedigreed adornment.[7]
April 8 - The websiteArtspace publishes the articleFlipping and the Rise of Zombie Formalism by the art writer and painterWalter Robinson in which he coins the termZombie Formalism.[8]
May – A section ofWe the People by the Vietnamese born Danish artistDanh Vo consisting of pieces of a disassembled replica scale model of theStatue of Liberty in the original sculpture's initial copper sheen is stolen by a thief as the work is laid out inCity Hall Park in New York City for installation and then public exhibition.[10]
May 13 – A painting byJoan Mitchell of a bouquet.Untitled (1960), sells at auction during the post-war and contemporary art auction atChristie's in New York City for $11.9 million U.S., the highest price ever paid at an auction for a work of art by a woman, surpassing the $10.9 million paid forBerthe Morisot's "After Lunch" (1881) the previous year.[11][12]
July 7 –Odalisque in Red Pants byHenri Matisse (which was stolen off the wall at the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas in the capital city ofVenezuela and replaced with aforgery placed inside its former frame and then recovered in anFBI sting operation inMiami, Florida) arrives back in the South American nation after being returned by the United States government.
September 14 – AStatue of Amy Winehouse, created by Scott Eaton is unveiled atStables Market,Camden Town in London, to mark the 31st birthday of the singer/songwriterAmy Winehouse (died 2011). Winehouse was heavily associated with Camden Town and the bronze sculpture will remain in this location as an armorial to the star.[21]Bronze statue of Winehouse inCamden Town, London unveiled in September 2014
November - Thestatue of Adam byTullio Lombardo which fell off its pedestal at theMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2002 is put back on display at the museum after extensive period of repair and restoration said to be the most elaborate costly, and time consuming in the institution's history to date.[22]
November 20 – A canvas by the American painterGeorgia O'Keeffe entitledJimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932) sells for $44.1 million atSotheby's in New York City, rendering it the highest known price ever paid for a work of art by a female artist and doubling and nearly tripling the $11.9 record previously paid only six months earlier for the Joan Mitchell workUntitled (1960).[26]
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