April - The Terrus museum at Elne in the south of France, dedicated to paintings by Étienne Terrus, discovers that half its collection, 82 works, is counterfeit.[2]
May - The Collection of Peggy Rockefeller and David Rockefeller is auctioned off in three sales at Christie's, Rockefeller Center, New York City. On the evening of May 8 the first night of the sale Young Girl with a Flower Basket (oil on canvas, 1905) by Pablo Picasso is sold for $US115 million.[5] along with world record prices for works by Claude Monet (Nymphéas en fleur 1914-1917 $84.7 million) and Henri Matisse (Odalisque couchée aux magnolias 1923 $80.7 million), all contributing to a new world record for a single collection at auction of $832.6 million, the record previously having been held by the $484 million total achieved for the art collection of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent.[6][7]
July - A 1967 painting, "Untitled" by Robert Motherwell missing for more than forty years is returned after apparently having been stolen by a ring of art thieves.[9]
November 15 - A canvas by David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) sells at Christies in New York City for $90.3 million US dollars with fees, thus shattering the previous record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist ever sold at auction. The record price was previously held by a "Balloon Dog (orange)" sculpture by Jeff Koons for $58.4 million also at Christies in New York City in 2013.[13][14]
December 7 - In the United States of America, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), the defendant in a lawsuit brought by artist Anish Kapoor, settles with the plaintiff in the case. Therein the gun lobby group had without the sculptor's consent used a filmed image of his work in an approximately one minute long promotional video called "The Violence of Lies". Kapoor says of the victory which is inclusive of having the image of his work removed from the NRA's film that "They have now complied with our demand to remove the unauthorized image of my sculpture Cloud Gate from their abhorrent video, which seeks to promote fear, hostility, and division in American society.”[16][17]
February 13 until May 27 - "Songs for Sabotage" The fourth New MuseumTriennial curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Alex Gartenfeld at the New Museum in New York City.[19]
Director Libuše Rudínská made a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Jindřich Štreit on the body. The premiere of the film took place on 27 February in the Metropol cinema in Olomouc.
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