June 4 – David Voss, alleged ringleader of Canada's biggest art fraud, pleads guilty to his involvement in the forgery of works by Norval Morrisseau.[8]
September 10 – Glenn Lowry, the longest serving director in the history of the Museum 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 – In Bologna, Italy the prolific Czech art vandal, Vaclav Pisvejc smashes an Ai Weiwei porcelain sculpture titled Porcelain Cube at the opening of the artist's exhibition at the Palazzo 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 opened Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida, and destroyed one of twelve vases employed in an installation by the Chinese dissident artist.[12]
November 19 – René Magritte's painting The 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 at Christie's setting both a new record price for a Surrealist work of art at auction and for a work by the artist.[13][14]
↑ Whitmore, Greg (22 February 2024). "Brian Griffin obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
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