2007 in art

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The year 2007 in art involved some significant events.

Events

18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits.
20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café,^[1] is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
52nd Venice Biennale June 10 – November 21

Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007

8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (b.1925).
20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942).
4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922).
14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925).
22 February – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918).
22 February – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (b.1965).
2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955).
6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929).
16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921).

7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931).
8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928).
10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919).
15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920).
17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910).
3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913).
26 May – James Beck, American art historian (b.1930).
28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945).
2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943).
17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944).
22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931).
26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929).

7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (b.1925).
17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971).
22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (b.1950).
9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922).
11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919).
12 August – Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker and draughtsman (b.1940).
12 August – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963).
17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936).
24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907).
25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist.

5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962).
8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917).
21 October – R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932).
21 October – Ileana Sonnabend, art dealer and gallerist.
30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927).
16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924).
4 December – Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932).
4 December - Herman Rose 98, painter (b.1909).
14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926).
31 December – Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b.1924).