2015 in art

The year 2015 in art involves various significant events.

Events

• February - Paul Gauguin's painting When Will You Marry? sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to Qatar Museums, the highest known price ever paid for any work of art.
• April 2 - Sir Peter Blake's temporary artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle, Mersey Ferry MV Snowdrop painted in a variation of dazzle camouflage, enters service on the River Mersey in England.^[1]
• April 13 - A South African man is charged with vandalising a Johannesburg statue of Mahatma Gandhi by attempting to paint it white.^[2]

Exhibitions

• January 31 until May 31 - "Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.^[3]
• February 6 until May 3 - "Tapies: From Within" at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.^[4]
• February 20 until May 24 - "Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic" at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.^[5]
• February 25 - May 24 - The "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience" at the New Museum in New York City.^[6][7]
• February 1 until May 3 - "Once in a Lifetime: Piero di Cosimo" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, then travels to Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (June 23–September 27, 2015).^[8]
• March 26 until September 13 - "Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong" at the Museum of Chinese in America" in New York City.^[9]
• July 18 until September 27 - Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes annual exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.^[10]

Deaths

• January 4 - Elisabetta Catalano, 70, Italian fine-art photographer
• January 5 - Milton Hebald, 97, American sculptor
• January 13 - Jane Wilson, 90, American painter
• January 15 - Walter Westbrook, 93, South African artist
• January 16
  • Ted Harrison, 88, British-born Canadian painter
  • Walter Peregoy, 89, American visual and animation background artist
• January 22 - Margaret Bloy Graham, 94, Canadian author and illustrator
• January 24 - Frances Lennon, 102, English painter and illustrator
• January 26 - Cleven "Goodie" Goudeau, 83, American greeting card artist
• January 29 - Will McBride, 84, American photographer
• January 31 - Vasco Bendini, 93, Italian painter
• February 3 - Walter Liedtke, 69, American art curator of European paintings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• February 12 - Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-Brazilian artist
• February 15.- Mikhail Koulakov, 82, Russian painter
• February 21 - John Knapp-Fisher, 83, British painter
• February 24 - Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter
• March 1 - Carel Visser, 86, Dutch sculptor
• March 7 - Osi Rhys Osmond, Welsh painter and television presenter
• March 11 - Inger Sitter, 85, Norwegian painter and graphic designer
• March 17 - Kuniyoshi Kaneko, 78, Japanese painter, illustrator and photographer
• March 21 - Hans Erni, 106, Swiss painter, designer and sculptor
• March 24 - Otto Frello, 90, Danish artist and illustrator
• March 26 - Albert Irvin, 92, British artist
• March 27 - Michael Rush, American museum director (the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum)
• March 31 - Betty Churcher, 84, Australian arts administrator and curator, director of the National Gallery of Australia (1990–1997)
• April 2 - Paule Anglim, 90+, American gallerist
• April 5 - Sargy Mann, 77, British painter
• April 11 - Lars Tunbjörk, 59, Swedish photographer. (death announced on this date)
• April 12 - Jože Ciuha, 90, Slovenian painter

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