What a year. Time for A&O to reflect on all that was, and look forward to all that will be in 2011. Here’s our pick of the litter, our top ten art world announcements from 2010. What are yours?
2010 Marked the Death of the Following 20th century Luminaries:
Dennis Hopper
Louise Bourgeois
Harvey Pekar
Frank Frezetta
JD Salinger
Howard Zinn
Alexander McQueen
Censorship Infuriates the Art World
Controversy blazes over the Smithsonian’s censorship of the David Wojnarowicz video piece “A Fire in My Belly” from the Hide/Seek exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Deitch Goes West
Deitch gives up the private sector and moves to the public realm as Director of MOCA in Los Angeles. As anticipated by detractors and fans alike, he causes quite a stir.
Chaos and Classicism at The Guggenheim
The Guggenheim delivers a curatorial gem. Chaos and Classicism focuses in on a seldom talked about moment in interwar European art, when a renewed interest in Classical aesthetics reigned.
Despite Economic Factors, Sales at Miami Art Basel Were Strong
Art Sales in Miami challenge, as they have in the past, the state of a globally jeopardized economy.
Bravo TV airs “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”
Art world heavyweights huddled on couches and crammed into bars to watch and weigh in on the first art-based reality TV show, “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”.
Scott Campbell Burns Art Over a Dispute with Vice Mexico gallery
After a dispute with Mexico’s Vice Gallery, Scott Campbell took the work from his sold- out show and burned it in the street.
An Art Mogul, the CEO of an Empire, and an Heiress Walk Into a Bar…
Larry Gagosian, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Russain heiress Dasha Zhukova, Wendi Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch’s wife), and others are teaming up to launch art.sy, an online art sales site that could very well be a game changer.
The First Online Art Fair
New York dealer James Cohan and internet entrepreneur Jonas Almgren announced the impending launch of the first online art fair.
$120 Million Dollar Art Fraud
The art world is hit by a financial schemer, Lawrence Salander, who defrauded his clients out of a total of 120 million dollars.
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