2024 in art
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- January 23 – An illegally smuggled Hellenistic statuette of a Greek goddess is repatriated to Greece from the United States after sixteen years of negotiations.[1]
- January 24 – South Korea's Ministry of Unification confirms that the Arch of Reunification, a sculptural arch near Pyongyang, North Korea, has been demolished.[2]
- March 20 – Opening of the 81st Whitney Biennial in New York City, United States, lasting until August 11, 2024.[3]
- April 20 – Opening of the 60th Venice Biennale, lasting until November 24, 2024.[4]
- April 21 – A statue of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, by Hywel Pratley, is unveiled in Oakham, Rutland, UK.[5]
- May 16 – A statue of Billy Graham, by Chas Fagan, is erected at the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C.[6]
- May 25 – Opening of an exhibition of portraits of "Windrush generation", commissioned by King Charles III of the United Kingdom.[7]
- 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]
- July 26 – A performance staged as part of the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, causes controversy when it is seen by some parties as mocking the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and more specifically Leonardo da Vinci's famous fresco depiction of it.[9]
- 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]
Exhibitions
- March 20 until August 11 – The 81st Whitney Biennial (curated by Chrissie Iles and on partial view until September 29).[15]
- March 23 until July 7 – Urban Art Evolution (curated by Christopher Pusey) at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York[16]
- March 26 until July 14 – Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France,[17] then travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from September 8 until January 19, 2024.[18]
- March 27 until July 1 - Brancusi at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.[19]
- April 15 – August 20 – The Boyz from the Museum (Scot Borofsky, Chrisropher Hart Chambers, Linus Coraggio, Al Diaz, Ken Hirastuka, and Rick Prol) at the ilon Gallery in Harlem, New York City.[20]
- April 20 until November 24 – The 60th Venice Biennale.[21]
- April 26 until October 13 – Rebecca Horn at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.[22]
- May 7 until March 24, 2024 – Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.[23]
- June 14 until October 14 – Guillaume Lethière at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.[24] then named Guillaume Lethière: Born in Guadeloupe travels to the Musée du Louvre from November 13 until February 17. 2025,[25]
- August 9 until August 20 - Henry Orlik: Cosmos of Dreams at the Maas Gallery in London.[26]
- September- CJ Hendry: Flower Market at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City, New York.[27]
- September 6 until January 5, 2025 – The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917 at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.[28]
- September 13 until October 26 – Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue at Pace Gallery in New York City.[29]
- September 14 until October 18 – The Found Art of Thom Corn at Wall Works in the Bronx, New York (curated by Nancy August).[30][31]
- October 8 until February 9, 2025 - BAJ: Baj Chez Baj at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy.[32]
- October 9 until January 20, 2025 – Arte Povera (curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev with works by Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio). at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, France.[33]
- October 10 until January 3, 2025 - Ronnie Landfield, Recent Works, 2024 at Findlay Gallery, New York City. [34]
- October 10 until February 2, 2025 - Jean Tinguely at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Italy.[35]
- October 12 until February 9, 2025 - Tamara de Lempicka (curated by Furio Rinaldi) at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California, then traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Houston, Texas from March 9, 2025 to July 6, 2025 (extended).[36][37][38]
- October 13 until January 26, 2025 – Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City;[39] will travel to London's National Gallery in 2025[40]
- October 24 until December 7 – Cecily Brown: The Five Senses at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City.[41][42]
- October 25 until December 21 - Laurent Grasso: Artificialis at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City.[43]
- October 25 until February 9, 2025 - Magritte at the Art Gallery of New South Wales[44]
- October 31 - Continuing - Hajime Sorayama: Desire Machines at the Museum of Sex in Miami, Florida.[45]
- November 1 until February 15, 2025 - Adrian Berg: Phantasmagoria at Hunter Dunbar Projects in New York City.[46]
- November 7 until December 21 – James Little: Affirmed/Actions at Petzel in New York City.[47]
- November 8 until March 9, 2025 - Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[48]
- November 13 until February 28, 2025 - Kenny Scharf at the Brant Foundation Study Center in New York City.[49]
- December 5 until January 9, 2025 - Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome at the National Gallery in London.[50]
- December 14 until March 29, 2025 - Jean Michel Basquiat: ENGADIN at Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[51]
- December 17 until March 15, 2025 - Reflections: Koons/Picasso at The Alhambra at the Museum of Fine Arts, Palace Charles V, in Granada, Spain.[52]
