The year 2019 in art involved various significant events.

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December 7 – The banana and duct tape in Comedian, an artwork created in an edition of three for the 2019 installation of Art Basel Miami Beach by Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of the aforementioned fruit held to a wall by duct tape (the initial one of which was sold to an unnamed French art collector for US$120,000) is summarily eaten by David Datuna a self-styled performance vigilante who names his piece Hungry Artist and says of the finished work "It was very delicious". Galerie Perrotin, the exhibitor of the work at the art fair, replaces the fruit and states that the work is an "idea".[30]

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  4. ^ Gayford, Martin (2021). Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-09436-5.
  5. ^ "Disputed Painting Is a Real van Gogh, Researchers Say". The New York Times. Associated Press. 24 March 2019.
  6. ^ "29ème édition du 13 au 22 avril 2019". www.festival-oiseau-nature.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  7. ^ "Sketch of Bearded Man 'Identified as Leonardo da Vinci'". Bloomberg News. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Jeff Koons' $91 million sculpture the priciest sold for any living artist". New York Daily News. 17 May 2019.
  9. ^ "American Artist Jeff Koons' "Rabbit" Sculpture Auctions for a Record $91 Million".
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  11. ^ Sawa, Dale Berning (2019-06-06). "Comrades for ever: how D-day bravery was sculpted in bronze". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  12. ^ "Sketches hidden underneath Leonardo masterpiece revealed after 500 years". CNN. 14 August 2019.
  13. ^ "Josef Albers's Manhattan returns to its rightful place in the MetLife building". 23 September 2019.
  14. ^ "Man Vandalizes Iconic Wall Street Charging Bull Landmark with Banjo, Police Say". Archived from the original on 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  15. ^ "Repairs underway on Wall Street Charging Bull after vandalism". 23 October 2019.
  16. ^ Brown, Mark (May 3, 2019). "Flushed with success: solid-gold toilet to be installed at Blenheim". The Guardian. London.
  17. ^ "Maurizio Cattelan Has Installed His Golden Toilet in the Stately Bathroom Where Winston Churchill Once Sat". artnet News. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Busted flush: gold toilet reportedly stolen from Blenheim Palace". The Guardian. London. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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  20. ^ "'I wish it was a prank': Maurizio Cattelan on the surreal theft of his golden toilet". www.theartnewspaper.com. 14 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Artist behind £4.8m gold toilet praises thieves who have taken it". Sky News. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  22. ^ "'Banksy' display featuring Stormzy stab vest appears in Croydon". BBC News. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  23. ^ "Banksy painting of MPs as chimpanzees sells for £9.9m". BBC News. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  24. ^ "Global climate protests: Activists pour fake blood on famous Wall Street bull". USA Today.
  25. ^ "'A new MoMA': New York's Museum of Modern Art reopening after $450 million expansion". USA Today.
  26. ^ "Cimabue painting found in French kitchen sets auction record". BBC News. 2019-10-27. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  27. ^ "Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works by women in 2020". The Washington Post.
  28. ^ "The Venice Biennale Shuts Down as the City is Hit by Its Worst Floods in Half a Century". 13 November 2019.
  29. ^ "Hoard of Baroque Jewels Stolen in German Museum Heist". Wall Street Journal. 26 November 2019.
  30. ^ a b "Banana artwork that fetched $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist". TheGuardian.com. 8 December 2019.
  31. ^ Nadeau, Barbie Latza (22 January 2020). "Guilty Thieves Explain Why They Gave Back Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady'". The Daily Beast.
  32. ^ "Rebecca Salter Becomes Twenty-Seventh President of The Royal Academy". Artlyst. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  33. ^ "Picasso painting attacked at Tate Modern". BBC News. 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  34. ^ "Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  35. ^ "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now". Guggenheim.org. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
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  37. ^ "Brooklyn Museum: Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  38. ^ "9 Art Events in New York This Week: African Art Restitution, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, and More". ARTnews. 4 February 2019.
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  40. ^ "William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum". Yale Center for British Art. Archived from the original on 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  41. ^ "Piero Manzoni Materials of His Time". Hauser & Wirth.
  42. ^ "Exhibitions — Piero Manzoni Lines, Materials of His Time - Piero Manzoni". Hauser & Wirth.
  43. ^ "Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture". The Frick Collection.
  44. ^ "Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  45. ^ "Joan Miró: Birth of the World". Apollo Magazine. 15 February 2019.
  46. ^ Dunne, Susan (27 March 2019). "Matthew Barney is at it again. Film, sculpture, engravings come together to create 'Redoubt' at Yale". courant.com.
  47. ^ "Matthew Barney: Redoubt". Yale University Art Gallery.
  48. ^ "Diane von Furstenberg and Painter Ashley Longshore Team up for an Awe-Inspiring In-Store Show". Vanity Fair. 6 March 2019.
  49. ^ "Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Longshore Team up on Art Collection". 4 March 2019.
  50. ^ "Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist". Artsy.
  51. ^ "Damien Hirst". Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
  52. ^ "Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes".
  53. ^ "Frankenthaler in Venice | Christie's".
  54. ^ Wullschläger, Jackie (3 May 2019). "The ecstatic nihilism of the painter Alberto Burri". Financial Times.
  55. ^ "Jean Dubuffet retrospective opening in Venice for the city's art biennale".
  56. ^ "Exhibition | 'David Hammons' at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, USA". 23 November 2021.
  57. ^ "Review: If an artist sets up a homeless camp inside a blue-chip art gallery, does anyone care?". Los Angeles Times. 18 June 2019.
  58. ^ "Painter Sean Scully is Planning a Deeply Personal Exhibition in a Venice Church That Will Pay Tribute to His Lost Son". 5 March 2019.
  59. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2019".
  60. ^ "Lee Krasner". Barbican. 30 May 2019.
  61. ^ "Renoir: The Body, The Senses". Clark Art Institute. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  62. ^ "Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass".
  63. ^ "MCA - Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech"".
  64. ^ "Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking". Dulwich Picture Gallery.
  65. ^ "There is no nature". Archived from the original on 2019-06-30. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  66. ^ "Carmen Herrera's dream project to bloom in New York's City Hall Park". 8 July 2019.
  67. ^ "Paul Klee: 1939". David Zwirner Gallery.
  68. ^ "The Baum School of Art".
  69. ^ "Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence". The Frick Collection.
  70. ^ "John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal". 14 February 2019.
  71. ^ "Exhibition Opening: J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate in Mystic, CT".
  72. ^ "The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I". Metropolitan Museum of Art (Press release).
  73. ^ "Hogarth: Place and Progress". 4 March 2019.
  74. ^ "Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet".
  75. ^ "Edward Hopper and the American Hotel - Exhibitions". 23 February 2020. Archived from the original on 30 November 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  76. ^ "Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe".
  77. ^ "Jean-Marie Appriou: The Horses". Public Art Fund.
  78. ^ "An Artist Ate the $120K USD Banana at Art Basel Miami Beach (UPDATE)". 8 December 2019.
  79. ^ "How the Unhinged Reaction to Maurizio Cattelan's Banana Revealed the Thin Line Between the Art World and Total Anarchy". 9 December 2019.
  80. ^ Sheets, Hilarie M. (29 October 2019). "A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It's a George Condo Creation". The New York Times.
  81. ^ "The appetising art driving people bananas". BBC News.
  82. ^ "Art Basel caused this South Beach traffic jam — and that's a good thing". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2019-12-17.
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  84. ^ "Step into Jean-Luc Godard's office – recreated at Fondazione Prada". 10 December 2019.
  85. ^ "Anatomy of an artwork: Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour". The Guardian (London) The Guide 31 July–6 August 2021 p. 25.
  86. ^ Rea, Naomi (18 October 2019). "What Do the French Think of Jeff Koons's Divisive Gift? We Asked People on the Street". Artnet News. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  87. ^ "Artist Alicja Kwade Wants You to Pause and Reflect on the Cosmic Wonder and Vastness of the Universe". Artnet News. 16 April 2019.
  88. ^ "James Little's Black Paintings are a 'Volley of Minimalist Ideals' Exposing the Drama, Richness, and Contrasting Values of Black". 22 October 2020.
  89. ^ "Artist Mark Manders talks about his monumental Tilted Head at Central Park". 14 March 2019.
  90. ^ "'Big, bold, audacious' Kent Monkman artworks 'at home' at the Met, says curator". CBC News.
  91. ^ "The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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  93. ^ "New Steve Reich Piece Paired with Gerhard Richter Work Premieres at the Shed in NYC". Nonesuch Records. 4 April 2019.
  94. ^ "Reich Richter Pärt". The Shed.
  95. ^ Kelly, Ray (7 February 2019). "'Ivanka Vacuuming' museum performance draws ire of Trump family, supporters". masslive.com.
  96. ^ "Opulent Ascension » Sean Scully". Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  97. ^ "Sean Scully delivers sermon of stripes at Venetian church". 29 April 2019.
  98. ^ "Sorawit Songsataya: The Interior". 22 November 2019.
  99. ^ "Hank Willis Thomas - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023". Phillips.
  100. ^ "Boy Walking sculpture now installed in Potters Park". 25 June 2023.
  101. ^ Doyne, Shannon (30 September 2019). "Lesson of the Day: 'Kehinde Wiley's Times Square Monument: That's No Robert E. Lee'". The New York Times.
  102. ^ "New York's largest vinyl mural, a 15-story piece by artist Domingo Zapata, was unveiled in Times Square Monday". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  103. ^ Alex Greenberger (24 January 2019). "Apichatpong Weerasethakul Wins 2019 Artes Mundi Prize". ArtNews.
  104. ^ "Jimmie Durham Will Receive Venice Biennale's 2019 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement". 4 April 2019.
  105. ^ "Lithuania gets the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion in Venice". 11 May 2019.
  106. ^ "The Goldfinch is a Handsome Movie, but It Lies Flat as a Painting".
  107. ^ "Matthew Barney's New Film Stars an NRA Rifle Champ as a Mythological Huntress in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains". 19 February 2019.
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  109. ^ Oliver Basciano (1 February 2019). "Susan Hiller obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
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  111. ^ "Irving Lavin (1927–2019), Iconic Art Historian, Dies at 91". IAS. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
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