Timeline · 2010–2019
The 2010s (2010–2019) fall within the contemporary era and works only lately entering the public domain. Across these years the gallery holds 799 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (51 works) and Emily Sutton among its most prolific hands.
Shane Williams 2019 
From Cogan's Shed 2015 
Sabina 2015 
Whenever the Rainbow Appears 2018 
Landscape 2019 
Traces Ouvertes 2015 
Charioteer 2013 
Gentle gesture flowing lines Silken Movement 3 2010 
Gisler, Pia - Malerei, Ohne Titel 2014 
I am an infinity in the Becoming 2019 
Morin, Geneviève - Malerei, Chimère (Révolution) 2012 
Kingdom 2011 
By the Love Which Moves the Sun and Other Stars 2019 
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On February 3, 2010, Sotheby's London sold Alberto Giacometti's bronze L'Homme qui marche I in its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale. The auction catalogue identifies the…
The result accelerated the market revaluation of modern sculpture and helped make Giacometti a benchmark for trophy-level auction prices.
What else happened that dayMarina Abramovic's retrospective The Artist Is Present opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 14, 2010. The exhibition surveyed and reperformed decades of Abramovic's…
The exhibition made durational performance a central, widely recognized museum form.
What else happened that dayOn March 16, 2013, Christo opened Big Air Package inside the Gasometer Oberhausen, the vast former gas holder in Germany's Ruhr region. The installation, which remained on view…
The project extended Christo and Jeanne-Claude's legacy of temporary monumental art into a postindustrial exhibition space.
What else happened that dayLucio Fontana: On the Threshold opened at the Met Breuer and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue, running from January 23 to April 14 before traveling to Guggenheim…
The retrospective broadened U.S. understanding of Fontana beyond the cut canvas and reasserted Spatialism's place in postwar art.
What else happened that dayOn March 18, 2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the Met Breuer in Marcel Breuer's former Whitney Museum building on Madison Avenue. Architectural Digest documented the…
Although short-lived, the Met Breuer sharpened debate over how encyclopedic museums should present modern and contemporary art.
What else happened that dayThe Museum of Modern Art opened Picasso's Guitars 1912-1914 on February 13, 2011. Artforum's fetched exhibition page gives the exact run, February 13-June 6, and identifies Anne…
It reinforced Picasso's guitars as touchstones for modern constructed sculpture and collage.
What else happened that dayTwenty-eight artists participating in the 19th Biennale of Sydney published an open letter to the Biennale's board on February 19, 2014, objecting to the exhibition's sponsorship…
The campaign led to withdrawals, widened debate about arts sponsorship ethics, and preceded the Biennale board's decision to cut ties with…
What else happened that dayThe 2014 Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 7. Curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, it adopted an unusual structure in…
It closed the Breuer-building era of the Whitney Biennial before the museum's downtown relocation.
What else happened that dayOn March 17, 2017, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened Whitney Biennial 2017, the seventy-eighth installment of its long-running survey of American art. Co-curated by…
The exhibition sharpened public debate over who may represent traumatic histories inside major art institutions.
What else happened that dayOn March 11, 2010, Neue Galerie New York opened Otto Dix, a retrospective of the German artist whose portraits and social scenes gave Weimar-era modernism some of its sharpest…
The exhibition gave North American museum audiences a concentrated encounter with Dix's Weimar modernism.
What else happened that dayThe Salvador Dali Museum's new waterfront building in St. Petersburg, Florida, opened on January 11, 2011. The museum traces its collection to A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse, who…
The building strengthened the museum's role as the principal American center for Dali's art and archives.
What else happened that dayJasper Johns received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on February 15, 2011. Johns had already been central to postwar American art for more than half…
The award confirmed Johns's status as a national cultural figure as well as a market and museum landmark.
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