Timeline · 2020–2029
The 2020s (2020–2029) fall within the contemporary era and works only lately entering the public domain. Across these years the gallery holds 124 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (21 works) and Photo unknown. among its most prolific hands.
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Fragments of wall painting 2021 
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A Great Disruption 2022 
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On March 11, 2021, Christie's closed its online auction of Beeple's Everydays: The First 5000 Days, an NFT-linked digital collage drawn from Mike Winkelmann's daily-image project.…
The sale made NFTs unavoidable in contemporary-art market discourse.
What else happened that dayIn the early hours of January 25, 2025, thieves used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, and stole major loans from the exhibition Dacia: Kingdom…
The heist became a major test case for international loan security and the vulnerability of archaeological gold to destructive theft.
What else happened that dayOn January 28, 2021, Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel sold at Sotheby's New York for $92.2 million including fees, with an $80 million hammer price.…
The sale reset Botticelli's market and signaled continuing demand for rare museum-quality Old Masters.
What else happened that dayOn March 4, 2025, the Pritzker Architecture Prize announced Liu Jiakun of Chengdu as its 2025 laureate. The prize citation emphasized his architecture for ordinary citizens, his…
The award elevated Liu's socially grounded architecture as a global model for dense, humane urban life.
What else happened that daySharjah Biennial 15, "Thinking Historically in the Present," opened across Sharjah Art Foundation venues, including the newly inaugurated Kalba Ice Factory. Initially conceived by…
The edition strengthened Sharjah's role as a global biennial platform shaped by postcolonial curatorial thinking.
What else happened that dayOn 21 February 2022, France's restitution law for certain cultural goods taken from victims of antisemitic persecution became the legal mechanism for returning works held in…
The case created a visible precedent for legislating restitution from French national collections.
What else happened that dayCentre Pompidou's Brancusi exhibition opened on March 27, 2024, and ran through July 1. The museum's page describes it as an exceptional tribute to the father of modern sculpture,…
It renewed Brancusi's centrality to modern sculpture through the institution most closely tied to his Paris studio legacy.
What else happened that dayFaith Ringgold: American People opened at the New Museum on February 17, 2022. The museum's own exhibition data gives the start date as 2022-02-17 and describes the show as the…
The retrospective significantly strengthened Ringgold's position within the canon of postwar American art.
What else happened that dayThe Metropolitan Museum of Art opened Alice Neel: People Come First at The Met Fifth Avenue. The museum described it as the first New York museum retrospective of Neel in twenty…
The retrospective reinforced Neel's central place in narratives of social realism, feminism, and modern portraiture.
What else happened that dayThe Statue of Lakshmi-Narayana, a historic Vaikuntha Kamalaja stele from Patan, was handed over to Nepalese custody in Washington, D.C. after decades outside Nepal. The sculpture…
The return became a visible precedent for further claims on Nepalese sacred objects abroad.
What else happened that daySandro Botticelli's late devotional panel The Man of Sorrows closed at Sotheby's New York on January 27, 2022, in the Master Paintings and Sculpture Part I sale. Sotheby's lot…
The sale reinforced the exceptional market status of rare Old Master works with revised attributions.
What else happened that dayAlice Neel: People Come First opened at the de Young Museum on March 12, 2022, following presentations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Bilbao. The career-spanning…
The exhibition helped consolidate Neel's late canonization as a central American realist and feminist portrait painter.
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