May 9 – Charles Ray's sculpture "Boy with Frog" is removed by the city of Venice from where it stood before the Punta della Dogana overlooking where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal. The work which had been commissioned by Francois-Henri Pinault to stand outside the aforementioned historic building which serves as an annex to his main museum housed in the Palazzo Grassi is replaced by a contemporary copy of a streetlamp which once stood at the same spot.[5]
July 10 – Reclusive English artist Audrey Amiss dies at the age of 79 in London, leaving behind a personal archive including hundreds of albums and books, and around 50,000 sketches.[7]
October – The English street artist Banksy stages an entire month of daily public installations all over New York City entitled "Better Out Than In".[10]
October 21 – Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin resigns citing personal reasons.[11] Numerous published sources later revealed that the married Franklin had been involved in an affair with a subordinate. When this revelation came to the attention of the board, Franklin chose to leave.[12] The woman in question, Christina Gaston, committed suicide.[13]
November 20 – The "Graffiti Mecca" 5Pointz on the sides of a twentieth-century warehouse in Long Island City, Queens, New York, is whitewashed by a team of painters in the employ of the site's new developers.[17]
November 25 – "The Church of Vezzoli", the PS1, New York City leg of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli's three part retrospective, "The Trinity", is cancelled after the church he arranged to buy in the town of Montegiordano for deployment in the exhibition is remanded in Italy prior to its leaving the country for the United States.[18]
December 12 – From today until March 16, 2014, the Dying Gaul is put on display in the main rotunda of the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This temporary tenure marks the first time the antiquity has left Italy since it was returned in the second decade of the nineteenth century after Napoleon brought it to the Louvre in 1797 as a plunder of war.
October 24 until May 26, 2014 – Christopher Wool at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[42]
November 7 until February 2 – ""And Materials and Money in Crisis" (curated by Richard Birkett in dialogue with Sam Lewitt) at MOMUK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) Vienna, Austria.[43]
March 16 – "Big Air Package" Christo filled the Gasometer Oberhausen with the "largest ever inflated envelops without aid of a skeleton" and the instillation continued until December 30. It was the first major work by the artist following the passing of his wife and artistic collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.[47]
Alex Chinneck – From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes is installed in Margate and Under the Weather But Over the Moon in Blackfriars Road, London, England.
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