The year 2020 in art involved various significant events.

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  1. ^ Brown, Mark (20 January 2020). "Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. ^ Hughes, Pete (31 August 2020). "Ashmolean Museum Rembrandt confirmed as authentic". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  3. ^ Dafoe, Taylor (10 February 2020). "A Small Pennsylvania Museum Just Discovered It Has Owned a Rembrandt for 70 Years Without Knowing It". artnet news. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. ^ "David Hockney's The Splash fetches £23.1m at auction". BBC News. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Banksy confirms Bristol Valentine's Day artwork is his". BBC News. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Coronavirus: Who is behind Glasgow's Covid street art?". BBC News. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Thrift Store Wood Engraving Print Turns Out To Be Salvador Dalí Artwork". NPR. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Van Dyck painting stolen from University of Oxford gallery". BBC News. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Van Gogh painting Spring Garden stolen from Dutch museum". BBC News. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  10. ^ King, Grace. "Iowa's beloved 'Hula-Hoop Tree' cut down by landowner". The Gazette.
  11. ^ "Coronavirus: Banksy makes 'bathroom' lockdown art". BBC News. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  12. ^ Small, Zachary (24 March 2020). "San Francisco's Top Art School Plans Closing After Almost 150 Years". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Gompertz, Will (6 May 2020). "New Banksy artwork appears at Southampton hospital". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  14. ^ Jones, Rebecca (7 May 2020). "Sir Quentin Blake does 'The Robot'". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Turner Prize 2020 axed and replaced by £100k fund for struggling artists". BBC News. 26 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  16. ^ "George Floyd death: Protesters tear down slave trader statue". BBC News. 7 June 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  17. ^ Bekiempis, Victoria (16 June 2020). "The Art World's 'Mini Madoff' Has Been Arrested in the South Pacific". Vulture.
  18. ^ "The Gray Market: Why Inigo Philbrick's Arrest Doesn't Mean the Art Market Is Done With Him Yet (and Other Insights)". artnet News. 15 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Who Is Inigo Philbrick, the Art World Scammer Who Tricked Clients Out of $20 Million?". Observer. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  20. ^ Reyes, Lorenzo; Flores, Jessica; Bote, Joshua (17 June 2020). "Protest updates: Atlanta police officer won't be 'state's witness,' lawyers say; Senate Republicans push police reform". USA TODAY.
  21. ^ "Richmond, Virginia Removing Statue Of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart". 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020.
  22. ^ "Salvator Mundi! The Musical—tale of world's most expensive painting to be turned into a stage blockbuster". www.theartnewspaper.com. 29 July 2020.
  23. ^ "Banksy: New coronavirus-inspired artwork appears on Tube". BBC News. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  24. ^ a b "Black Lives Matter protester statue appears on Edward Colston plinth". BBC News. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  25. ^ Harris, Gareth (16 July 2020). "Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter sculpture removed by Bristol council". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  26. ^ Durón, Maximilíano (27 July 2020). "Artist Saul Fletcher Is Murder Suspect in Berlin-Based Curator Rebeccah Blum's Death [Updated]".
  27. ^ "'Remember her name and nobody else's': shock at suspected murder of curator Rebeccah Blum". www.theartnewspaper.com. 31 July 2020.
  28. ^ "Paolo Uccello". Sotheby's.
  29. ^ Alberge, Dalya (26 July 2020). "A Renaissance masterpiece, Nazi looters, a double murder … and a happy ending". The Observer. London. p. 21. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  30. ^ "Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth swirl of cream sculpture unveiled". BBC News. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020..
  31. ^ Jacobs, Julia (25 September 2020). "Philip Guston Blockbuster Show Postponed by Four Museums". The New York Times.
  32. ^ Jacobs, Emma. "Museums Postpone Show Over Late Artist's Images Of Hooded Klansmen". www.capradio.org.
  33. ^ "The Postponed Philip Guston Show Will Now Open in 2022 With New Contributions From Artists and Historians". artnet News. 5 November 2020.
  34. ^ Pidd, Helen (16 November 2020). "Manchester prepares for fall of its 'Berlin Wall'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  35. ^ "Gifts in Celebration of the Museum's Anniversary". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  36. ^ Bowditch, Alexandra (7 February 2020). "The Neuberger Museum of Art Explores Pier Paolo Pasolini's Range of Work and Influence". Hyperallergic.
  37. ^ "David Hockney: Drawing from Life - Exhibition". www.npg.org.uk.
  38. ^ "David Hockney: Drawing from Life". The Morgan Library & Museum. 30 January 2020.
  39. ^ "Exhibition Spanning Gerhard Richter's Prolific Six Decade Career to Open at the Met Breuer | the Metropolitan Museum of Art".
  40. ^ "Kara Walker Spotlights Barack Obama in Allegorical Works on Paper". HYPEBEAST. 17 March 2020.
  41. ^ "Rare and extraordinary art from Japan's Edo period on show at Auckland Art Gallery". Auckland Art Gallery.
  42. ^ "Louise Nevelson James Little | September 8 - October 31, 2020 - Overview".
  43. ^ "Kim Dingle, Restaurant Mandalas at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York, USA on 8 Sep–17 Oct 2020". ocula.com. 4 January 2021.
  44. ^ "Betye Saar: Call and Response". The Morgan Library & Museum. 29 January 2020.
  45. ^ "Cecily Brown". Blenheim Art Foundation.
  46. ^ "Friends and friends of friends at Schlossmuseum in Linz, Austria".
  47. ^ "Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey". The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
  48. ^ Farago, Jason (4 February 2021). "In Frank Stella's Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution". The New York Times.
  49. ^ "Turner's Modern World".
  50. ^ "Church & Rothko - Exhibitions - Mnuchin Gallery". www.mnuchingallery.com.
  51. ^ "Writing the Future". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  52. ^ "Pictures, Revisited". The Met.
  53. ^ "Infamous". Fotografiska New York.
  54. ^ "Exhibition | Julio Le Parc, 'Color and Colors' at Perrotin, New York, USA". ocula.com. 1 October 2021.
  55. ^ "Color and Colors". leaflet.perrotin.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  56. ^ "SAM GILLIAM / Existed Existing • XIBT Contemporary Art Magazine". 13 November 2020.
  57. ^ "Salman Toor: How Will I Know".
  58. ^ a b "The Motorcycle". Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art.
  59. ^ "Edvard Munch exhibited in London with contemporary artist Tracey Emin". Oslo: Munchmuseet. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  60. ^ "A Romantic Duel: Delacroix's fascination for the Giaour by Lord Byron". Le Louvre. 17 March 2021.
  61. ^ "A Romantic Duel, Delacroix's Fascination for "The Giaour" by Lord Byron - Musée Delacroix". www.musee-delacroix.fr.
  62. ^ "MUSEUM POWER - National Museum in Krakow". mnk.pl.
  63. ^ "Marcus Rashford thanks artist for Withington mural". BBC. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  64. ^ "The Hudson Valley's Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge is getting an artsy makeover". 6sqft. 26 July 2023.
  65. ^ "Aachoo!! A Sneezing Pensioner Knocks Down a Row of Houses in New Banksy Work in Bristol". 10 December 2020.
  66. ^ "Emma Berger's Mural of George Floyd Sparked a Massive Community Art Project Downtown". Willamette Week. 2 September 2020.
  67. ^ "Central Park unveils statue of women's rights pioneers — its first statue of real-life women". www.cbsnews.com. 26 August 2020.
  68. ^ Paskett, Zoe (6 August 2020). "I Saw The World End: Imperial War Museum unveils new installation commemorating Hiroshima bomb". GoLondon. London: Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  69. ^ Solomon, Tessa (12 October 2020). "#MeToo Medusa Sculpture Met with Controversy Ahead of Unveiling in New York".
  70. ^ "The Artist Behind a (Very Questionable) Nude Public Statue of Medusa as a Feminist Avenger Defends His Work". artnet News. 13 October 2020.
  71. ^ Halle, Howard (28 May 2020). "This giant new NYC mural is a tribute to the city's healthcare workers". Time Out New York.
  72. ^ "Desert X installs 14 site-specific works in Saudi Arabian desert". Dezeen. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  73. ^ "The Complicated Story Behind Jasper Johns's Dispute with a Cameroonian Teen over a Drawing of a Knee (It Has a Happy Ending)". October 2021.
  74. ^ "Slice, Jasper Johns | Matthew Marks Gallery".
  75. ^ Musser, Amber Jamilla (5 June 2020). "Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings". The Brooklyn Rail.
  76. ^ Halle, Howard (6 March 2020). "See the new outdoor art coming to the High Line in April". Time Out New York.
  77. ^ "MTA - Arts & Design | LIRR Permanent Art".
  78. ^ "Artist erects huge 'thank you' signs outside Staten Island hospitals battling coronavirus outbreak". silive. 23 March 2020.
  79. ^ "Rencontre avec Charles Pétillon". 19 April 2019.
  80. ^ Brown, Mark (5 August 2020). "Sculptor's black 'everywoman' erected on public art walk in London". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  81. ^ "Artist creates paintings from news stories chronicling Covid-19 crisis". The Guardian. 20 May 2020.
  82. ^ ""The Rotting Apple" by The Rebel Bear in Brooklyn, New York". StreetArtNews. 23 March 2020.
  83. ^ "Reflections on a Bridge: a Conversation | ArtsWestchester". 26 June 2020.
  84. ^ "This Ethereal Installation is Transforming LaGuardia". Architectural Digest. 3 July 2020.
  85. ^ "teamLab: Resonating Life in the Acorn Forest, Saitama | teamLab". teamLab: Resonating Life in the Acorn Forest, Saitama | teamLab.
  86. ^ "The Current Keeps on Moving | ArtsWestchester". 28 May 2020.
  87. ^ Lynch, Scott (31 August 2020). "Photos: Héctor Zamora's Beautiful Rooftop Wall Is The Highlight Of The Met's Grand Reopening". Gothamist.
  88. ^ "BBC Two - Keith Haring: Street Art Boy". BBC.
  89. ^ "Review: 'Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art,' a fascinating $80 million con". Los Angeles Times. 23 February 2021.
  90. ^ "The Oracle in the CARDS: Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Conner, and Michael McClure | Essays | Shuffle". shuffle.rauschenbergfoundation.org.
  91. ^ "The Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco". 2 September 2016.
  92. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (15 May 2020). "Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr dies aged 81". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  93. ^ Sanderson, Bill (26 June 2020). "Milton Glaser, designer of iconic 'I ♥ NY' logo, dies at age 91". nydailynews.com.
  94. ^ "Zemřel emeritní rektor a dlouholetý pedagog AVU, doc. Jiří Tomáš Kotalík | AVU". www.avu.cz. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  95. ^ "Frank Popper (1918–2020)". www.artforum.com. 13 July 2020.
  96. ^ "Bamberg trauert um den Pinselartisten: Ralf Metzenmacher ist tot". Frankische Nacht (in German). 4 August 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  97. ^ "Cartoonist Uli Stein ist tot". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 4 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.