2016 in art

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The year 2016 in art involves various significant events.

Events

• March - The Met Breuer opens in the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in 2016. It is now known as the Met Breuer.

Exhibitions

• January 20 - April 17 - "In the Lion's Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire" at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.
• February 5 - April 27 - Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
• February 18 until May 15 - "O'Keefe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
• February 18 until June 13 - "Munch and Expressionism" at the Neue Galerie in New York City.
• March 2 until June 5 - "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture" at the Frick collection in New York City.
• March 18 - September 4 - "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer in New York City.

Deaths

• January 2 - Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor
• January 6 - Uche Okeke, 83, Nigerian artist
• January 10
  • David Bowie, 69, British singer-songwriter, actor, visual artist and art collector
  • Bård Breivik, 67, Norwegian sculptor
  • Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch born Venezuelan sculptor.
• January 13 - Lois Weisberg, 90, Cultural affairs commissioner of Chicago (1988-2011)
• January 16 - Joannis Avramidis, 93, Georgian-born Austrian sculptor
• January 17
  • Melvin Day, 92, New Zealand artist
  • Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer
• January 25 - Thornton Dial, 87, American artist
• February 11 - Charles Garabedian, 92, Armenian American painter
• February 12 – Sossen Krohg, 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director
• February 16 - Eugenio Carmi, 95. Italian painter and sculptor
• February 18 - Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor
• March 3 - Tome Serafimovski, 80, Macedonian sculptor
• March 4 - Pirro Cuniberti, 92, Italian artist
• March 5
  • Robert Redbird, 76, Native American artist
  • Panayiotis Tetsis, 91, Greek painter
• March 10 - Anita Brookner, 87, British art historian and novelist
• March 11 - Rómulo Macció, 84, Argentine painter
• March 19 - Bob Adelman, 85, American photographer
• March 23 - Arie Smit, 99, Dutch-born Indonesian painter
• March 31 - Zaha Hadid, 65, Iraqi born British architect
• April 1 - André Villers, 85, French photographer
• April 2 - Rick Bartow, 69, Native American artist
• April 3 - Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist
• April 11 - Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patroness
• April 15
  • A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter
  • Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer (death announced on this date)
• April 16 - Richard Smith, 84, British painter
• April 24
  • Inge King, 100, German born Australian sculptor
  • George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist
• April 28 - Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer
• April 30 - Marisol Escobar, 85, French born American sculptor of Venezuelan descent
• May 2
  • Basil Blackshaw, 83-84, Northern Irish artist
  • Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist
• May 4 - Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist "Non violence", (death announced on this date)
• May 8 - Louisa Chase, 65, American painter
• May 10 - François Morellet, 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist
• May 19 - Hugh Honour, 88, British art historian