Editing 2022 in art (section)

==Events==
* February - Twenty five works by the Ukrainian painter [[Maria Prymachenko]] are believed to have been destroyed by a fire which consumed the [[Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum]] (where they were housed) in [[Ivankiv]], [[Kyiv Oblast]], Ukraine during the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian Invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/arts/design/maria-primachenko-paintings-destroyed-ukraine.html | title=Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say | newspaper=The New York Times | date=28 February 2022 | last1=Stevens | first1=Matt | last2=Bowley | first2=Graham }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://nowthisnews.com/news/ukrainian-culture-and-art-comes-under-attack-in-the-wake-of-russias-invasion | title=Ukrainian Culture and Art Comes Under Attack in the Wake of Russia's Invasion | date=March 2022 }}</ref>
* April 9 - The [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]] opens to the public after a five-year, $105 million overhaul.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-04-07/museum-contemoporary-art-san-diego-niki-de-saint-phalle | title=Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=7 April 2022 }}</ref>
* May - French authorities charge former President of the [[Louvre]], [[Jean-Luc Martinez]] with [[money laundering]] in conjunction with an art trafficking case.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/27/louvre-president-jean-luc-martinez-charged-art-trafficking-abu-dhabi/ |title=Former Louvre president Jean-Luc Martinez charged in Abu Dhabi art trafficking case |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2022-05-27 |accessdate=2022-06-08}}</ref>
*[[May 8]] - The [[Andy Warhol]]  [[silk-screen]] painting [[Shot Marilyns|Sage Blue Shot Marilyn]] (1964) sells at [[Christie's]] in New York City for $195.04  million (with fees) shattering the record  for a price paid at auction for a work by an American artist, besting the previous mark set by [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]]'s 1982 painting ''[[Untitled (1982 Basquiat skull painting)|Untitled]]'' which sold for $110,500,000 in 2017.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/arts/design/warhol-auction-marilyn-monroe.amp.html | title=Warhol's 'Marilyn,' at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist | newspaper=The New York Times | date=10 May 2022 | last1=Pogrebin | first1=Robin }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/09/andy-warhol-marilyn-monroe-portrait-auction | title=Andy Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=10 May 2022 }}</ref> It also became the most expensive 20th century artwork sold in a public sale.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.laprensalatina.com/at-195mn-warhols-marilyn-becomes-most-expensive-20th-century-painting/amp/ | title=At $195mn, Warhol's Marilyn becomes most expensive 20th-century painting - la Prensa Latina Media | date=10 May 2022 }}</ref> The buyer was the American art dealer [[Larry Gagosian]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-10/gagosian-the-winning-bidder-for-warhol-s-195-million-marilyn | title=Who's Gagosian, the Winning Bidder for Warhol's $195 Million 'Marilyn' | newspaper=Bloomberg.com | date=10 May 2022 }}</ref>
*[[May 14]] - An original print of [[Man Ray]]'s ''[[Le Violon d'Ingres]]'' sells  for $12.4 million US (with fees) at [[Christie's]] in New York City making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/man-ray-most-expensive-photograph-auction-record/index.html | title=Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million | website=[[CNN]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-rays-famed-photograph-of-kiki-de-montparnasse-sells-for-record-12-4-m-1234628663/amp/ | title=Man Ray's Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M | date=14 May 2022 }}</ref>
*[[May 31]] - At the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]] a male provocateur initially disguised as an elderly female art-goer in a wheelchair smears the [[bulletproof glass]] on top of the [[Mona Lisa]] by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] with [[cake]]. He later reveals that he believes that he was engaged in some sort of makeshift climate protest. The still unidentified 36 year old man was subsequently placed in psychiatric care.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mona-lisa-cake-climate-change-protest-louvre/ | title=Mona Lisa smeared with cake in apparent climate protest | website=[[CBS News]] | date=31 May 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/mona-lisa-smeared-cake-suspected-climate-protester | title=Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=30 May 2022 }}</ref>
*[[June 23]] - The [[Orlando Museum of Art]] in [[Orlando, Florida]] is raided by the [[FBI]] who seize 25 suspect paintings potentially fraudulently attributed to [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]].  The museum's director, [[Aaron De Groft]] who staged the exhibition of the works at the art institution is fired five days later.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/30/orlando-museum-director-fired-fbi-raid-basquiat/7780681001/ | title=Orlando Museum of Art director fired after FBI seizes 'purported' Basquiat paintings | website=[[USA Today]] }}</ref>
*[[July 4]] - The ''[[Hay Wain]]'' (completed 1821) by the English [[landscape painter]] [[John Constable]] (1776-1837), and regarded as his most famous image, is subjected to two [[Just Stop Oil]] protestors attaching their own modified "apocalyptic vision of the future" version of the painting to the original and gluing themselves to the frame.<ref>{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Helen|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/constable-protesters-national-gallery-suffolk-scottish-b2115445.html|title=Anti-oil protesters attach 'apocalyptic vision' to Constable's Hay Wain|newspaper=The Independent|date=4 July 2022|access-date=4 July 2022}}</ref> The National Gallery later reports that the surface [[varnish]] of the painting and its frame suffered minor damage.<ref>{{cite news|last=Holland|first=Oscar|url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/just-stop-oil-hay-wain-london-climate/index.html|title=Climate protesters glue themselves to 200-year-old masterpiece|website=CNN|date=5 July 2022|access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref>
*[[October 9]] - Two [[Extinction Rebellion]] activists glue themselves to [[Pablo Picasso]]’s ''[[Massacre in Korea]]'' painting at the [[National Gallery of Victoria]] in [[Melbourne]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/09/prized-picasso-unharmed-after-extinction-rebellion-activists-glue-hands-to-painting-in-melbourne | title=Prized Picasso 'unharmed' after Extinction Rebellion activists glue hands to painting in Melbourne | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=9 October 2022 }}</ref>
*October
**On October 14 activists from [[Just Stop Oil]] throw tomato soup onto Vincent van Gogh’s [[Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)|Sunflowers]] at the [[National Gallery in London]] then glue themselves to the wall beneath the painting.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers | title=Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at van Gogh's Sunflowers | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=14 October 2022 }}</ref> Subsequently on October 23 in a second incident, German [[climate action]] activists at the [[Museum Barberini]] in [[Potsdam]] throw [[mashed potatoes]] onto the [[Claude Monet]] painting ''[[Haystacks (Monet series)#1890-1891 |Grainstacks]]'' (1890) and then make similar statements and demands.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/arcna53623 | title=Protesters throw mashed potatoes at Monet worth $110 million | website=[[NBC News]] | date=24 October 2022 }}</ref>
**It is noted that [[Piet Mondrian]]'s ''[[New York City (painting)|New York City&nbsp;I]]'' (1941) has been hung upside down since first being put on public display in 1945.<ref>{{cite news|first=Philip|last=Ottermann|title=Obvious if you look? Mondrian has been upside down for 75 years|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2022-10-29|page=6|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years|accessdate=2022-10-29}}</ref>
*[[November 9]] 
** The [[Paul Allen]] collection is sold off at [[Christie's]] in New York City and shatters all previous records for proceeds from an auction of a singular art collection at more than $1.5 billion US. All funds are to be donated to Allen's philanthropic endeavors. Among the records set for prices for a work by an individual artist were $149.2 million US for ''[[Models (painting)#Les Poseuses|Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)]]'' (1888) by the French [[Pointillist]] [[Georges Seurat]], $138 million US for the painting ''[[Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)|La Montagne Sainte-Victoire]]'' by the French [[Post-Impressionist]] [[Paul Cézanne]] setting a new mark for a price paid for his work at auction,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/paul-cezanne-paul-allen-microsoft-christies-sale-1234646123/ | title=A Cezanne Landscape Owned by Microsoft Billionaire Co-Founder Sells for $138 M | date=10 November 2022 }}</ref> $104.6 million US for ''Birch Forest'' (1903) by the Austrian Symbolist [[Gustav Klimt]] setting an auction record for his work, and $11.5 million US for a 1905 print of a photograph by [[Edward Steichen]], ''[[The Flatiron Building|The Flatiron]]'', a record for the photographer.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/design/paul-allen-auction-christies.html |title=Paul G. Allen's Art at Christie's Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 2022 |access-date=2022-11-10 |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110133220/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/design/paul-allen-auction-christies.html |url-status=live |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/paul-allen-auction-results-klimt-painting-sets-105-million-record |title=A Klimt Sells for $105 Million, Setting a New Auction Record |website=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=10 November 2022 |access-date=2022-11-10|archive-date=2022-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119000533/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/paul-allen-auction-results-klimt-painting-sets-105-million-record |url-status=live }}</ref>
** A seven foot high statue of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] carved from eight tons of [[limestone]] is unveiled at [[York Minster]] cathedral by King [[Charles III]] and [[Queen Camilla]] during an official visit to Yorkshire in [[York]], England.<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/king-charles-unveils-statue-queen-2208268 | title=King Charles Has Unveiled a Larger-Than-Life Statue of Queen Elizabeth II, Carved from Three Tons of Limestone | date=10 November 2022 }}</ref>
*[[December 3]] - Sydney Modern Project a A$344 extension to the [[Art Gallery of NSW]] opens to the public.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/03/the-sydney-modern-project-is-finally-open-has-the-art-gallery-of-nsws-344m-expansion-paid-off | title=The Sydney Modern project is finally open. Has the Art Gallery of NSW's $344m expansion paid off? | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=2 December 2022 }}</ref>