In London, iconic pieces of pop-art belonging to 60s playboy Gunter Sachs, the former husband of actress Brigitte Bardot, went on display. This painting of Bardot by pop-artist Andy Warhol is perhaps one of the most iconic images of the French actress.
May was an important month for South American art with two major exhibitions - in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. In Argentina, works by the Latin world’s most influential artists, plus pieces by recent fine art graduates, were on show at ArteBA. Mexico City was given a colorful makeover with the help of a group of international artists using spray cans.
In Switzerland, the world’s premier international art show for modern and contemporary works, Art Basel, began in June. It featured pieces from nearly 300 leading galleries around the globe.
Over in Israel, an artist drew inspiration from an unlikely source. Tsunamis, nuclear explosions and other disasters formed the basis of Eyal Gever’s 3D art.
And over in the US, an art exhibition was making a splash...literally. Austrian photographer Andreas Franke plunged to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to combine his passion for diving and photography with a deep sea exhibition on a former US Air Force missile tracking ship.
At the end of September, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman was celebrated with a major retrospective of his powerful Holocaust cartoons in Cologne, Germany. Spiegelman’s "Maus" series portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. But the show also contained the impressive series, "In the shadow of no towers", which reflects on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Over in London, the Tate Gallery assembled a major collection of British pre-Raphaelite artists, including works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. Native American art pieces such as surreal dance masks were also causing a stir with rare works never before exhibited in the UK.
London finished a busy month with some high-tech art. At the Kinetica Museum, science and art created eye-catching and interactive robot flowers, which respond to light and dark just like the real things.
On the other side of the world, an exhibition of a different kind was illuminating Australia. Inspired by Japan’s nuclear disaster, two Sydney-based artists created pieces using radioactive materials.
In France, a major retrospective of the work of Salvador Dali attempted to answer the question: was the Spanish surrealist a genius, or just a flamboyant show-off? The exciting exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris reconciled for the first time the last shunned decades of Dali’s life - where he was accused of money-making self-publicity - with his earlier, respected Surrealist period.
Also in France, the world famous Louvre Museum opened a new wing in Lens, an impoverished former mining town in northern France. Costing nearly 200 million US dollars, the museum’s curators hope to bring world class exhibits to the locals as well as re-energize the area.
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