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The year 2015 in art involves various significant events. ==Events== * February - Paul Gauguin's painting ''When Will You Marry?'' sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to Qatar Museums, the highest known price ever paid for any work of art * April - The accused rapist in the Emma Sulkowicz case which inspired the art piece "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" files suit in United States Federal Court in Manhattan against Columbia University, its art department chairman Jon Kessler, and the University president Lee C. Bollinger, saying through his attorneys, that he is the victim of Gender Discrimination and a "witch hunt". * April 2 - Sir Peter Blake's temporary artwork ''Everybody Razzle Dazzle'', Mersey Ferry MV ''Snowdrop'' painted in a variation of dazzle camouflage, enters service on the River Mersey in England. * April 13 - A South African man is charged with vandalising a Johannesburg statue of Mahatma Gandhi by attempting to paint it white. * May 1 - The new Whitney Museum of American Art facility in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, designed by Renzo Piano, opens.〔http://www.newsweek.com/whitney-museums-monumental-new-digs-open-tomorrow-327239〕 *May 11 - One canvas, "Version O", the final painting from a series of fifteen paintings and numerous drawings entitled Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for $179.4 million U.S (with fees) at Christies in New York City; thus, establishing a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. At the same sale "Pointing Man", a work by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti sells for $141.3 million U.S., making it the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction.〔http://www.dw.de/picassos-women-of-algiers-and-giacomettis-pointing-man-set-auction-records/a-18445006〕 *August 21 - Street artist Banksy opens Dismaland, a temporary art project in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, UK. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 in art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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