CNN —Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy.
Here are 13 of the controversies that entertained, shook and shaped the art world in 2024:One person’s trash…"All the good times we spent together,” by French artist Alexandre Lavet.
Curators at Palazzo Fava in Italy, however, were somewhat less understanding toward the man who shattered a porcelain sculpture by dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
Philbrick’s $86-million scheme, the largest art fraud in American history, saw him fake documents, conceal ownership interests and invent a fictional art collector as he collateralized and resold shares in blue-chip contemporary art.
Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty ImagesA German museum worker was fired after hanging his own art on the gallery’s walls.
Persons:
Ad Reinhardt, ”, Alexandre Lavet, Alexandre Lavet’s “, they’d, Mona Lisa ”, David Cantiniaux, Johannes Vermeer’s, Vincent van, Maurizio Cattelan’s, ” —, —, Justin Sun, Sun, Akutagawa, Rie Kudan, ChatGPT, Miles, he’d, Nature, Ai Weiwei, Yue Minjun —, Frances King, ” King, King Charles III, Jonathan Yeo, Aaron Chown, Queen Elizabeth II’s, King Charles III’s, Richard Morris, Jonathan Yeo’s, “, Catherine , Princess, Alastair Sooke, Hannah Uzor, Anto Brennan, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Lisa Schiff, Udo Salters, Patrick McMullan, Schiff, ” Schiff, Inigo Philbrick, Kirsha, Jesse Hunniford, Picassos ”, Kaechele, Hannes Magerstaedt, Gao Zhen, Gao Qiang, Shiho, Gao, Mao Zedong, China’s, queasy London's, Peter Moulton, Eline Arbo, Les, Nobel, Annie Ernaux, Almeida, Camille Pissarro, Susana Vera, Camille Pissarro’s “, Camille Pissarro’s “ Rue Saint Honore, Claude Monet’s
Organizations:
CNN, LAM Museum, Getty, Magna Carta, Asahi Shimbun, Bononiae Press, Reuters, Hecht Museum, Art, Ruthin School, Tatler, British, Daily Telegraph, US Department of Justice, Lounge, Museum, New York Times, Alamy, Staff, Almeida Theatre, Thyssen, Jewish, Organization, Camille Pissarro’s “ Rue Saint, US
Locations:
American, French, LAM, Netherlands, AFP, Belgian, British, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Haifa, Italy, Wales, Ruthin, Northern Ireland, New York City, Manhattan, Tasmania, Australia, —, Munich, Germany, China, Beijing, Hebei province’s Sanhe, Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Washington, Louisiana