May 18 – Sotheby's auctions Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting Untitled created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull, and in doing so the work sets a new record high for any U.S. artist at auction, selling for $110,500,000.[2]
October - A section of marble mosaic flooring from one of the Roman EmperorCaligula's pleasure ships from Lake NemiinLazio is repatriated to Italy after having been rediscovered by happenstance by the author and antiquity restorer Dario del Bufalo to have been serving as a coffee table in the apartment of New York City and husband and wife antique dealers Helen and Nereo Fioratti.[5]
October 7 - The President of the LouvreinParis, Jean-Luc Martinez objects to the work "Domestikator" (2015) by Atelier Van Lieshout an architectural sculpture in which two interlocking buildings appear to be engaged in a sexual act and pulls it from the exhibition Hors Les Murs, (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemperain’s outdoor program of architectural projects, sculptures, performances, and sound pieces that runs concurrently to the fair) held in the Tuileries Garden where it would have been displayed nearby a playground and instead the work is displayed by the Centre Georges Pompidou in the front square outside of that art institution for a simultaneous run.[6][7]
April 3 until June 9 - "Hubert Davis: Scenes of Pennsylvania" at the Ron K. DeLong Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley in Central Valley (catalogue essay by Vincent DiCicco),[18] Pennsylvania in concert with "Hubert Davis: Foreign Lands" (May 16 - June 26) curated by Deborah Rabinsky at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and “Hubert Davis: Costume Design” (May 22 to July 21) at the 514 Gallery in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[19][20][21]
GCC (art collective) (Nanu Al-Hamad, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Aziz Alqatami, Barrak Alzaid, Khalid al Gharaballi, Amal Khalaf, Fatima Al Qadiri, and Monira Al Qadiri) – "Local Police Find Fruit with Spells".[41][42]
Yinka Shonibare – "Wind Sculpture" conceived and designed in 2017 installed by the Public Art Fund on the outside perimeter of Central Park at Grand Army Plaza at East 60th in New York City from March 7, 2018 until October 14, 2018.[54]
