Quiz Category: Latest Arts Trivia. 10 Beautiful Questions

Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night inspired a 2,316 three-dimensional piece Lego set released on Lego's website on June 1, 2022, in cooperation with New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Andy Warhol's silkscreen image, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, was sold for $195m in auction house Christie's in New York on May 9, 2022. The work was created in 1964, along with red, orange, blue, and turquoise versions. It gained the highest price for any American work of art at auction and became the most expensive painting of the 20th century.

Whose records did Warhol's Blue Sage Marlyn break?

So far, the most costly 20th-century painting sold at auction was Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O') by Picasso, which fetched $179m in May 2015 at Christie's New York. The previous most expensive American art piece ever sold at auction was Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1981 skull painting - which sold for an astounding $110.4 million in 2017.

Who shot Marilyn?

Performance artist Dorothy Podber, who saw the paintings stacked against one another in Warhol's studio, pierced four pieces in the Shot Marilyns series with a single bullet. The fifth painting with the turquoise background was not in the stack and escaped damage.

When first arriving in New York City in the '80s, David LaChapelle became Andy Warhol's assistant, leading to him taking his mentor's final portrait in 1987. The photo is one of 150 works spanning the entirety of LaChapelle's career put on display in David LaChapelle: Make Believe - the first-ever solo show on New York City's six-story branch of Stockholm's Fotografiska museum.

New York's The Whitney's full name is the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Biennial in New York runs from Apr. 6 to Sept. 5, 2022, and features 63 artists and collectives.

American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, is considered the "Mother of American modernism."

Did a tarantula destroy an O'Keefe?

A water-damaged painting, likely caused by a tarantula tunneling through the roof at the artist's 18th-century  home in Abiquiú, New Mexico, is displayed at the Santa Fe Georgia O'Keeffe Museum after conservators spent 1,250 hours and $145,000 restoring it. The piece, titled "Spring," is displayed at the museum through Oct. 10, 2022, before traveling to the San Diego Museum of Art in 2023.

Damien Hirst is considered the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with a net worth of $700 million in 2021.

What is Damien Hirst's The Currency?

The Currency is the first NFT collection by Damien Hirst of 10,000 NFTs, corresponding to 10,000 unique physical artworks stored in a secure vault in the UK. Hirst produced the project with HENI, an art services business. HENI sold each image in the series for the price of $2,000. They grossed about $18 million from the initial sale and, according to HENI, are collecting a further 5 percent of the proceeds from NFT resales.

The Blue Boy is English portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough's most famous oil painting. Along with Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough is considered one of the most influential British artists of the second half of the 18th century.

Where is The Blue Boy exhibited in 2022?

The Blue Boy has been on display at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, since 1922. One hundred years after it was bought and shipped to the US, the landmark English painting was loaned back to London's National Gallery for an exhibition opened on Jan. 25, 2022. The work is now on display in London alongside two other Gainsborough paintings.

“Baptism of Christ,” by Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1605), was moved out of storage on March 15, 2022, after over a decade of renovations of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens its doors in September.

The Bolshoi Theatre is located in Moscow, Russia.

Did the Bolshoi Theatre’s music director resign over the war in Ukraine?

The Bolshoi Theatre’s music director and principal conductor, Tugan Sokhiev, announced his resignation on March 6, 2022. He has also left his equivalent position at France’s Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, saying he decided to resign after “being forced to face the impossible option of choosing between my beloved Russian and beloved French musicians.” Sokhiev did not say whether he backs Russia’s actions in Ukraine but stated, “I have never supported, and I will always be against any conflicts in any shape and form.”

Pictured is The Basket of Flowers Egg - one of 57 surviving jeweled eggs created by the jewelry firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, during the rule of the Russian Empire. Emperor Nicholas II gave the Basket of Flowers Egg to his wife, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, on Easter Day, Apr. 1, 1901. British Consort Queen Mary acquired the Egg in 1933.

Was The Basket of Flowers Egg stolen?

Oh no. But a replica of the famed Fabergé egg was one of £150,000 worth of items taken during an overnight raid on Netflix's The Crown production site near Doncaster in Feb. 2022. The multi-award-winning show is currently shooting its fifth season and will air at the end of 2022.