The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works. Events April - The Museo Alameda opens in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A 10 June – 21 November – 52nd Venice Biennale. October - Execution by Yue Minjun sells at Sotheby's in London for £2.9 million pounds (US $5.9 million - euro 4.2 million) making it most expensive artwork ever sold by a Chinese contemporary artist. 18 October – In New York City, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits. 22 October – In Amersfoort (Netherlands) a fire at the Armando museum destroys 63 paintings from the permanent and loan collections. 2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters". 14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector. 20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. It is recovered about three weeks later. Exhibitions 23 January - 13 May - "Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City 10 May–28 July - “Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas” at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York City 14 June-16 September - National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007" 23 June until 16 September - Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico September-December - Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007 Awards Archibald Prize – John Beard, Portrait of Janet Laurence Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Caldecott Medal – David Wiesner, Flotsam Turner Prize – Mark Wallinger, State Britain Venice Biennale – (June 10 - November 21) Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement:Malick Sidibé (Mali) Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Andreas Fogarasi (Hungary) Wynne prize – Philip Wolfhagen, Winter Nocturne IV Works Sanford Biggers - Blossom Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas) Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta) Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt) David