The great art quiz of 2021

The great art quiz of 2021

By Louise Cohen

Published 17 December 2021

Gather round, art lovers – because it’s time for our annual art-related quizzing! Play with the family, test your know-it-all neighbours, or just take the blimmin’ thing right now!

<section><h2><h2><h1>Think you know your art? Take our quiz of the year and see how you measure up...</h1></h2></h2></section><section><h2><h2><span style="font-size:20px;">This year’s Turner Prize represented a first in the award’s 37-year history. What was it?</span></h2></h2></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;"></span>In 2021, David Hockney returned to the RA with an exhibition of spring-time iPad drawings, continuing the theme of a landmark exhibition in 2012. What was the name of that 2012 exhibition? </h3><h3><br /></h3></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">In March, who broke a record for the most expensive NFT ever sold, with a collage of digital images?</span></h3></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">Which artist, whose Abstract Expressionist prints went on show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery this year, famously said of the art-making process: “There are no rules”?</span></h3><h2><strong> </strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">Who is Little Amal?</span> </h3></h3></section><section><h3><h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:20px;">Which artist, who became the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize in 2017, and was awarded a CBE in 2018, was celebrated with a solo exhibition at Tate Modern this year?</span><br /></h3><br /><h2><strong> </strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">An exhibition on Fabergé in London recently opened at the V&A, exploring the work of the famous Russian jewellery house. What, according to Fabergé family lore, is the one stipulation for a Fabergé Egg?</span></h3><h2><strong> </strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:20px;">Kehinde Wiley, who famously painted Barack Obama’s official portrait in 2018, this year reimagined which 18th-century masterpiece?</span></h3><h3><strong><span style="font-size:20px;"> </span></strong></h3></h3></section><section><h3><h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:20px;">The Summer Exhibition is the RA’s annual celebration of contemporary art and architecture. Which artist co-ordinated it in 2021, with a special focus on inclusion?</span><br /></h3><br /><h2><strong> </strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:20px;">To coincide with Cop26, artist Bamber Hawes took an artwork called Clarion on a 306-mile round trip, from Shropshire to Glasgow. What is Clarion?</span><br /></h3><br /></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">Which artist was celebrated this year in a landmark exhibition at a venue named after them?</span></h3><h2><strong> </strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h3><span style="font-size:20px;">Which of these shortlisted cities became 2021’s City of Culture?</span></h3></h3></section><section><h2></h2></section><section><h3></h3></section>
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The great art quiz of 2021

By Louise Cohen

Published 17 December 2021

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Season’s greetings to all Friends, visitors, supporters and followers, and here’s to another year of art! Speaking of which, here’s a taster of all the art to look forward to in 2022…

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