2006 In Art

The year 2006 in art involved various significant events.

Events

*Rembrandt 400 – Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.
*1 January – Resale Rights Directive in the European Union, providing a ''Droit de suite'' for artists, is implemented (in the United Kingdom by th
Artist's Resale Right Regulations
(February 13)).
*1 July – Mudam museum of modern art in Luxembourg (city), designed by I. M. Pei, is opened by Grand Duke Jean.
*31 August – Stolen Edvard Munch paintings ''The Scream'' and ''Madonna'' are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.
* 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in the north of England sells its L. S. Lowry painting
A River Bank
' (1947; bought in 1951 for £150) for £1.25 million at a Christie's auction to a private buyer to help fund a £10 million budget deficit.

Awards

*Archibald Prize – Marcus Wills, ''The Paul Juraszek Monolith''
*Artes Mundi Prize – Eija-Liisa Ahtila
*Beck's Futures – Matt Stokes, ''Long After Tonight''
*Hugo Boss Prize – Tacita Dean
*Caldecott Medal – Chris Raschka, ''The Hello, Goodbye Window''
*John Moores Painting Prize – Martin Greenland for "Before Vermeer's Clouds"
*Turner Prize – Tomma Abts
*Wynne prize – John Beard, ''The Gap''

Films

*Art School Confidential
* Factory Girl
*Goya's Ghosts
*Klimt

Exhibitions

*''The Masterpieces'' Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
*''All the Rembrandts'', Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
*''Frank Stella 1958'', 4 February - 7 May at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts then traveled to the Wexner Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from September 1 – December 31.
*''Rembrandt – Caravaggio'' Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, 24 Feb – 18 June 2006
*''A summer with Rembrandt'' Mauritshuis, The Hague, 26 Jun – 18 September 2006
*''Rembrandt, the Etcher'' The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 8 Jul – 3 September 2006
*''Rodin'' (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 September 2006 – 1 Jan 2007)
*''Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters'' (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November–December)
* Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 February 2006 (toured throughout UK)
* "Barely Legal" (Banksy)

Works

* Magdalena Abakanowicz – Agora, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
* Gary Breeze – Bali Bombings Memorial, London
* Ed Carpenter – '' Tecotosh'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Brian Goldbloom – '' Festival Lanterns'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Dan Graham – '' For Gordon Bunshaft'' (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
* David Hockney
**
Woldgate Woods, March 30 - April 21 2006
''
**
Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006
''
* Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois
* Mel Katz – ''Daddy Long Legs'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Gopal Swami Khetanchi
** ''Bani-Thani''
** ''Devashree''
* Frank Meisler – '' Kindertransport – The Arrival'' (sculpture, London)
* ''Asylum NYC''
* ''Lovejoy Columns'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Statue of James Meredith

Deaths

January to March

*1 January – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (b.1921)
*8 January – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.1918)
*14 January – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.1939)
*29 January – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (b.1932)
*15 February – Joash Woodrow, English artist (b.1927)
*23 February – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.1920)
*4 March
** David Rose, American animator (b.1910)
**Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (b.1929)
*7 March - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (b.1913)
*9 March – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (b.1919)
*25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.1950)
*27 March – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.1925)
* 28 March – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.1928)

April to June

*5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927)
*15 April – Davidee Itulu, Inuk artist (b. 1929)
*23 April – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (b.1936)
*3 May – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (b.1921)
*8 May – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b.1938)
*9 May – Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (b.1924)
*27 May – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928)

July to December

*8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1944)
*15 July – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.1905)
*28 July – Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.1944)
*1 August
**Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b.1965)
**Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b.1924)
*4 August – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.1958)
*20 August – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1911)
* 26 August – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.1913)
*1 September – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.1918)
*17 October – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.1940)
* 25;October -- Emilio Vedova, Italian painter (b. 1919)
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*26 November – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b.1943)
*6 December – Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (b.1927)
*16 December – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.1937)
*18 December – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.1905)

References

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