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The year 1993 in art involved some significant events.
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Events
- 27 May – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected.
Full date unknown
- Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube.
- Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.
- The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.
- A catalogue of Augustan portraits list 148 replicas of Augustus of Primaporta, plus 6 done as cameos. Before 25 BC the earliest known replica of Augustus of Primaporta is made.
Exhibitions
- Kustom Kulture, Laguna Beach Art Museum
- Harold Parker retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery
- Venice Biennale shows several works by Young British Artists including Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Garry Shead - Tom Thompson
- Schock Prize in Visual Arts: Rafael Moneo
- Turner Prize: Rachel Whiteread
- Wolf Prize in Arts: Bruce Nauman
Works
- Peter Doig - Blotter
- Anya Gallaccio - Stroke
Births
Deaths
- 26 January - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b.1912).
- 28 January - Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (b.1940).
- 30 January - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b.1904).
- 19 February - Pietro Pezzati, American painter (b.1902).
- 30 March - Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b.1922).
- 3 May - Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922).
- 30 May - Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1907).
- 6 September - Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (b. 1910).
- 7 December - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (b.1913).
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