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Events
- January 21 - The Spire of Dublin is completed.
- May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
- November - Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.
Full date unknown
- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art.
Exhibitions
- Jim Sanborn, Critical Assembly, Corcoran School of Art
- Patti Smith, Strange Messenger, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
Awards
- Archibald Prize - Geoffrey Dyer, a portrait of Richard Flanagan
- Beck's Futures - Rosalind Nashashibi
- Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Susan Rothenberg
- Turner Prize - Grayson Perry
- Wynne Prize - Tim Kyle, Seated Figure
Works
- Tony Cragg - Stainless Steel Pillar
Deaths
January to March
- 20 January - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903).
- 21 January - Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913).
- 27 January - Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915).
- 2 February - Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914).
- 10 February - Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910).
- 14 March - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945).
April to June
- 9 April - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908).
- 16 April - Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909).
- 23 April - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910).
- 13 May - Jef Friboulet, French painter and sculptor (b.1919).
- 29 May - Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930).
- 7 June - Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920).
July to September
- 15 August - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946).
- 21 August - Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963).
- 29 August - Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919).
- 1 September - Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915).
October to December
- 3 October - William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907).
- 16 October - Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919).
- 9 November - Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925).
- 15 December - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923).
- 17 December - Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928).
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