2003 in art

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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.

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• 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

-The Venice Biennial-

• The Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy) and Carol Rama (Italy)
• The Lion d'or for best artwork in the main exhibition: Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland)
• The Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Sun-Mei Tse (Luxemburg)

• 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

• 11 July - Dorothy Miller, 99, American curator (b.1904).
• 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).