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 the 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, England) Jack Whitten – 9.11.01 (completed)' Asylum NYC Wiesław Winkler – Aleksander Kamiński Memorial (sculpture, Warsaw, Poland) 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)
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)
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