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HOW IT WORKS
2003 in art
Summary
The year
2003 in
art
involves various significant events.
List of years in art
(
table
)
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Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
edit
January 21
– The
Spire of Dublin
is completed.
[1]
May 11
–
Benvenuto Cellini
's
Saliera
is stolen from the
Kunsthistorisches Museum
in Vienna.
June 15
–
November 2
– A record number of seven co-curators is involved in the 50th edition of the
Venice Biennale
, directed by
Francesco Bonami
.
[2]
August 27
–
Leonardo da Vinci
's
Madonna of the Yarnwinder
is stolen from the
Duke of Buccleuch collection
at
Drumlanrig Castle
in Scotland.
[3]
It is recovered in 2007.
November –
Gustav Klimt
's
Landhaus am Attersee
sells for $29,128,000.
December 25
–
Beagle 2
lands on the surface of
Mars
; its calibration target plate is painted by
Damien Hirst
.
date unknown
–
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
in London takes over the
Byam Shaw School of Art
.
Exhibitions
edit
Jim Sanborn
,
Critical Assembly
,
Corcoran School of Art
Patti Smith
,
Strange Messenger
,
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
Awards
edit
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 Biennale
(June 15 - November 2) -
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
edit
Eco-Earth Globe
, Salem, Oregon
Jake and Dinos Chapman
–
Insult to Injury
Tony Cragg
–
Stainless Steel Pillar
Olafur Eliasson
–
The weather project
(installation in Turbine Hall of
Tate Modern
, London)
David Fairbairn –
Self Portrait DF
Cornelia Parker
–
The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached): Subconscious of a Monument
(interventionist sculpture)
Michal Rovner
–
Data Zone
[4]
Jørn Utzon
–
Homage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(tapestry in the
Sydney Opera House
)
Kehinde Wiley
–
Go
Films
edit
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mona Lisa Smile
Sound of Colors
The Floating Landscape
Turn Left, Turn Right
Deaths
edit
January to March
edit
9 January
–
Constantin Kluge
, Russian and French painter (b.
1912
).
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
edit
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
).
25 April
–
Lynn Chadwick
, 88, English sculptor
29 May
–
Pierre Restany
, French
art critic
and cultural philosopher (b.
1930
).
7 June
–
Georges Pichard
, French
comics artist
(b.
1920
).
July to September
edit
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
edit
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
).
4 December
–
David Vaughan
, English psychedelic artist and muralist (b.
1944
).
15 December
–
George Fisher
, American political
cartoonist
(b.
1923
).
17 December
–
Wally Hedrick
, American artist (b.
1928
).
References
edit
^
"Spire cleaners get prime view of city".
Irish Independent
. 5 June 2007. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012
. Retrieved
5 June
2007
.
^
Venice Biennale official website - Recent Years (2001-2011) Archived 2016-06-25 at the
Wayback Machine
. Accessed 26 March 2014
^
Seenan, Gerard (2003-12-29). "Thieves steal priceless art 'for status, not profit'
".
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
2023-08-27
.
^
"artnet.com Magazine features - Vindicated at Venice". Archived from the original on 2020-11-30
. Retrieved
2021-09-17
.