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HOW IT WORKS
2006 in art
Summary
The year
2006 in
art
involves various significant events.
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(
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)
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Events
edit
Rembrandt 400
– Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of
Rembrandt
.
[1]
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
.
[2]
31 August
– Stolen
Edvard Munch
paintings
The Scream
and
Madonna
are recovered in a police raid in
Oslo, Norway
.
[3]
17 November
– The
Metropolitan Borough of Bury
in the north of
England
sells its
L. S. Lowry
painting
A River Bank
[4]
(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.
[5]
Awards
edit
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"
[6]
Turner Prize
–
Tomma Abts
Wynne prize
–
John Beard
,
The Gap
Films
edit
Art School Confidential
Factory Girl
Goya's Ghosts
Klimt
Exhibitions
edit
The Masterpieces
Rijksmuseum
,
Amsterdam
, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
All the Rembrandts
, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
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
edit
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 Archived 29 December 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006 Archived 29 December 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
Anish Kapoor
–
Cloud Gate
aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at
AT&T Plaza
in
Millennium Park
in
Chicago
,
Illinois
[7]
Mel Katz –
Daddy Long Legs
(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Gopal Swami Khetanchi
Bani-Thani
Devashree
Frank Meisler
–
Kindertransport – The Arrival
(sculpture, London)
Asylum NYC
[8]
Lovejoy Columns
(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Statue of James Meredith
Deaths
edit
January to March
edit
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
edit
5 April
–
Allan Kaprow
, American painter,
assemblagist
and art theorist (b.
1927
)
15 April
–
Davidee Itulu
, Inuit 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
edit
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
)
References
edit
^
"Program of events". Rembrandt 400 Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 October 2005
. Retrieved
17 September
2005
.
^
Riding, Alan (8 July 2006). "Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art".
The New York Times
. Retrieved
27 June
2011
.
^
"Munch paintings recovered".
Aftenposten
. 31 August 2006. Archived from the original on 19 February 2008
. Retrieved
22 December
2007
.
^
Archived 2015-10-09 at the
Wayback Machine
^
"Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m".
BBC News
. 17 November 2006
. Retrieved
22 July
2011
.
^
"
'Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums".
Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
. Retrieved
28 November
2018
.
^
Kennedy, Randy (20 August 2006). "A Most Public Artist Polishes a New York Image".
The New York Times
.
^
"We confined artists in an NYC detention center to spark a debate about US immigration". 13 April 2020.