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Overview of the events of 2002 in art
Overview of the events of 2002 in art
The year 2002 in
art involves various significant events.
Events
21 May – Extensions to the
Queen's Gallery at
Buckingham Palace , London, designed by
John Simpson , are opened.
3 July –
Decapitation of a statue of Margaret Thatcher : a man decapitates a statue of former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher on display at the
Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.
[1]
10 July – At a
Sotheby's auction,
Peter Paul Rubens ' painting
The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to
Lord Thomson of Fleet .
13 July –
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art opens in the converted Baltic Flour Mill at
Gateshead in
North East England .
29 August –
Frida , a
biopic starring
Salma Hayek as
Frida Kahlo , receives its world première at the
Venice International Film Festival .
[2]
6 October -
Adam by Venetian Master
Tullio Lombardo , which was the fist life size marble sculpture created since antiquity falls off its display pedestal (which was unable to beat its weight) at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and shatters into many pieces and fragments.
[3]
[4]
22 November –
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in
Amherst , Massachusetts.
[5]
14 December – New building for the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in
Texas , designed by
Tadao Ando , opens to the public.
Full date unknown
A sculpture by
Henri Matisse , Reclining Nude I (Dawn) , is sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture at the time.
[6]
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Magdalena Abakanowicz –
Nierozpoznani ("The Unrecognised Ones", sculpture)
Banksy –
Balloon Girl (mural, London)
Patricia Cronin – "
Memorial to a Marriage " at
Woodlawn Cemetery in
The Bronx, New York
[10]
Ken Currie – Three Oncologists
Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Helen Frankenthaler - Contentment Island
[11]
Lucian Freud – Portrait of
David Hockney
Gwen Gillen – Mary Tyler Moore (statue,
Minneapolis, Minnesota )
[12]
[13]
Anish Kapoor – Marsyas (
Tate Modern , London)
Ron Mueck –
Mask II (sculpture)
[14]
Claes Oldenburg and
Coosje van Bruggen –
Cupid's Span (sculpture, San Francisco)
Moises Cabrera Orozco –
Statue of Benito Juárez (cast in Mexico 2002; installed in
Bryant Park ,
Manhattan , New York City 2004)
[15]
Neo Rauch
Ed Ruscha - Tulsa Slut
[16]
William Wegman –
Dog Bowl (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Olbram Zoubek , Jan Kerel and Zdeněk Holzel – "
Memorial to the Victims of Communism " in
Prague
Deaths
January to June
30 January –
Inge Morath , Austrian photographer (b. 1923)
February –
Víctor Grippo , painter, engraver and sculptor, the father of conceptual art in Argentina (b. 1936)
16 February –
Peter Voulkos , American ceramic sculptor (b. 1924)
12 March –
Jean-Paul Riopelle , Canadian painter and
sculptor (b. 1923)
22 May –
Niki de Saint Phalle , French
sculptor , painter, and film maker (b. 1930).
12 June –
Bill Blass , American fashion designer (b. 1922).
July to December
8 July –
Ward Kimball , American
Academy Award -winning
animator (b. 1914).
13 July –
Yousuf Karsh , Armenian-Canadian photographer (b. 1908).
17 July –
George Rickey , American
kinetic sculptor (b. 1907).
5 August –
Robert Lenkiewicz , English painter (b. 1941).
11 August –
Galen Rowell , American wilderness photographer, in aviation accident (b. 1940).
22 August –
Richard Lippold , American
sculptor (b. 1915).
19 October -
Guy Krohg , Norwegian painter (b. 1917).
18 November –
Bryan Robertson , English curator (b. 1925).
23 November –
Roberto Matta , Chilean painter (b. 1911).
9 December
Ian Hornak , American painter and draughtsman (b. 1944).
Stan Rice , American poet and artist (b. 1942).
26 December –
Herb Ritts , American photographer (b. 1952).
References