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Overview of the events of 2006 in art
Overview of the events of 2006 in art
The year 2006 in
art involves various significant events.
Events
Awards
Films
Exhibitions
- 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
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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)
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Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 February 2006 (toured throughout UK)
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"Barely Legal" (Banksy)
Works
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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)
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Dan Graham –
For Gordon Bunshaft (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
-
David Hockney
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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)
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Gopal Swami Khetanchi
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Frank Meisler –
Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)
- Asylum NYC
[8]
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Lovejoy Columns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
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Statue of James Meredith
Deaths
January to March
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1 January –
John Latham, Zambian
conceptual artist (b.
1921)
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8 January –
Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.
1918)
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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)
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23 February –
Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.
1920)
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4 March
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7 March -
Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (b.
1913)
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9 March –
Jean Leymarie, French
art historian (b.
1919)
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25 March –
Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.
1950)
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27 March –
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.
1925)
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28 March –
Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.
1928)
April to June
July to December
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8 July –
Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.
1944)
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15 July –
Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.
1905)
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28 July –
Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.
1944)
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1 August
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4 August –
Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.
1958)
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20 August –
Joe Rosenthal, American
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.
1911)
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26 August –
Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.
1913)
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1 September – Sir
Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.
1918)
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17 October –
Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.
1940)
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25;October --
Emilio Vedova, Italian painter (b.
1919)
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26 November –
Dave Cockrum, American
comic book artist (b.
1943)
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6 December –
Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (b.
1927)
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16 December –
Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.
1937)
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18 December –
Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.
1905)
References