2006 in art

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]
• 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

• 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

• 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. ^{[7] [8]}
• 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

See also: Category:2006 paintings and Category:2006 sculptures

• 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 ^[9]
• Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Gopal Swami Khetanchi
  • Bani-Thani
  • Devashree
• Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)\
• Jack Whitten - 9.11.01 (completed)' ^[10]
• Asylum NYC ^[11]
• 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)

References

1. "Program of events". Rembrandt 400 Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 October 2005. Retrieved 17 September 2005.
2. Riding, Alan (8 July 2006). "Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art". The New York Times . Retrieved 27 June 2011.
3. "Munch paintings recovered". Aftenposten. 31 August 2006. Archived from the original on 19 February 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
4. Archived 2015-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m". BBC News . 17 November 2006. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
6. "'Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
7. "Frank Stella 1958". 5 March 2006.
8. "Exhibition Focuses on Frank Stella's 1958 Paintings | Wexner Center for the Arts". 13 September 2006.
9. Kennedy, Randy (20 August 2006). "A Most Public Artist Polishes a New York Image". The New York Times.
10. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jack-whittens-9-11-01-moma-2634165
11. "We confined artists in an NYC detention center to spark a debate about US immigration". 13 April 2020.