2002 in art

none January 2020 2002 art The year 2002 in art involved 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.https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/04/artsnews.redbox The Guardian Thatcher statue decapitated 12 December 2011 London Michael Michael White (journalist) White 4 July 2002 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.http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2002&wknd=43&p=.htm October 25-27, 2002 Weekend Box Office Mojo Internet Movie Database 11 November 2012 6 October – Adam by Venetian Master Tullio Lombardo, which was the first 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.2014-11-10 'Adam' Sculpture Returns To Metropolitan Museum Of Art After 12-Year Restoration Project - CBS New York https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/adam-sculpture-returns-to-metropolitan-museum-of-art-after-12-year-restoration-project/ 2024-03-15 www.cbsnews.com en-USTULLIO LOMBARDO'S ADAM A Masterpiece Restored - The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2014/tullio-lombardos-adam 2024-03-15 www.metmuseum.org 22 November – Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in Amherst, Massachusetts.teachers.net. Accessed 25 February 2014 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.http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/kwells/files/15%20-%20matisse%20-%20large%20red%20interior%20-%20hh.pdfAugust 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Exhibitions May 30 until August 18 - Robert Longo: Works from the Freud Cycle at the Jewish Museum Berlin in Berlin, Germany.https://www.jmberlin.de/en/robert-longo-works-from-the-freud-drawings Robert Longo: Works from the Freud Cycle September 12 until October 22 - "Mike Bidlo: Not Picasso, Not Pollock, Not Warhol at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway.https://artfacts.net/exhibition/mike-bidlo-not-picasso-not-pollock-not-warhol/28811 Mike Bidlo - Not Picasso, Not Pollock, Not Warhol | Exhibition Awards Archibald Prize – Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged Beck's Futures – Toby Paterson Hugo Boss Prize – Pierre Huyghe John Moores Painting Prize - Peter Davies for "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting"http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/peter_davies.aspx Peter Davies - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Turner Prize – Keith Tyson Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain Works Category:2002 sculptures 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 Yorkhttp://hyperallergic.com/37601/memorial-to-a-marriage-woodlawn-cemetery-patricia-cronin/ From Courbet to the Bronx, the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Names Gets Marriage Memorial 10 October 2011 Ken Currie – Three Oncologists Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao (bronze, Portland, Oregon) Helen Frankenthaler – Contentment Islandhttps://artnewengland.com/helen-frankenthaler-late-works-1990-2003/ Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003 – Art New England 27 February 2021 Lucian Freud Portrait of David Hockney Naked Portrait (Kate Moss) Gwen Gillen – Mary Tyler Moore (statue, Minneapolis, Minnesota)http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/news_20020508mtmunveiling Newshttps://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/01/26/fans-visit-statue-remember-mary-tyler-moore/97102748/ Fans visit statue to remember Mary Tyler Moore 26 January 2017 USA Today 13 July 2018 Anish Kapoor – Marsyas (Tate Modern, London) Ron Mueck – Mask II (sculpture)Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog) Hurlston David 2010 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne etal 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)https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-park/monuments/1969 Bryant Park Monuments - Benito Juarez : NYC Parks www.nycgovparks.org Neo Rauch Hunt (Hatz) Reactionary Situation (Reaktionäre Situation) Ed Ruscha - Tulsa Sluthttps://www.moma.org/collection/works/86628 Edward Ruscha. Tulsa Slut. 2002 | MoMA 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 15 January – Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (b. 1913) 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). 20 October - Andrew Martz, Russian animal sculptor (b. 1924). 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 Category:2000s in art Category:Years of the 21st century in art