2006 in art

none 2006 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.http://www.rembrandt400.com Rembrandt 400 Foundation Program of events 17 September 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20051026012205/http://www.rembrandt400.com/ 26 October 2005 dead 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.Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art Alan Riding https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08pei.html The New York Times 8 July 2006 27 June 2011 31 August – Stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.Munch paintings recovered 31 August 2006 Aftenposten http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1441444.ece 22 December 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080219221013/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1441444.ece 19 February 2008 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in the north of England sells its L. S. Lowry painting A River Bankhttp://www.ls-lowry.com/work/arb47.html A River Bank 1947 22 July 2011 9 October 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151009032823/http://www.ls-lowry.com/work/arb47.html bot: unknown (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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6157204.stm BBC News Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m 17 November 2006 22 July 2011 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"http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/24/prizewinners/martin_greenland.aspx 'Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 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.https://brooklynrail.org/2006/03/art/frank-stella-1958 Frank Stella 1958 5 March 2006 https://wexarts.org/press/exhibition-focuses-frank-stella-s-1958-paintings Exhibition Focuses on Frank Stella's 1958 Paintings | Wexner Center for the Arts 13 September 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 Category:2006 paintings 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20161229225110/http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.02.php 29 December 2016 Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20161229211656/http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.13.php 29 December 2016 Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinoishttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/arts/design/20kenn.html A Most Public Artist Polishes a New York Image The New York Times 20 August 2006 Kennedy Randy Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Gopal Swami Khetanchi Bani-Thani Devashree Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London, England) Jack Whitten – 9.11.01 (completed)'How to Look at Jack Whitten’s Unforgettable Painting ‘9.11.01’ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jack-whittens-9-11-01-moma-2634165 https://web.archive.org/web/20250501012945/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jack-whittens-9-11-01-moma-2634165 2026-09-28 2025-05-01 Asylum NYChttps://www.humanhotel.com/2020/04/13/valeria-featured-host/ We confined artists in an NYC detention center to spark a debate about US immigration 13 April 2020 Wiesław Winkler – Aleksander Kamiński Memorial (sculpture, Warsaw, Poland) 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) 17 August – Werner G. Scharff, German-born American arts patron and fashion designer (b. 1916) 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 November 2019 Category:2000s in art Category:Years of the 21st century in art