1996 in art

Events from the year 1996 in art.

Events

*8 January – Shortly after publication of the Italian edition of his book ''The Art Forger's Handbook'', English-born art forger Eric Hebborn is found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument; he dies in hospital on 11 January.
*15 March – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund, opens.
*November – Museum für Gegenwart (contemporary art museum) in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, converted by Josef Paul Kleihues, opens.
* Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow opens.
*Museum Tinguely in Basel, designed by Mario Botta, opens.
*For an exhibition at the de Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam, Maurizio Cattelan steals the entire contents of another artist's show from a nearby gallery with the idea of passing it off as his own work, ''Another Fucking Readymade'', until the police insist he return the items on threat of arrest.

Awards

*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait ''as Diana of Erskineville''
* Jan Amos Comenius Medal (UNESCO) – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children
* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney
*Turner Prize – Douglas Gordon
*Wynne Prize – William Robinson, ''Creation landscape – earth and sea''

Exhibitions

*British Art Show 5 – various venues in Manchester
*''Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970–1995'' – travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
*Vermeer – nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Works

*Stephen Antonakos – ''The Room Chapel'' (mixed media sculpture)
*George Beasley – Five Points Monument (Atlanta)
*Robert Calvo – '' Ascension'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*Maurizio Cattelan – ''Bidibidobidiboo'' (sculpture)
*Angela Conner – '' Rising Universe'' (water sculpture)
*Paul DiPasquale – The Arthur Ashe Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia
*Raymond Kaskey – '' Gateway of Dreams'' (Atlanta)
*David LaChapelle – "Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow"
*Roy Lichtenstein – ''Brushstrokes'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*Liza Lou – ''Kitchen's (completed)
*Ron Mueck – ''Big Baby'', ''Mongrel'' and ''Pinocchio'' (sculptures
* Alexander Stoddart – ''Ossian: in memoriam James Macpherson 1736–96'' (bronze head)

Films

*Basquiat

Deaths

January to June

*3 January – Terence Cuneo, English railway and military painter (b. 1907).
*6 January – Duane Hanson, American sculptor (b. 1925).
*9 January – Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (b. 1957).
*11 January – Eric Hebborn, English-born art forger (b. 1934).
*11 February – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (b. 1902).
*18 January – Leonor Fini, Argentine-born surrealist painter (b. 1908).
*28 January – Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (b. 1914).
*20 February – Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (b. 1891).
*5 March – Joshua Compston, British gallerist (b. 1970).
*15 March – Helen Chadwick, British artist (b. 1953).
*14 April – Mervyn Levy, Welsh-born art critic and artist (b. 1914).
*25 April – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (b. 1920).
*7 May – William Copley, American artist (b. 1919).
*10 June – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b. 1906).

July to December

*17 July - Rico Puhlmann, German photographer (b. 1934).
*28 July – Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (b. 1908).
*27 August – Abram Games, English poster artist (b. 1914).
*24 October – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (b. 1948).
*22 November – Edmund Teske, American photographer (b. 1911).
*26 November – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914).
*29 November – Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (b. 1933).
*3 December – Jean Tabaud, French artist (b. 1914).
*11 December – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (b. 1937).
*16 December – Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (b. 1910).
*25 December – Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (b. 1904).

References

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