2003 In Art

The year 2003 in art involves various significant events.

Events

*January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed.
*May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's ''Saliera'' is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
*June 15-November 2 - A record number of seven co-curators is involved in the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale, directed by Francesco Bonami.
*November – Gustav Klimt's ''Landhaus am Attersee'' sells for $29,128,000.
*December 25 – ''Beagle 2'' lands on the surface of Mars; its calibration target plate is painted by Damien Hirst.
*''date unknown'' - Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art.

Exhibitions

*Jim Sanborn, ''Critical Assembly'', Corcoran School of Art
*Patti Smith, '' Strange Messenger'', The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

Awards

*Archibald Prize – Geoffrey Dyer, ''a portrait of Richard Flanagan''
*Beck's Futures – Rosalind Nashashibi
* Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Susan Rothenberg
*Turner Prize – Grayson Perry
*The Venice Biennale (June 15 - November 2) -
**The Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy) and Carol Rama (Italy)
**The Lion d'or for best artwork in the main exhibition: Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland)
**The Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Sun-Mei Tse (Luxemburg)
*Wynne Prize – Tim Kyle, ''Seated Figure''

Works

* ''Eco-Earth Globe'', Salem, Oregon
*Jake and Dinos Chapman – ''Insult to Injury''
*Tony Cragg – ''Stainless Steel Pillar''
*Olafur Eliasson – ''The weather project'' (installation in Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London)
*Cornelia Parker – '' The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached): Subconscious of a Monument'' (interventionist sculpture)
*Michal Rovner - "Data Zone"
*Jørn Utzon - ''Homage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach'' (tapestry in the Sydney Opera House)
*Kehinde Wiley - '' Go''
*David Fairbairn - "Self Portrait DF"

Deaths

January to March

*9 January – Constantin Kluge, Russian and French painter (b.1912)
*20 January – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903).
*21 January – Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913).
*27 January – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915).
* 2 February – Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914).
*10 February – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910).
*14 March – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945).

April to June

*9 April – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908).
*16 April – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909).
* 23 April – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910).
*25 April – Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor
*29 May – Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930).
*7 June – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920).

July to September

*11 July - Dorothy Miller, 99, American curator (b.1904).
* 15 August – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946).
*21 August – Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963).
*29 August – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919).
* 1 September – Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915).

October to December

* 3 October – William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907).
*16 October – Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919).
*9 November – Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925).
*4 December – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (b. 1944).
* 15 December – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923).
*17 December – Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928).

References

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