2002 in art

The year 2002 in art involves 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.
*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.
*22 November – Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in Amherst, Massachusetts.
*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.

Exhibitions

*September 12 until October 22 - "Mike Bidlo: Not Picasso, Not Pollock, Not Warhol at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway.

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"
*Turner Prize – Keith Tyson
*Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, ''Remembering Rain''

Works

*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 York
* Ken Currie – ''Three Oncologists''
*'' Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao'' (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
*Helen Frankenthaler - ''Contentment Island''
*Lucian Freud – Portrait of David Hockney
*Gwen Gillen – ''Mary Tyler Moore'' (statue, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
*Anish Kapoor – ''Marsyas'' (Tate Modern, London)
*Ron Mueck – '' Mask II'' (sculpture)
*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)
* Neo Rauch
**''Hunt'' (''Hatz'')
**'' Reactionary Situation'' (''Reaktionäre Situation'')
* 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

*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).
*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).

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