14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum..
25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened.
September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.
Charles, Prince of Wales - Watercolours.
Eric Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble
Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.
May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company
Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor
Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Arauz
Chain Reaction (sculpture, Santa Monica, California) – Paul Conrad
Field (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony Gormley
Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst
Capitalism (sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry Kirkland
Guardians of the Gate (bronze, San Francisco) – Miles Metzger
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (installation) – Cornelia Parker
Self (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc Quinn
Host Analog (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) – Buster Simpson
Cascade Charley (fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall
Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist.
3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b. 1898).
11 January – Charles Mozley, British artist and art teacher (b. 1914).
7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b. 1927).
13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900).
15 March – Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter (b. 1928).
29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928).
10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902).
16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915).
3 August – Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b. 1922).
30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925).
5 September - Alexander Pushnin, Russian painter and art educator (b. 1921).
14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910).
24 September – Dr. Seuss, American illustrator (b. 1904).
27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920).
11 November – Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist (b. 1915).
18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b. 1904).
21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter (b. 1904).
9 December – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927).
10 December – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).
12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter (b. 1909).
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