I am a dreamer who dreams of a world full of
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Events
February 12 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen, in Oslo (recovered on May 7).
April 8 – Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes: Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel (Vatican City) is reopened to the public after 10 years of restoration.
November 26 – The Ministry of Culture and Art in Poland orders exhumation of the presumed grave of absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remaining bones prove that the body belongs to an unknown woman.
Awards
Archibald Prize: Francis Giacco – Homage to John Reichard
Turner Prize: Antony Gormley
Works
Jake and Dinos Chapman – Great Deeds Against the Dead (sculpture)
Martin Creed – Work No 88: A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball
Neil Estern – Fiorello H. La Guardia (sculpture, New York City)
Helen Frankenthaler – All About Blue
Damien Hirst – Away from the Flock
K Foundation - K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (performance art, Jura, Scotland)
Lee Kelly – Angkor I (sculpture, Lake Oswego, Oregon)
Don Merkt – Driver's Seat (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Odd Nerdrum – Woman Kills Injured Man
Luis Royo – The Seeds of Nothing
Rob Turner – Sutton Heritage Mosaic
Bill Woodrow – In Awe of the Pawnbroker
Births
July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American art and poetry prodigy.
January to June
February 6 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (b. 1917).
February 11 – Max Leognany, French artist (b. 1913).
February 12 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (b. 1928).
March 22 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (b. 1899).
April 1 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912).
April 14 – Jean Joyet, French artist (b. 1919).
May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909).
May 12 – Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (b. 1903).
July to September
July 3 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist (b. 1914).
July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897).
August 16 – Henry Geldzahler, American museum curator, (b. 1935)
September – Bruce Ariss, American artist (b. 1911).
November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (b. 1923).
November 20 – Umaña, Colombian artist (b. 1908).
December 31 – Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, model and fashion designer (b. 1961).
