February – Opening of the New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
13 February – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
11 May – Official opening of the Tate Modern in London.
12 October – Official opening of The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England (designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold).
Constantine Andreou receives the Légion d'honneur.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, London
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Bill Bowerman (sculpture), Eugene, Oregon
Constellation (sculpture series), Portland, Oregon
Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell
Eduardo Chillida – Berlin (sculpture)
Leo Lankinen (posthumous) – Cross of Sorrow (memorial in Russian Karelia)
Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
Betty Spindler – Hot Dog (ceramic sculpture; Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
Bill Woodrow – Regardless of History, for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
Makoto Yukimura – Planetes
Archibald Prize – Adam Cullen, Portrait of David Wenham
Beck's Futures – Roderick Buchanan
Hugo Boss Prize- Marjetica Potrč
Turner Prize – Wolfgang Tillmans
17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914)
19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928)
26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917)
31 March – Gisèle Freund, German-born French photographer (b. 1908)
15 April – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist (b. 1909)
26 April – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (b. 1936)
8 May – Stanley Boxer, American painter (b. 1926)
3 June – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker and graphic artist (b. 1922)
9 June – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
10 July – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer (b. 1903)
17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b. 1901)
19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b. 1917)
3 December – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist (b. 1914)
4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b. 1933)
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