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2002 in art

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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.
  • Awards

  • Archibald Prize – Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
  • Beck's Futures – Toby Paterson
  • Hugo Boss Prize – Pierre Huyghe
  • Turner Prize – Keith Tyson
  • Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain
  • Works

  • Banksy – Balloon Girl (mural, London)
  • Ken Currie – Three Oncologists
  • Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
  • 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)
  • Neo Rauch
  • Hunt (Hatz)
  • Reactionary Situation (Reaktionäre Situation)
  • William Wegman – Dog Bowl (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • 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).
  • 22 August – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b. 1915).
  • 19 October - Guy Krohg, Norwegian painter (b. 1917).
  • 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).
  • References

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