2006 in art
Events
    
- Rembrandt 400 – Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.[1]
 - 1 January – Resale Rights Directive in the European Union, providing a Droit de suite for artists, is implemented (in the United Kingdom by the Artist's Resale Right Regulations (February 13)).
 - 1 July – Mudam museum of modern art in Luxembourg (city), designed by I. M. Pei, is opened by Grand Duke Jean.[2]
 - 31 August – Stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.[3]
 - 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in the north of England sells its L. S. Lowry painting A River Bank[4] (1947; bought in 1951 for £150) for £1.25 million at a Christie's auction to a private buyer to help fund a £10 million budget deficit.[5]
 
Awards
    
- Archibald Prize – Marcus Wills, The Paul Juraszek Monolith
 - Artes Mundi Prize – Eija-Liisa Ahtila
 - Beck's Futures – Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight
 - Hugo Boss Prize – Tacita Dean
 - Caldecott Medal – Chris Raschka, The Hello, Goodbye Window
 - John Moores Painting Prize – Martin Greenland for "Before Vermeer's Clouds"[6]
 - Turner Prize – Tomma Abts
 - Wynne prize – John Beard, The Gap
 
Exhibitions
    
- The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
 - All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
 - Rembrandt – Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, 24 Feb – 18 June 2006
 - A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, 26 Jun – 18 September 2006
 - Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 8 Jul – 3 September 2006
 - Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 September 2006 – 1 Jan 2007)
 - Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November–December)
 - Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 February 2006 (toured throughout UK)
 - "Barely Legal" (Banksy)
 
Works
    
- Magdalena Abakanowicz – Agora, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
 - Gary Breeze – Bali Bombings Memorial, London
 - Ed Carpenter – Tecotosh (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Brian Goldbloom – Festival Lanterns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Dan Graham – For Gordon Bunshaft (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
 - David Hockney
- Woldgate Woods, March 30 - April 21 2006 Archived 29 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
 - Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006 Archived 29 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
 
 - Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois[7]
 - Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Gopal Swami Khetanchi
- Bani-Thani
 - Devashree
 
 - Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)
 - Asylum NYC[8]
 - Lovejoy Columns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Statue of James Meredith
 
Deaths
    
    January to March
    
- 1 January – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (b.1921)
 - 8 January – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.1918)
 - 14 January – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.1939)
 - 29 January – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (b.1932)
 - 15 February – Joash Woodrow, English artist (b.1927)
 - 23 February – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.1920)
 - 4 March
- David Rose, American animator (b.1910)
 - Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (b.1929)
 
 - 7 March - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (b.1913)
 - 9 March – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (b.1919)
 - 25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.1950)
 - 27 March – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.1925)
 - 28 March – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.1928)
 
April to June
    
- 5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927)
 - 15 April – Davidee Itulu, Inuit artist (b. 1929)
 - 23 April – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (b.1936)
 - 3 May – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (b.1921)
 - 8 May – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b.1938)
 - 9 May – Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (b.1924)
 - 27 May – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928)
 
July to December
    
- 8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1944)
 - 15 July – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.1905)
 - 28 July – Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.1944)
 - 1 August 
- Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b.1965)
 - Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b.1924)
 
 - 4 August – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.1958)
 - 20 August – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1911)
 - 26 August – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.1913)
 - 1 September – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.1918)
 - 17 October – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.1940)
 - 25;October -- Emilio Vedova, Italian painter (b. 1919)
 - 26 November – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b.1943)
 - 6 December – Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (b.1927)
 - 16 December – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.1937)
 - 18 December – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.1905)
 
References
    
- "Program of events". Rembrandt 400 Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 October 2005. Retrieved 17 September 2005.
 - Riding, Alan (8 July 2006). "Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
 - "Munch paintings recovered". Aftenposten. 31 August 2006. Archived from the original on 19 February 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
 - Archived 2015-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
 - "Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m". BBC News. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
 - "'Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
 - Kennedy, Randy (20 August 2006). "A Most Public Artist Polishes a New York Image". The New York Times.
 - "We confined artists in an NYC detention center to spark a debate about US immigration". 13 April 2020.
 
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