2006 in art

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The year 2006 in art involves various significant events.

Events

Rembrandt 400: Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.^[1]
1 July – Mudam museum of modern art in Luxembourg (city), designed by I. M. Pei, is opened by Grand Duke Jean.^[2]
31 August – The 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 England sells its L. S. Lowry painting A River Bank (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.^[4]

The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Jan 2 – Dec 31, 2006
All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Jan 26 – Dec 31, 2006
Rembrandt – Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, Feb 24 – Jun 18, 2006
A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, Jun 26 – Sep 18, 2006
Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Jul 8 – Sep 3, 2006
Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 Sep 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 Feb 2006 (toured throughout UK)
"Barely Legal" (Banksy)

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
- Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006
Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Gopal Swami Khetanchi
- Bani-Thani
- Devashree
Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)
Lovejoy Columns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)

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)
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)

5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927)
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)

8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1945)
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)
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)

↑ "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.
↑ "Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m". BBC News. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 2011-07-22.

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