1991 in art
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- 14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.[1]
- 25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
- 9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened.[2]
- September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.
Publications
- The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) - Watercolours.
- Eric Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble[3]
Exhibitions
- February 6 until May 6 - Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.[4]
- December 13 until February 2, 1992 - Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.[5]
Dance
- May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company
Awards
- John Moores Painting Prize - Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son"[6]
- Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor
Works
- Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Aráuz
- "The Umbrellas" (simultaneous sculptural instillations in California, U.S.A. and Japan) – Christo and Jeanne Claude
- Chain Reaction (sculpture, Santa Monica, California) – Paul Conrad
- Field (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony Gormley
- Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst
- The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst
- Capitalism (sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry Kirkland
- Guardians of the Gate (bronze, San Francisco) – Miles Metzger
- PBS 1963-2000 (electric image components and neon, sculpture, Trenton, new Jersey) - Nam Jun Paik[7]
- Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (installation) – Cornelia Parker
- Tompkins Square Crawl (performance) - William Pope.L[8]
- Self (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc Quinn
- Host Analog (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) – Buster Simpson
- Cascade Charley (fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall
- La Familia Pomare – Aline Amaru[9][10]
Births
- Hannah Levy, American sculptor[11]
- Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist[12]