1996 in art
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- 8 January – Shortly after publication of the Italian edition of his book The Art Forger's Handbook, English-born art forger Eric Hebborn is found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument; he dies in hospital on 11 January.[1]
- 15 March – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund, opens.
- November – Museum für Gegenwart (contemporary art museum) in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, converted by Josef Paul Kleihues, opens.
- Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow opens.
- Museum Tinguely in Basel, designed by Mario Botta, opens.
- For an exhibition at the de Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam, Maurizio Cattelan steals the entire contents of another artist's show from a nearby gallery with the idea of passing it off as his own work, Another Fucking Readymade, until the police insist he return the items on threat of arrest.[2]
Awards
- Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville
- Jan Amos Comenius Medal (UNESCO) – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children
- The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney
- Turner Prize – Douglas Gordon
- Wynne Prize – William Robinson, Creation landscape – earth and sea
Exhibitions
- British Art Show 5 – various venues in Manchester
- Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970–1995 – travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Vermeer – nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Works
- Stephen Antonakos – The Room Chapel (mixed media sculpture)[3]
- George Beasley – Five Points Monument (Atlanta)
- Robert Calvo – Ascension (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
- Maurizio Cattelan – Bidibidobidiboo (sculpture)
- Angela Conner – Rising Universe (water sculpture)
- Paul DiPasquale – The Arthur Ashe Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia[4]
- Raymond Kaskey – Gateway of Dreams (Atlanta)
- David LaChapelle – "Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow"[5]
- Roy Lichtenstein – Brushstrokes (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
- Liza Lou – Kitchen (completed)[6]
- Ron Mueck[7] – Big Baby, Mongrel and Pinocchio (sculptures
- Alexander Stoddart – Ossian: in memoriam James Macpherson 1736–96 (bronze head)