2002 in art
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- 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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 6 October - Adam by Venetian Master Tullio Lombardo, which was the first life size marble sculpture created since antiquity falls off its display pedestal (which was unable to beat its weight) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and shatters into many pieces and fragments.[3][4]
- 22 November – Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in Amherst, Massachusetts.[5]
- 14 December – New building for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, designed by Tadao Ando, opens to the public.
- A sculpture by Henri Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), is sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture at the time.[6]
Exhibitions
- May 30 until August 18 - Robert Longo: Works from the Freud Cycle at the Jewish Museum Berlin in Berlin, Germany.[7]
- September 12 until October 22 - "Mike Bidlo: Not Picasso, Not Pollock, Not Warhol at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway.[8]
Awards
- Archibald Prize – Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
- Beck's Futures – Toby Paterson
- Hugo Boss Prize – Pierre Huyghe
- John Moores Painting Prize - Peter Davies for "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting"[9]
- Turner Prize – Keith Tyson
- Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain
