2006 in art

The year 2006 in art involved various significant events.

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]

The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
Frank Stella 1958, 4 February - 7 May at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts then traveled to the Wexner Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from September 1 – December 31.^[7]^[8]
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)

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)

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

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)