Editing 1996 in art (section)

==Events==
*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.<ref>{{cite book|title=False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes|first=Thomas|last=Hoving|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1996|isbn=0-684-83148-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/falseimpressions00thom}}</ref>
*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, Glasgow|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3961|title=Maurizio Cattelan: All|year=2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606223350/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3961|archivedate=2014-06-06|publisher=Guggenheim Museum|location=New York|accessdate=2019-01-26}}</ref>