Editing 2002 in art (section)

==Events==
*21 May – Extensions to the [[Queen's Gallery]] at [[Buckingham Palace]], London, designed by [[John Simpson (architect)|John Simpson]], are opened.
*3 July – [[Statue of Margaret Thatcher, Guildhall Art Gallery|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/04/artsnews.redbox|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Thatcher statue decapitated|accessdate=12 December 2011|location=London|first=Michael|authorlink=Michael White (journalist)|last=White|date=4 July 2002}}</ref>
*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 [[Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet|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 (2002 film)|Frida]]'', a [[biopic]] starring [[Salma Hayek]] as [[Frida Kahlo]], receives its world première at the [[Venice International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2002&wknd=43&p=.htm|title=October 25-27, 2002 Weekend|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|accessdate=11 November 2012}}</ref> 
*6 October - ''[[Adam (Lombardo)|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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-11-10 |title='Adam' Sculpture Returns To Metropolitan Museum Of Art After 12-Year Restoration Project - CBS New York |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/adam-sculpture-returns-to-metropolitan-museum-of-art-after-12-year-restoration-project/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TULLIO LOMBARDO'S ADAM A Masterpiece Restored - The Metropolitan Museum of Art |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2014/tullio-lombardos-adam |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.metmuseum.org}}</ref>
*22 November – [[Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art]] opens to the public in [[Amherst, Massachusetts|Amherst]], Massachusetts.<ref>[http://www.teachers.net/gazette/NOV02/ericcarle.html teachers.net]. Accessed 25 February 2014</ref>
*14 December – New building for the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]] in [[Texas]], designed by [[Tadao Ando]], opens to the public.

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*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.<ref>http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/kwells/files/15%20-%20matisse%20-%20large%20red%20interior%20-%20hh.pdf{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>