Editing 1996 in art

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Events from the year '''1996 in art'''.

==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>

==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 (artist)|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|Museum of Modern Art]], New York.
*[[Vermeer]] – nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

==Works==
{{see also|Category:1996 paintings|Category:1996 sculptures}}

*[[Stephen Antonakos]] – ''The Room Chapel'' (mixed media sculpture)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksteinprojects.com/news/stephen-antonakos-the-room-chapel-at-allentown-art-museum|title=Stephen Antonakos: "The Room Chapel" at Allentown Art Museum - News - Bookstein Projects}}</ref>
*George Beasley – [[Five Points Monument]] (Atlanta)
*Robert Calvo – ''[[Ascension (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]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://onmonumentave.com/blog/2017/11/20/an-avenue-for-for-all-people-how-arthur-ashe-came-to-monument-avenue|title = "An Avenue for All People": How Arthur Ashe Came to Monument Avenue| date=22 November 2017 }}</ref>
*[[Raymond Kaskey]] – ''[[Gateway of Dreams]]'' (Atlanta)
*[[David LaChapelle]] – "[[Alexander McQueen]] and [[Isabella Blow]]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/artwork/david-lachapelle-alexander-mcqueen-and-isabella-blow-1|title=David LaChapelle &#124; Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow (1996) &#124; Artsy}}</ref>
*[[Roy Lichtenstein]] – ''[[Brushstrokes (sculpture)|Brushstrokes]]'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*[[Liza Lou]] – ''Kitchen'' (completed)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/media/46661|title = The Making of Liza Lou's Kitchen}}</ref>
*[[Ron Mueck]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog)|last=Hurlston|first=David|year=2010|publisher=National Gallery of Victoria|location=Melbourne|display-authors=etal}}</ref> – ''Big Baby'', ''Mongrel'' and ''Pinocchio'' (sculptures
*[[Alexander Stoddart]] – ''Ossian: in memoriam James Macpherson 1736–96'' (bronze head)

==Films==

*[[Basquiat (film)|Basquiat]]

==Deaths==

===January to June===
*3 January – [[Terence Cuneo]], English railway and military painter (b. [[1907 in art|1907]]).
*6 January – [[Duane Hanson]], American sculptor (b. [[1925 in art|1925]]).
*9 January – [[Félix González-Torres]], Cuban artist (b. [[1957 in art|1957]]).
*11 January – [[Eric Hebborn]], English-born [[art forger]] (b. [[1934 in art|1934]]).
*11 February – [[Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger]], French photographer and [[ethnography|ethnographer]] (b. [[1902 in art|1902]]).
*18 January – [[Leonor Fini]], [[Argentina|Argentine]]-born surrealist painter (b. [[1908 in art|1908]]).
*28 January – [[Jerry Siegel]], American comic book artist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*20 February – [[Audrey Munson]], American actress and artist's model (b. [[1891 in art|1891]]).
*5 March – [[Joshua Compston]], British gallerist (b. [[1970 in art|1970]]).
*15 March – [[Helen Chadwick]], British artist (b. [[1953 in art|1953]]).
*14 April – [[Mervyn Levy]], Welsh-born art critic and artist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*25 April – [[Saul Bass]], American [[graphic designer]] and [[Academy Award]]-winning filmmaker (b. [[1920 in art|1920]]).
*7 May – [[William Copley (artist)|William Copley]], American artist (b. [[1919 in art|1919]]).
*10 June – [[Marie-Louise von Motesiczky]], Austrian painter (b. [[1906 in art|1906]]).

===July to December===
*17 July - [[Rico Puhlmann]], German  photographer (b. [[1934 in art|1934]]).
*28 July – [[Roger Tory Peterson]], American [[natural history|naturalist]], [[ornithology|ornithologist]], artist and educator (b. [[1908 in art|1908]]).
*27 August – [[Abram Games]], English poster artist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*24 October – [[Lin Onus]], Scottish-Aboriginal [[Koori]] artist (b. [[1948 in art|1948]]).
*22 November – [[Edmund Teske]], American photographer (b. [[1911 in art|1911]]).
*26 November – [[Paul Rand]], American [[graphic design]]er (b. 1914).
*29 November – [[Dan Flavin]], American [[Minimalism|minimalist]] artist (b. [[1933 in art|1933]]).
*3 December – [[Jean Tabaud]], French artist (b. 1914).
*11 December – [[Willie Rushton]], English [[cartoonist]], [[satirist]], comedian, actor and performer (b. [[1937 in art|1937]]).
*16 December – [[Quentin Bell]], English art historian and author (b. [[1910 in art|1910]]).
*25 December – [[Gabriel Loire]], French [[stained glass]] artist (b. [[1904 in art|1904]]).

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