Editing 2002 in art

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The year '''2002 in [[art]]''' involved various significant events.

==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.

===Full date unknown===
*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>

==Exhibitions==
*[[May 30]] until [[August 18]] - ''[[Robert Longo]]: Works from the [[Freud]] Cycle'' at the [[Jewish Museum Berlin]] in [[Berlin]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jmberlin.de/en/robert-longo-works-from-the-freud-drawings | title=Robert Longo: Works from the Freud Cycle }}</ref>
*[[September 12]] until [[October 22]] - "Mike Bidlo: Not [[Picasso]], Not [[Pollock]], Not [[Warhol]] at the [[Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art]] in [[Oslo]], Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/mike-bidlo-not-picasso-not-pollock-not-warhol/28811|title = Mike Bidlo - Not Picasso, Not Pollock, Not Warhol &#124; Exhibition}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Archibald Prize]] – [[Cherry Hood]], ''Simon Tedeschi Unplugged''
*[[Beck's Futures]] – [[Toby Paterson]]
*[[Hugo Boss Prize]] – [[Pierre Huyghe]]
*[[John Moores Painting Prize]] - [[Peter Davies (artist)|Peter Davies]] for "Super Star Fucker - [[Andy Warhol]] Text Painting"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/peter_davies.aspx|title=Peter Davies - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums|website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk|accessdate=28 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[Turner Prize]] – [[Keith Tyson]]
*[[Wynne Prize]] – [[Angus Nivision]], ''Remembering Rain''

==Works==
{{see also|Category:2002 sculptures}}
*[[Magdalena Abakanowicz]] – ''[[:File:Abakany Cytadela Poznan.jpg|Nierozpoznani]]'' ("The Unrecognised Ones", sculpture)
*[[Banksy]] – ''[[Balloon Girl]]'' (mural, London) 
*[[Patricia Cronin]] – "[[Patricia Cronin#Life and work|Memorial to a Marriage]]" at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx, New York]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hyperallergic.com/37601/memorial-to-a-marriage-woodlawn-cemetery-patricia-cronin/|title = From Courbet to the Bronx, the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Names Gets Marriage Memorial|date = 10 October 2011}}</ref>
*[[Ken Currie]] – ''Three Oncologists''
*''[[Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao]]'' (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
*[[Helen Frankenthaler]] - ''Contentment Island''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artnewengland.com/helen-frankenthaler-late-works-1990-2003/|title = Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003 – Art New England| date=27 February 2021 }}</ref>
*[[Lucian Freud]] – Portrait of [[David Hockney]]
*Gwen Gillen – ''Mary Tyler Moore'' (statue, [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/news_20020508mtmunveiling|title = News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/01/26/fans-visit-statue-remember-mary-tyler-moore/97102748/ | title=Fans visit statue to remember Mary Tyler Moore | date=26 January 2017 | publisher=USA Today | accessdate=13 July 2018 }}</ref>
*[[Anish Kapoor]] – ''Marsyas'' ([[Tate Modern]], London)
*[[Ron Mueck]] – ''[[:File:Mueck-head.jpg|Mask II]]'' (sculpture)<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>
*[[Claes Oldenburg]] and [[Coosje van Bruggen]] – ''[[Cupid's Span]]'' (sculpture, San Francisco)
*Moises Cabrera Orozco – [[Statue of Benito Juárez (New York City)|Statue of Benito Juárez]] (cast in Mexico 2002; installed in [[Bryant Park]], [[Manhattan]], New York City 2004)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-park/monuments/1969|title=Bryant Park Monuments - Benito Juarez : NYC Parks|website=www.nycgovparks.org}}</ref>
*[[Neo Rauch]]
**''[[Hunt (painting)|Hunt]]'' (''Hatz'')
**''[[Reactionary Situation]]'' (''Reaktionäre Situation'')
*[[Ed Ruscha]] - ''Tulsa Slut''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/86628|title=Edward Ruscha. Tulsa Slut. 2002 &#124; MoMA}}</ref>
*[[William Wegman (photographer)|William Wegman]] – ''[[Dog Bowl (sculpture)|Dog Bowl]]'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*[[Olbram Zoubek]], Jan Kerel and Zdeněk Holzel – "[[Memorial to the Victims of Communism]]" in [[Prague]]

==Deaths==

===January to June===
*30 January – [[Inge Morath]], Austrian photographer (b. 1923)
*February – [[Víctor Grippo]], painter, engraver and sculptor, the father of conceptual art in Argentina (b. 1936)
* 16 February – [[Peter Voulkos]], American ceramic sculptor (b. 1924)
*12 March – [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], Canadian painter and [[sculpture|sculptor]] (b. 1923)
*22 May – [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], French [[sculpture|sculptor]], painter, and film maker (b. 1930).
*12 June – [[Bill Blass (designer)|Bill Blass]], American fashion designer (b. 1922).

===July to December===
*8 July – [[Ward Kimball]], American [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning [[animator]] (b. 1914).
*13 July – [[Yousuf Karsh]], Armenian-Canadian photographer (b. 1908).
*17 July – [[George Rickey]], American [[kinetic sculpture|kinetic sculptor]] (b. 1907).
*5 August – [[Robert Lenkiewicz]], English painter (b. 1941).
*11 August – [[Galen Rowell]], American wilderness photographer, in aviation accident (b. 1940).
*22 August – [[Richard Lippold]], American [[Sculpture|sculptor]] (b. 1915).
*19 October - [[Guy Krohg]], Norwegian painter (b. 1917).
*20 October - [[Andrew Martz]], Russian animal sculptor (b. 1924).
*18 November – [[Bryan Robertson]], English curator (b. 1925).
*23 November – [[Roberto Matta]], Chilean painter (b. 1911).
*9 December
**[[Ian Hornak]], American painter and draughtsman (b. 1944).
**[[Stan Rice]], American poet and artist (b. 1942).
*26 December – [[Herb Ritts]], American photographer (b. 1952).

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