1996 in art

The year 1996 in art involves various significant events.

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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.[1]
• 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 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.[2]

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, 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.
• Vermeer – nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Works

• Robert 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[3]
• David LaChapelle - "Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow"[4]
• Roy Lichtenstein – Brushstrokes (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Ron Mueck[5] – Big Baby, Mongrel and Pinocchio (sculptures

Films

• Basquiat

Deaths

January to June

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

July to December

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

References

1. Hoving, Thomas (1996). False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-83148-1.
2. "Maurizio Cattelan: All". New York: Guggenheim Museum. 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
3. https://onmonumentave.com/blog/2017/11/20/an-avenue-for-for-all-people-how-arthur-ashe-came-to-monument-avenue
4. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/david-lachapelle-alexander-mcqueen-and-isabella-blow-1
5. Hurlston, David; et al. (2010). Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog). Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria.