2009 in art

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The year 2009 in art involves some significant events. It was the Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009.

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September 24 - René Magritte's painting Olympia (a nude portrait of his wife) is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels, by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about $1.1 million.^[1]^[2]
Tim Burton's drawings are compiled and published under the name The Art of Tim Burton.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards in New York.^[3]

The Pictures Generation, curated by Douglas Eklund, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CIty, (April 29 – August 2, 2010)

Lion d'or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Yoko Ono (Japan), John Baldessari (USA)
Lion d'or for Best Pavilion: The United States of America exhbiting the work of Bruce Nauman

January 10 – Coosje van Bruggen, 66, wife and collaborator of sculptor Claes Oldenburg
January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter
February 2 – Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter
March 8 – Ernest Trova, 82, American sculptor
May 31 – Frederick Hammersley, 90, American painter
June 4 – Robert Colescott, 83, American painter
June 16 – Frank Mason, 88, American painter and teacher
July 13- Dash Snow, 27, American artist
July 26 – Merce Cunningham, 90, American dancer, choreographer who worked closely with Robert Rauschenberg and other visual artists.
July 28 – Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor
August 26 – Hyman Bloom, 96, American painter
August 31 – Barry Flanagan, 68, English sculptor
September 5 – Richard Merkin, 70, American painter, illustrator
October 1 – Charles Seliger, 83, American painter
October 18 – Nancy Spero, 83, American artist
October 27 – Roy DeCarava, 90, American artist, photographer
November 11 – Irving Kriesberg, 90, American painter
November 18 – Jeanne-Claude, 74, French artist
November 26 – Peter Forakis, 82 American sculptor
December 10 – Thomas Hoving, 78, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art