2002 in art

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Events

• 21 May – Extensions to the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, London, designed by John Simpson, are opened.
• 3 July – 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.
• 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 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, a biopic starring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, receives its world première at the Venice International Film Festival.
• 22 November – Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in Amherst, Massachusetts.
• 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.

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
• Beck's Futures – Toby Paterson
• Hugo Boss Prize – Pierre Huyghe
• Turner Prize – Keith Tyson
• Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain

Works

See also: Category:2002 sculptures

• Balloon Girl, Banksy
• Cupid's Span, San Francisco
• Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao, Portland, Oregon
• Dog Bowl, Portland, Oregon
• Ken Currie – Three Oncologists
• Anish Kapoor – Marsyas (Tate Modern)
• Ron Mueck – Mask II (sculpture)
• Neo Rauch
  • Hunt (Hatz)
  • Reactionary Situation (Reaktionäre Situation)

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)
• 12 March – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 22 May – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter, and film maker (b. 1930).
• 12 June – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922).

July to December

• 8 July – Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (b. 1914).
• 13 July – Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (b. 1908).
• 17 July – George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (b. 1907).
• 5 August – Robert Lenkiewicz, English painter (b. 1941).
• 22 August – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b. 1915).
• 19 October - Guy Krohg, Norwegian painter (b. 1917).
• 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).