# 2006 in art

The year 2006 in art involved various significant events.

## Events

* Rembrandt 400 – Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.
* 1 January – Resale Rights Directive in the European Union, providing a Droit de suite for artists, is implemented (in the United Kingdom by the Artist's Resale Right Regulations (February 13)).
* 1 July – Mudam museum of modern art in Luxembourg (city), designed by I. M. Pei, is opened by Grand Duke Jean.
* 31 August – Stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.
* 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in the north of England sells its L. S. Lowry painting A River Bank (1947; bought in 1951 for £150) for £1.25 million at a Christie's auction to a private buyer to help fund a £10 million budget deficit.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize – Marcus Wills, The Paul Juraszek Monolith
* Artes Mundi Prize – Eija-Liisa Ahtila
* Beck's Futures – Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight
* Hugo Boss Prize – Tacita Dean
* Caldecott Medal – Chris Raschka, The Hello, Goodbye Window
* John Moores Painting Prize – Martin Greenland for "Before Vermeer's Clouds"
* Turner Prize – Tomma Abts
* Wynne prize – John Beard, The Gap

## Films

* Art School Confidential
* Factory Girl
* Goya's Ghosts
* Klimt

## Exhibitions

* The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
* All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
* Frank Stella 1958, 4 February - 7 May at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts then traveled to the Wexner Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from September 1 – December 31.
* Rembrandt – Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, 24 Feb – 18 June 2006
* A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, 26 Jun – 18 September 2006
* Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 8 Jul – 3 September 2006
* Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 September 2006 – 1 Jan 2007)
* Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November–December)
* Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 February 2006 (toured throughout UK)
* "Barely Legal" (Banksy)

## Works

* Magdalena Abakanowicz – Agora, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
* Gary Breeze – Bali Bombings Memorial, London
* Ed Carpenter – Tecotosh (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Brian Goldbloom – Festival Lanterns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Dan Graham – For Gordon Bunshaft (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
* David Hockney
** Woldgate Woods, March 30 - April 21 2006 Archived 29 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
** Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006 Archived 29 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
* Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois
* Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Gopal Swami Khetanchi
** Bani-Thani
** Devashree
* Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)
* Asylum NYC
* Lovejoy Columns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Statue of James Meredith

## Deaths
### January to March

* 1 January – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (b.1921)
* 8 January – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.1918)
* 14 January – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.1939)
* 29 January – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (b.1932)
* 15 February – Joash Woodrow, English artist (b.1927)
* 23 February – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.1920)
* 4 March
** David Rose, American animator (b.1910)
** Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (b.1929)
* 7 March - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (b.1913)
* 9 March – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (b.1919)
* 25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.1950)
* 27 March – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.1925)
* 28 March – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.1928)

### April to June

* 5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927)
* 15 April – Davidee Itulu, Inuk artist (b. 1929)
* 23 April – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (b.1936)
* 3 May – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (b.1921)
* 8 May – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b.1938)
* 9 May – Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (b.1924)
* 27 May – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928)

### July to December

* 8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1944)
* 15 July – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.1905)
* 28 July – Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.1944)
* 1 August
** Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b.1965)
** Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b.1924)
* 4 August – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.1958)
* 20 August – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1911)
* 26 August – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.1913)
* 1 September – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.1918)
* 17 October – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.1940)
* 25;October -- Emilio Vedova, Italian painter (b. 1919)
* 26 November – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b.1943)
* 6 December – Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (b.1927)
* 16 December – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.1937)
* 18 December – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.1905)