2001 in art

Undated

• A new wing in the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery of the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, is dedicated to the memory of Michel Kikoine.
• The Leopold Museum opens in Vienna.
• The Pupils is created by Michaël Borremans in Belgium.
• They Could Still Serve is created by Ellen Gallagher in the United States.
• Traditional Chinese Studies Institute is created by Chen Danqing in China.

Exhibitions

• September 11 until November 11 - Caspar David Freidrich: Moonwatchers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
• Max Beckmann retrospective at the Pompidou Centre, Paris

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Nicholas Harding for John Bell as King Lear
• Beck's Futures – Tim Stoner
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Giuseppe Penone
• Turner Prize – Martin Creed for Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (Tate)
• Venice Biennial
• Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Richard Serra (USA), Cy Twombly (USA)
• Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Gregor Schneider (Germany)

Works

• Michaël Borremans – The Pupils
• Ingvar Cronhammar - Elia in Herning, Denmark
• Jeremy Deller – Battle of Orgreave
• Lucian Freud – Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
• Andy Goldsworthy - East Coast Cairn (displayed on the grounds of SUNY Purchase in Purchase, New York)
• Tracy Harris – Funnel
• Michael Landy - Breakdown
• Daniel Richter – Tarifa
• Rigga - sculptures in Portland, Oregon jointly with artists
• Grzegorz Łagowski - Miles Davis Monument
• Ean Eldred - Echo Gate
• James Harrison - Ghost Ship
• Peter Nylen - Alluvial Wall
• Tamsie Ringler - Living Room (sculpture, Gresham, Oregon)
• Michael Stutz - Facing the Crowd
• Zeng Fanzhi – The Last Supper

Deaths

January to June

• 14 January - Fred Hughes, American art executive (Founder of the Warhol Foundation) (b. 1943)
• 30 January – O. Winston Link, American photographer. (b. 1914)
• 12 February – Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (b. 1912)
• 17 February – Barry Burman, English painter and educator (b. 1943)
• 18 February – Balthus, French modern artist (b. 1908)
• 4 March
• Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer (b. 1904)
• Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 1 June – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 19 June – David Sylvester, English art critic and curator (b. 1924)
• 27 June – Tove Jansson, Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author (b. 1914)

July to December

• 1 July – Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter (b. 1910)
• 4 July – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (b. 1919)
• 11 July – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (b. 1946)
• 28 August – Juan Muñoz, Spanish sculptor (b. 1953)
• 23 October
• Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (b. 1928)
• Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (b. 1917)
• 3 November – Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born art historian (b. 1909)
• 19 November – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
• 25 November – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)
• December – Mercedes Matter, American painter (b. 1913)
• 29 December – György Kepes, Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist (b. 1906)

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