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Events

• 1 January - A black monolith measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• 11 September - An estimated $100 million worth of art was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Public artwork accounted for around $10 million of this figure, which included works by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Roy Lichtenstein.
• 17 July - Inauguration of the Altamira caves's replica created by Manuel Franquelo and Sven Nebel.

Full date unknown

• 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.

Exhibitions

• 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 The lights going on and off.

Works

• Jeremy Deller - Battle of Orgreave
• Tracy Harris - Funnel

Deaths

January to June

• 30 January - O. Winston Link, American photographer. (b.1914).
• 12 February - Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (b.1912).
• 18 February - Balthus, French modern artist (b.1908).
• 4 March - Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer (b.1904).
• 4 March - 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).

July to December

• 4 July - Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (b.1919).
• 11 July - Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (b.1946).
• July - Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter (b.1910).
• 23 October - Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (b.1928).
• 23 October - Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (b.1917).
• 19 November - Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b.1924).