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Events
- 10 July - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
Full date unknown
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public.
- A sculpture by Henri Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), is sold for US$ 9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture.
Awards
- Archibald Prize - Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
- Beck's Futures - Toby Paterson
- Turner Prize - Keith Tyson
- Wynne Prize - Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain
Works
- Anish Kapoor - Marsyas (Tate Modern)
Deaths
January to June
- 30 January - Inge Mörath, Austrian photographer (b.1923).
- 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).
- 22 August - Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b.1915).
- 23 November - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b.1911).
- 9 December - Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (b.1944).
- 9 December - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (b.1942).
- 26 December - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b.1952).