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Contents 1 Events 2 Exhibitions 3 Awards 4 Other Artworks 4.1 Paintings 4.2 Sculptures 4.3 Other 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Puppy by Jeff Koons is moved from Sydney Harbour to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

[edit] Exhibitions

• Sensation opens at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
• Documenta X opens in Kassel

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize - Nigel Thomson
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Torsten Andersson
• Turner Prize - Gillian Wearing

[edit] Other Artworks

[edit] Paintings

• Basil Blackshaw - Niall's Pony (The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery)
• Wayne Thiebaud - Flatland River
• Ernest Zobole - Painting about a Landscape

[edit] Sculptures

• Four-Sided Pyramid by Sol LeWitt
• Another Place by Antony Gormley

[edit] Other

• ... by ...

[edit] Deaths

• March 7 - Martin Kippenberger, 44, German "bad boy" artist
• July 16 - Dora Maar, photographer and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso
• December 16 - Lillian Disney, artist and wife of Walt Disney