1996 in art The year 1996 in art involves various significant events.Events 8 January – Shortly after publication of the Italian edition of his book The Art Forger's Handbook , English-born art forger Eric Hebborn is found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument; he dies in hospital on 11 January. 15 March – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen , designed by Søren Robert Lund , opens. November – Museum für Gegenwart in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin , converted by Josef Paul Kleihues , opens. Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow opens. Museum Tinguely in Basel , designed by Mario Botta , opens. For an exhibition at the de Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam, Maurizio Cattelan steals the entire contents of another artist's show from a nearby gallery with the idea of passing it off as his own work , Another Fucking Readymade , until the police insist he return the items on threat of arrest.Awards Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe , Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam , for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney Turner Prize – Douglas Gordon Wynne Prize – William Robinson , Creation landscape – earth and sea Exhibitions British Art Show 5 – various venues in Manchester Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970–1995 – travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York .Vermeer – nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York .Works Robert Calvo – Ascension Maurizio Cattelan – Bidibidobidiboo Angela Conner – Rising Universe Paul DiPasquale - statue of Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia David LaChapelle - "Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow" Roy Lichtenstein – Brushstrokes Ron Mueck – Big Baby , Mongrel and Pinocchio (sculpturesFilms BasquiatDeaths January to June 3 January – Terence Cuneo , English railway and military painter. 6 January – Duane Hanson , American sculptor. 9 January – Félix González-Torres , Cuban artist. 11 January – Eric Hebborn, English-born art forger. 11 February – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger , French photographer and ethnographer . 18 January – Leonor Fini , Argentine surrealist painter. 28 January – Jerry Siegel , American comic book artist. 20 February – Audrey Munson , American actress and artist's model. 5 March – Joshua Compston – British gallerist. 15 March – Helen Chadwick , British artist . 14 April – Mervyn Levy , Welsh-born art critic and artist. 25 April – Saul Bass , American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker. 7 May – William Copley , American artist. 10 June – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky , Austrian painter.July to December 17 July - Rico Puhlmann , German photographer. 28 July – Roger Tory Peterson , American naturalist , ornithologist , artist and educator. 27 August – Abram Games , English poster artist. 24 October – Lin Onus , Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist. 22 November – Edmund Teske , American photographer. 26 November – Paul Rand , American graphic designer. 29 November – Dan Flavin , American minimalist artist. 3 December – Jean Tabaud , French artist. 11 December – Willie Rushton , English cartoonist , satirist , comedian, actor and performer. 16 December – Quentin Bell , English art historian and author. 25 December – Gabriel Loire , French stained glass artist.
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