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2003 in art

The year 2003 in art involved various significant events.

Events
January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed. • May 11Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. • June 15November 2 – A record number of seven co-curators is involved in the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale, directed by Francesco Bonami. • August 27Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder is stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch collection at Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. It is recovered in 2007. • November – Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000. • December 25Beagle 2 lands on the surface of Mars; its calibration target plate is painted by Damien Hirst. • date unknownCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art. ==Exhibitions==
Awards
Archibald PrizeGeoffrey Dyer, a portrait of Richard FlanaganBeck's FuturesRosalind NashashibiSchock Prize in Visual ArtsSusan RothenbergTurner PrizeGrayson Perry • The Venice Biennale (June 15 - November 2) - • The Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy) and Carol Rama (Italy) • The Lion d'or for best artwork in the main exhibition: Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland) • The Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Sun-Mei Tse (Luxemburg) • Wynne PrizeTim Kyle, Seated Figure ==Works==
Works
Eco-Earth Globe, Salem, Oregon • Jake and Dinos ChapmanInsult to InjuryTony CraggStainless Steel PillarOlafur EliassonThe weather project (installation in Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London) • David Fairbairn – Self Portrait DFCornelia ParkerThe Distance (A Kiss With String Attached): Subconscious of a Monument (interventionist sculpture) • Michal RovnerData ZoneJørn UtzonHomage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (tapestry in the Sydney Opera House) • Kehinde WileyGo == Films ==
Deaths
January to March9 JanuaryConstantin Kluge, Russian and French painter (b.1912). • 20 JanuaryAl Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903). • 21 JanuaryTony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913). • 27 JanuaryLouis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915). • 2 FebruaryEmerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914). • 10 FebruaryEdgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910). • 15 FebruaryVincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909) • 14 MarchJack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945). April to June9 AprilJorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908). • 16 AprilGraham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909). • 23 AprilFernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910). • 25 AprilLynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor • 29 MayPierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930). • 7 JuneGeorges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920). • 13 JuneLajos Tscheligi, Hungarian painter (b.1913). July to September11 July - Dorothy Miller, 99, American curator (b.1904). • 15 AugustKirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946). • 21 AugustWesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963). • 29 AugustVladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919). • 1 SeptemberTerry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915). October to December3 OctoberWilliam Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907). • 16 OctoberAvni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919). • 9 NovemberMario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925). • 4 DecemberDavid Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (b. 1944). • 15 DecemberGeorge Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923). • 17 DecemberWally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928). ==References==
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