2001 in art

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 .
• 4 June – Unveiling of Rachel Whiteread's Untitled Monument on the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.
• 17 July – Inauguration of the Altamira cave replica created by Manuel Franquelo and Sven Nebel.
• 11 September – An estimated $100 million worth of art is destroyed in the 11 September attacks on New York City. Public artwork accounts for around $10 million of this figure, which includes works by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Roy Lichtenstein. Fritz Koenig's Great Spherical Caryatid survives though damaged.
• Undated – 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 Work No. 227: The lights going on and off
• Venice Biennial
• * Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Richard Serra, Cy Twombly
• * Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Gregor Schneider

  Works

• Jeremy Deller – Battle of Orgreave
• Lucian Freud – Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
• Tracy Harris – Funnel
• Michael Landy - Breakdown
• Daniel Richter – Tarifa
• Rigga - sculptures jointly with artists
• *Ean Eldred - Echo Gate
• *James Harrison - Ghost Ship
• *Peter Nylen - Alluvial Wall
• Tamsie Ringler - Living Room
• Michael Stutz - Facing the Crowd
• Zeng Fanzhi – The Last Supper

  Deaths

January to June

• 30 January – O. Winston Link, American photographer.
• 12 February – Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer
• 17 February – Barry Burman, English painter and educator
• 18 February – Balthus, French modern artist
• 4 March
• *Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer
• *Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist
• 1 June – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist
• 19 June – David Sylvester, English art critic and curator
• 27 June – Tove Jansson, Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author

  July to December

• 4 July – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer
• 11 July – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality
• July – Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter
• 28 August - Juan Muñoz, Spanish sculptor,
• 23 October
• *Josh Kirby, English commercial artist
• *Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar
• 3 November – Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born art historian
• 19 November – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist
• 25 November – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator
• December – Mercedes Matter, American painter
• 29 December – György Kepes, Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist