1993 in art

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Events from the year 1993 in art.

Events

  • May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube. Tracey Emin's first major exhibition, "My Major Retrospective 1963–1993" (sic.) opens here on 19 November.{{cite web|title=Tracey Emin: My Major Retrospective 1963–1993|url=http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/majorretrospective/|publisher=White Cube|accessdate=2011-05-21}}
  • 27 MayVia dei Georgofili Massacre: A car bomb planted outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the Mafia kills five people and irretrievably destroys three paintings, including an Adoration of the shepherds (1620) by Gerard van Honthorst.{{cite news|title=Bombings Laid to Mafia War on Italy and Church|first=John|last=Tagliabue|date=1994-07-15|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/15/world/bombings-laid-to-mafia-war-on-italy-and-church.html|accessdate=2012-11-05}}{{cite book|title=The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You'll Never See|first=Celine|last=Delavaux|publisher=Prestel|year=2012|isbn=9783791347158|pages=86–9}}
  • 21 JuneTate St Ives gallery opens in Cornwall, England.
  • July – Multiple artworks are stolen from the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan.{{cite web | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/arts/twice-stolen-twice-found-a-case-of-art-on-the-lam.html|title=Twice Stolen, Twice Found: A Case of Art On the Lam|work=The New York Times|author=Ralph Blumenthal| date=19 July 2001| accessdate =5 November 2020}}
  • 18 August – The 14th century Kapellbrücke covered wooden truss bridge in Lucerne (Switzerland) crossing the river Reuss is largely destroyed by fire, together with two-thirds of the 147 17th-century interior paintings by Hans Heinrich Wägmann.

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  • Start of Stone & Man project in Qaqortoq, Greenland: 18 Nordic sculptors led by local artist Aka Høegh carve an initial 24 sculptures into rock faces and boulders around the town.{{cite web|title=Aka Høegh|url=http://www.dengyldne.dk/kunstnere/aka_hoegh_cv.html|publisher=Den Gyldne|language=Danish|accessdate=2023-03-16}}
  • The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.
  • The Barbie Liberation Organization, as a revolt against gender stereotypes, switches the voice boxes on a reported 300 talking G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls before returning them to stores.
  • A catalogue of Augustan portraits lists 148 replicas of Augustus of Primaporta, plus six done as cameos. The earliest known replica of Augustus is made before 25 BC.
  • Duo Yun Xuan holds the first art auction in mainland China.

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Works

{{see also|Category:1993 paintings|Category:1993 sculptures}}

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