2006 in art

• Rembrandt 400 – Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.{{cite web|url=http://www.rembrandt400.com |publisher=Rembrandt 400 Foundation |title=Program of events |accessdate=17 September 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026012205/http://www.rembrandt400.com/ |archivedate=26 October 2005 |url-status=dead }}
• 1 January – Resale Rights Directive in the European Union, providing a Droit de suite for artists, is implemented (in the United Kingdom by the [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20060346.htm Artist's Resale Right Regulations] (February 13)).
• 1 July – Mudam museum of modern art in Luxembourg (city), designed by I. M. Pei, is opened by Grand Duke Jean.{{cite news |title=Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art |first=Alan |last=Riding |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08pei.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 July 2006 |accessdate=27 June 2011}}
• 31 August – Stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.{{cite news|title=Munch paintings recovered |date=31 August 2006 |work=Aftenposten |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1441444.ece |accessdate=22 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219221013/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1441444.ece |archivedate=19 February 2008 }}
• 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in the north of England sells its L. S. Lowry painting [http://www.ls-lowry.com/work/arb47.html A River Bank]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009032823/http://www.ls-lowry.com/work/arb47.html|date=2015-10-09}} (1947; bought in 1951 for £150) for £1.25 million at a Christie's auction to a private buyer to help fund a £10 million budget deficit.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6157204.stm|work=BBC News|title=Council's Lowry sold for £1.25m|date=17 November 2006|accessdate=22 July 2011}}

• Archibald Prize – Marcus Wills, The Paul Juraszek Monolith
• Artes Mundi Prize – Eija-Liisa Ahtila
• Beck's Futures – Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight
• Hugo Boss Prize – Tacita Dean
• Caldecott Medal – Chris Raschka, The Hello, Goodbye Window
• John Moores Painting Prize – Martin Greenland for "Before Vermeer's Clouds"{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/24/prizewinners/martin_greenland.aspx|title='Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums|website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk|accessdate=28 November 2018}}
• Turner Prize – Tomma Abts
• Wynne prize – John Beard, The Gap

• Art School Confidential
• Factory Girl
• Goya's Ghosts
• Klimt

• The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 Jan – 31 December 2006
• All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 Jan – 31 December 2006
• Frank Stella 1958, 4 February - 7 May at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts then traveled to the Wexner Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from September 1 – December 31.{{cite web | url=https://brooklynrail.org/2006/03/art/frank-stella-1958 | title=Frank Stella 1958 | date=5 March 2006 }}{{cite web | url=https://wexarts.org/press/exhibition-focuses-frank-stella-s-1958-paintings | title=Exhibition Focuses on Frank Stella's 1958 Paintings | Wexner Center for the Arts | date=13 September 2006 }}
• Rembrandt – Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, 24 Feb – 18 June 2006
• A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, 26 Jun – 18 September 2006
• Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 8 Jul – 3 September 2006
• Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 September 2006 – 1 Jan 2007)
• Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November–December)
• Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 February 2006 (toured throughout UK)
• "Barely Legal" (Banksy)

{{See also|Category:2006 paintings|Category:2006 sculptures}}

• Magdalena Abakanowicz – Agora, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Gary Breeze – Bali Bombings Memorial, London
• Ed Carpenter – Tecotosh (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Brian Goldbloom – Festival Lanterns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Dan Graham – For Gordon Bunshaft (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
• David Hockney
• [http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.02.php Woldgate Woods, March 30 - April 21 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229225110/http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.02.php |date=29 December 2016 }}
• [http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.13.php Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229211656/http://www.hockneypictures.com/exhibitions/la.louver.march2007/yorkshire.13.php |date=29 December 2016 }}
• Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate aka "The Bean" (construction begun 2004 work finished 2006) at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/arts/design/20kenn.html|title = A Most Public Artist Polishes a New York Image|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 20 August 2006|last1 = Kennedy|first1 = Randy}}
• Mel Katz – Daddy Long Legs (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Gopal Swami Khetanchi
• Bani-Thani
• Devashree
• Frank Meisler – Kindertransport – The Arrival (sculpture, London)
• Asylum NYC{{cite web | url=https://www.humanhotel.com/2020/04/13/valeria-featured-host/ | title=We confined artists in an NYC detention center to spark a debate about US immigration | date=13 April 2020 }}
• Lovejoy Columns (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Statue of James Meredith

• 1 January – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (b.1921)
• 8 January – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.1918)
• 14 January – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.1939)
• 29 January – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (b.1932)
• 15 February – Joash Woodrow, English artist (b.1927)
• 23 February – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.1920)
• 4 March
• David Rose, American animator (b.1910)
• Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (b.1929)
• 7 March - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (b.1913)
• 9 March – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (b.1919)
• 25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.1950)
• 27 March – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.1925)
• 28 March – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.1928)

• 5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927)
• 15 April – Davidee Itulu, Inuk artist (b. 1929)
• 23 April – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (b.1936)
• 3 May – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (b.1921)
• 8 May – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b.1938)
• 9 May – Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (b.1924)
• 27 May – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928)

• 8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1944)
• 15 July – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.1905)
• 28 July – Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.1944)
• 1 August
• Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b.1965)
• Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b.1924)
• 4 August – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.1958)
• 20 August – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1911)
• 26 August – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.1913)
• 1 September – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.1918)
• 17 October – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.1940)
• 25;October -- Emilio Vedova, Italian painter (b. 1919)
• 26 November – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b.1943)
• 6 December – Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (b.1927)
• 16 December – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.1937)
• 18 December – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.1905)

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