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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Full date unknown 2 Exhibitions 3 Works 4 Awards 5 Deaths

Events

• 13 February - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
• 9 March - The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
• 12 May - Opening of the Tate Modern in London.

Full date unknown

• Constantine Andreou receives the Légion d'honneur.

Exhibitions

• Felix Gonzalez-Torres retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, London
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Works

• Eduardo Chillida - Berlin

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Adam Cullen, Portrait of David Wenham
• Beck's Futures - Roderick Buchanan
• Turner Prize - Wolfgang Tillmans

Deaths

• 19 February - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b.1928).
• 26 February - Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b.1917).
• 26 April - Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (b.1936).
• 9 June - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b.1917).
• 25 August - Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b.1901).
• 19 September - Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b.1917).
• 4 December - Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b.1933).