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Events
- 18 March – Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007[update]) have not been recovered.
- 6 April – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Centre, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
- 15 May – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
Awards
Exhibitions
British Art Show at Hayward Gallery includes work by Young British Artists
Works
- Peine Del Viento XVII - Eduardo Chillida
- Meaning and Location - Douglas Gordon
- A Thousand Years - Damien Hirst
- September Defeat - Tadeusz Kantor
Deaths
January to June
- 22 January - Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b.1897).
- 16 February - Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (b.1958).
- 21 April - Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (b.1892).
- 30 June - Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (b.1932).
July to December
- 18 July - Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b.1957).
- 23 July - Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b.1899).
- 25 July - Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (b.1905).
- 14 October - Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (b.1924).
- 26 October - Joan Brown, American figurative painter (b.1938).
- 8 December - Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (b.1915).
- 23 December - Serge Danot, French animator (b.1931).
Full date unknown
- Daniel du Janerand, French painter (b.1919).
- Fuller Potter, American Abstract expressionist artist (b.1910).