Events
- May 31 - Jaume Plensa's concrete sculpture Dream is unveiled at a former colliery site in Sutton, St Helens, England.
- September 24 - René Magritte's painting Olympia (a nude portrait of his wife) is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels, by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about $1.1 million.
- Tim Burton's drawings are compiled and published under the name The Art of Tim Burton.
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards in New York.
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