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Events
Exhibitions
Awards
- Caldecott Medal - Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Doug Moran National Portrait Prize - Fiona Lowry
- Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Mona Hatoum
- Turner Prize nominees - Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes.
Deaths
January to March
- 3 January - Joan Gillchrest, 89, British painter.
- 2 February - Roger Testu, French cartoonist (b.1913).
- 3 March - William Brice, American painter and teacher (b.1921).
- 11 March - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (b.1955).
- 19 March - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (b.1929).
- 28 March - Michael Podro, English art historian (b.1931).
- 29 March - Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b.1966).
- 29 March - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (b.1929).
April to June
- 3 April - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929).
- 9 April - Burt Glinn, American photographer (b.1925).
- 14 April - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b.1912).
- 16 April - Joseph Solman, American painter (b.1909).
- 23 April - Paul Wonner, American painter (b.1920).
- 25 April - Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (b.1909).
- 10 May - Herbert Albert, 82, British painter and etcher.
- 12 May - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b.1925).
- 15 May - Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (b.1921).
- 18 May - Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (b.1921).
- 21 May - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (b.1931).
- 23 May - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (b.1918).
- 28 May - Beryl Cook, English painter (b.1926).
- 1 June - Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (b.1940).
- 1 June - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b.1936).
- 18 June - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (b.1915).
July to December
- 7 July - Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (b.1933).
- 7 July - Fred Yates, English artist (b.1922).
- 1 August - Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (b.1922).
- 12 August - Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (b.1933).
- 18 August - Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (b.1917).
- 23 August - John Russell, British American art critic (b.1919).
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