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The year 2001 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• An estimated $100 million worth of art was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Public artwork accounted for around $10 million of this figure, which included works by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Roy Lichtenstein.
• A new wing in the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery of the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, is dedicated to the memory of Michel Kikoine.

Exhibitions

• Max Beckmann retrospective at the Pompidou Centre, Paris

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Nicholas Harding for John Bell as King Lear
• Beck's Futures - Tim Stoner
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Giuseppe Penone
• Turner Prize - Martin Creed for The lights going on and off.cghdh

Other Artworks

• Jeremy Deller - Battle of Orgreave
• Tracy Harris - Funnel

Deaths

• January 30 - O. Winston Link, photographer (b. 1914)
• February 18 - Balthus, painter (b. 1908)
• June 19 - David Sylvester, Art Critic and curator (b. 1924)
• November 19 - Marcelle Ferron, painter and stained-glass artist (b. 1924)