The year 2006 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- Rembrandt 400 Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.
Awards
Exhibitions
- The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Jan 2-Dec 31, 2006
- All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Jan 26-Dec 31, 2006
- Rembrandt - Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, Feb 24-Jun 18, 2006
- A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, Jun 26-Sep 18, 2006
- Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Jul 8-Sep 3, 2006
- Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 Sep 2006—1 Jan 2007)
- Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November-December)
- Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 Feb 2006 (toured throughout UK)
Deaths
- January 1 - John Latham, Zambian artist (b. 1921)
- January 8 - Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist (b. 1918)
- January 29 - Nam June Paik,Korean video artist (b. 1932)
- February 15 - Joash Woodrow, painter (b. 1927)
- March 27 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, sculptor, gardener and writer (b. 1925)
- March 28 - Pro Hart, painter (b. 1928)
- April 5 - Allan Kaprow, art theorist (b. 1927)
- April 23 - Isaac Witkin, sculptor (b. 1936)
- May 3 - Karel Appel, painter (b. 1921)
- July 28 - Richard Mock, painter, graphic artist (b. 1944)
- August 1 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
- August 4 - Julio Galán, Mexican painter (b. 1958)
- August 26 - Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian pop-artist (b. 1913)
- September 1 - Sir Kyffin Williams, landscape painter (b. 1918)
- December 16 - Larry Zox, Color field, Lyrical Abstractionist painter (b. 1937)
- December 18 - Ruth Bernhard, photographer (b. 1905)
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