2003 in art

Events

*11 May – Benvenuto Cellini's "Saliera" is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
*November - Gustav Klimt's "Landhaus am Attersee" sells for $29,128,000.

Full date unknown

*Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art.

Exhibitions

*James Sanborn, "Critical Assembly", Corcoran School of Art

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Geoffrey Dwyer, "a portrait of Richard Flanagan"
*Beck's Futures - Rosalind Nashashibi
*Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Susan Rothenberg
*Turner Prize - Grayson Perry
*Wynne Prize - Tim Kyle, "Seated Figure"

Works

*Tony Cragg - "Stainless Steel Pillar"

Deaths

January to March

*20 January - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903).
*21 January - Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913).
*27 January - Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915).
*2 February - Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914).
*10 February - Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910).
*14 March - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945).

April to June

*9 April - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908).
*16 April - Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909).
*23 April - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910).
*13 May - Jef Friboulet, French painter and sculptor (b.1919).
*29 May - Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930).
*7 June - Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920).

July to September

*15 August - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946).
*21 August - Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963).
*29 August - Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919).
*1 September - Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915).

October to December

*3 October - William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907).
*16 October - Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919).
*9 November - Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925).
*15 December - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923).
*17 December - Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928).