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AWARDS

Archibald Prize - Wendy Sharpe

Wynne Prize - William Robinson , ''Creation landscape – earth and sea''

Turner Prize - Douglas Gordon

Jan Amos Comenius Medal ( UNESCO ) - Yaacov Agam , for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children

WORKS

''Dream City'' (Yorkshire Sculpture Park) - Anthony Caro

''Intensities and Surfaces'' - Anya Gallaccio

''This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home'' - Damien Hirst

''House 1'' - Roy Lichtenstein

EXHIBITIONS

Aleksander Balos - ''Clara Voce Cogito'', (Chastain Zollinger Gallery, Chicago)

British Art Show 5 - various venues in Manchester

''Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995'' - travelling exhibition by the Museum Of Modern Art, New York .

Ugo Nespolo - ''Le Stanze dell'Arte'', Turin

Vermeer - nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

DEATHS

January 6 - Duane Hanson , sculptor

February 20 - Audrey Munson , actress and artist's model

March 15 - Helen Chadwick , feminist artist

Joshua Compston - British Curator and Gallerist

April 14 - Mervyn Levy , artist and critic

October 23 - Lin Onus

Jane W. Steiner , painter

Felix Gonzalez-Torres