2005 in art

The year 2005 in art involved various significant events.

Events

June – Zentrum Paul Klee, a museum dedicated to Paul Klee, designed by Renzo Piano, opens in Bern, Switzerland.
September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Museum of Art Fakes opens in Vienna.
Banksy's Peckham Rock is installed surreptitiously in the British Museum (London) where it goes undetected for at least 3 days.^[1]

Aleksander Balos – Travaux récents (organised by Arts nord sud, at Espace Griffon, Crédit Municipal, Paris, France)

1 January – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (b.1938).
2 January – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator and painter (born 1922)
4 January
- Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual and teacher (b.1927).
- Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator and teacher (b.1914).
14 January
- Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (b.1912).
- Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b.1940).
25 January
- Philip Johnson, American major art collector, MoMA curator, influential architect (born 1906)
- Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (b.1923).
27 January
- Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (b.1919).
- Aurélie Nemours, French painter (b.1910).
7 February – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (b.1926).
18 February – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (b.1933).
21 February – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (b.1929).
15 March – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (b.1943).
20 March – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (b.1932).

5 April
- Dale Messick, first American woman syndicated comic strip artist (b.1906)^[7]
- Neil Welliver, American painter (b.1929)
10 April – Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (b.1911)
11 April – André François, French cartoonist (b.1915)
13 April
- Philip Pavia, American sculptor (b.1912)^[8]
- Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (b.1935)
19 April – Clement Meadmore, Australian-born American sculptor (b.1929)
22 April – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish-born sculptor and artist (b.1924)
27 May
- Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (b.1930)
- Fay Godwin, English landscape photographer (b.1931)
12 June – David Whitney, American independent curator and art dealer (b.1939)
21 June – Al Loving, African American abstract impressionist painter (b.1935)

22 July – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian painter (born 1943)
26 July – Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.1913)
27 July – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1928)
1 August – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (b.1920)
16 August – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (b.1960)
22 August – Juliet Pannett, English portrait artist (born 1911)
26 August – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b.1927)
22 October – Arman, French-born American artist (b.1928)
28 October – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (b.1926)
11 November – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b.1939)
2 December – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (born 1906)

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