Timeline of art explained
This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also art periods. This list is exclusively for the visual arts; for music, see Timeline of musical events.
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2020s
- 2024 in art - Death of Hartmut Ritzerfeld, Alexis Smith, Kishin Shinoyama, Brent Sikkema, Robert Whitman, Carl Andre, Ricardo Pascale, Brian Griffin, Antonio Paolucci, Helga Paris, Melvin Way, Andrew Crispo, A. Ramachandran, Günter Brus, Aleš Lamr, Marc Pachter, Steve Paxton. Félix Aráuz, Iris Apfel, Pigcasso, Lucas Samaras, Akira Toriyama, Imogen Stuart, Robert Moskowitz. Richard Serra, Katsura Funakoshi, Marian Zazeela, Quisqueya Henríquez, Gaetano Pesce, Italo Rota, Ziraldo, Patti Astor, Trina Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Jean-Marie Haessle, Au Ho-nien, Zack Norman, Frank Stella, David Shapiro, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Katherine Porter, Joe Zucker, Roberta Marrero, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Noardman,Valery Chtak, Sanford L. Smith, Bertien van Manen, Jan van Munster, Ben Vautier, Lyons Brown Jr., Guy Warren, Barbara Gladstone, Martin Mull, Audrey Flack, Jacqueline de Jong, Manuel Cargaleiro, June Leaf, Thomas Hoepker, Bill Viola, André Juillard, Kasper König, Jaime Botín, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe 2023 in art - Death of Marilyn Stafford, Zhou Lingzhao, Lyuben Zidarov, Karim Bennani, Michael Snow, George S. Zimbel, Hans Belting, Nicola Zamboni, Alfred Leslie, Jesse Treviño, Ángela Gurría, Ans Westra, Mary Bauermeister, Camille Souter, Rafael Viñoly, Lou Stovall, Piero Gilardi, Ian Falconer, Phyllida Barlow, Francisco Rodón, Shamim Sikder, James Harithas, Vivan Sundaram, Myriam Ullens, Neal Boenzi, Ted Bonin, Al Jaffee, John Olsen, Eberhard Kornfeld, Ed Koren, Harold Riley, Ju Ming, Yvonne Jacquette, Frank Kozik, Kenneth Anger, Roy Lerner, Dorothy Knowles, Jorrit Tornquist, Ilya Kabakov, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Françoise Gilot, Graziano Origa, Cora Cohen, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Jan Sierhuis, Joop Sanders, Ales Pushkin, Fazil Najafov, Rubén Martínez Bulnes, Tony Bennett, Jesse Lott, Oswaldo Viteri, Giorgio Di Genova, Didier Lourenço, David Le Batard, Konrad Klapheck, Jamie Reid, Brice Marden, Claude Picasso, Mario Costa, Lisa Lyon, Fernando Botero, Erwin Olaf, Park Seo-bo, Gastón Ugalde, Juanita McNeely, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Ida Applebroog, Robert Irwin, Gord Smith, Joe Tilson, Radcliffe Bailey, Rob Krier, Larry Fink, William Anastasi, Wolfgang Hollegha, Paul Dibble, Vera Molnár, Graziella Magherini, Richard Hunt, Giovanni Anselmo, Imroz, William Pope.L, Martha Diamond
- 2022 in art - Death of Craig Ruddy, Ricardo Bofill, Tova Berlinski, Alekos Fassianos, Hossein Valamanesh, Andrei Mudrea, James Bidgood, Dan Lacey, John Wesley, Carmen Herrera, John Scott, Dan Graham, Marino Golinelli, DeWain Valentine, Srihadi Soedarsono, Antonio Seguí, Nick Zedd, Conrad Janis, Albert Kresch, Budi Tek, Mira Calix, Ted Mooney, Patrick Demarchelier, Eleanor Munro, Donald Baechler, Jerry Uelsmann, Hermann Nitsch, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Lewis Stein, Marcus Leatherdale, Enoch Kelly Haney, Ron Galella, Suzi Gablik, Enrique Metinides, Knox Martin, Bob Neuwirth, Miss.Tic, David Datuna, Samella Lewis, Claude Rutault Christopher Pratt, Jacques Villeglé, Paula Rego, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Heidi Horten, Duncan Hannah, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Harvey Dinnerstein, Arnold Skolnick, Sam Gilliam, Margaret Keane, David Blackwood, Matt King, Lily Safra, Maya Attoun, Claes Oldenburg, Emilie Benes Brzezinski, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Obering, Velichko Minekov, Issey Miyake, Natalia LL, Marta Palau Bosch, Dmitri Vrubel, Oliver Frey, Lily Renée, Charlie Finch, Jens Birkemose, Virginia Dwan, James Polshek, Jean-Luc Godard. Roxanne Lowit, Bill Hutson, Brigida Baltar, Billy Al Bengston, Grace Glueck, Harold Garde, Angus Trumble, Jüri Arrak, Jagoda Buić, Peter Schjeldahl, Rodney Graham, Laila Shawa, Pierre Soulages, Nicholas Harding, Brian O'Doherty, Lee Bontecou, Hervé Télémaque, Tom Phillips, Ashley Bickerton, Larry Qualls, Ronald Sherr, Judith Lauand, Philip Pearlstein, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Dorothy Iannone, Arata Isozaki, Tony Vaccaro
- 2021 in art - Death of Jan de Bie, Kim Tschang-yeul, Arik Brauer, Barry Le Va, Forrest Moses, Cindy Nemser, Bill Hammond, Luis Feito, James Bishop, Arturo Di Modica, Alan Bowness, Toko Shinoda, Barbara Ess, Duggie Fields, Elsa Peretti, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Gianluigi Colalucci, Jean Dupuy, Mary Beth Edelson, Hans Rasmus Astrup, William T. Wiley, Eli Broad, Julião Sarmento, Susanna Heller, Richard Nonas, Alain Kirili, Ingvar Cronhammar, Roser Bru, Dani Karavan, Judith Godwin, Jane Kaufman, Douglas S. Cramer, Tomás Llorens, Allen Midgette, Mogens Møller, Gérard Fromanger, Arnold Odermatt, Diego Cortez, Arturo Schwarz, Joseph Raffael, Christian Boltanski, Louise Fishman, Phillip King, Nancy Frankel, Ben Wagin, Yolanda López, Stanislav Hanzík, K. Schippers, Chuck Close, Yusuf Grillo, Billy Apple, Achille Pace, Lars Vilks, Julie L. Green, Margo Leavin, Paul Blanca, Manuel Neri, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Lía Bermúdez, Patrick Reyntiens, Iran Darroudi, Raoul Middleman, Bettina Grossman, Dave Hickey, Etel Adnan, Jimmie Durham, Mick Rock, Carlo Maria Mariani, Rita Letendre, Robert Bly, Virgil Abloh, Guillermo Roux, Lawrence Weiner, Eve Babitz, Richard Rogers, Wayne Thiebaud, Sabine Weiss
- 2020 in art - Death of John Baldessari, Akbar Padamsee, André Lufwa, Oswald Oberhuber, James Mollison, Hester Diamond, Jason Polan. Beverly Pepper, Anne Windfohr Marion, Jack Youngerman, Peter Dreher, Ulay, John Seward Johnson II, Wolf Kahn, Paul Kasmin, Maurice Berger, Idelle Weber, Dr. Evermor, Anne Hendricks Bass, David Driskell, Alexander Thynn, Helene Aylon, Daniel Greene, Mort Drucker, Gillian Wise, William H. Bailey, Glenna Goodacre, Markus Raetz, Peter Beard, Tina Girouard, Zarina, Germano Celant, Michael McClure, Iepe Rubingh, Cliff Eyland, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Emma Amos, Peter Alexander, Gracia Barrios, Christo, Manuel Felguérez, Luther Price, Anna Blume, Milton Glaser, Benedetto Robazza, Frank Popper, George Simon, Brigid Berlin, Keith Sonnier, Lotty Rosenfeld, Miodrag Živković, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Frank Wright, William Arnett, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Fern Cunningham, Ron Gorchov, Mrinal Haque, Pedro de Oraá, Douglas MacDiarmid, Siah Armajani, Jürgen Schadeberg, Philippe Daverio, Pierre Nahon, Franco Maria Ricci, Donald Kendall, Robert Bechtle, Kenzo Takada, Geoffrey Dyer, Jean Cardot, Chris Killip, David Geiser, Lea Vergine, Diane Di Prima, Mohammed Melehi, Sindika Dokolo, Piero Simondo, Aldo Tambellini, Sheldon Solow, Daniel Cordier, Helen LaFrance, Suh Se-ok, Jackie Saccoccio, James Havard, Barbara Rose, David Medalla
2010s
- 2019 in art - Death of Francine du Plessix Gray, John Mason, Jonas Mekas, Susan Hiller, Robert Ryman, Alessandro Mendini, Marella Angelli, Kevin Roche, Carolee Schneemann, Martín Chirino, Sir John Richardson, Okwui Enwezor, Luca Alinari, Barbara Hammer, Hedi Turki, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Claude Lalanne, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Jayne Wrightsman, Mavis Pusey, Thomas Nozkowski, Lutz Bacher, Nobuo Sekine, Jamil Naqsh, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Carroll, Everett Kinstler, Tony DeLap, Joe Overstreet, Adela Neffa, Joyce Pensato, Maryon Kantaroff, Martin Roth, Suzan Pitt, Charles Ginnever, Robert Therrien, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Selz, Sascha Pohflepp, David Koloane, Leon Kossoff, Douglas Crimp, Steve Cannon, Frieder Burda, Marisa Merz, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Wang Guodong, Peter Lindbergh, Francisco Toledo, Robert Frank, Daniel Johnston, Huguette Caland, Matthew Wong, John Giorno, Ettore Spalletti, E. A. Carmean, Charles Jencks, Adolfo Mexiac, Stefan Edlis, Edward Clark, Huang Yong Ping, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Rina Lazo, Manoucher Yektai, Johann Eyfells, May Stevens, Ken Heymann, Emily Mason, PHASE 2, Panamarenko, Alasdair Gray, Syd Mead, Oliviero Leonardi
- 2018 in art - Death of Mauro Staccioli, Betty Woodman, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Carlo Pedretti, Kynaston McShine, William Scharf, Ed Moses, Jack Whitten, Robert Pincus-Witten, Sonia Gechtoff, Frank Gaylord, Gillian Ayres, Marcia Hafif, Per Kirkeby, Tom Wolfe, Robert Indiana, Alan Bean, Gregg Juarez, Malcolm Morley, Irving Sandler, Michaele Vollbracht, David Goldblatt. Sabina Ott, Krishna Reddy, Paul Taylor, Irving Petlin, Tchan Fou-li, Annette Michelson, Robert Venturi, Geta Brătescu, Henry Wessel Jr., Jane Fortune, Helena Almeida, Milton Gendel,.Mel Ramos, Paul Allen, Jacques Monory, Harold Stevenson, Karl-Heinz Adler, Stan Lee, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Peter Peryer, Robert Morris, Vivian Lynn, Enrico Crispolti, Wendy Beckett, Jean Dumontier
- 2017 in art - Death of John Berger, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Ciel Bergman, Charles Recher, Moshe Gershuni, Dore Ashton, Harvey Lichtenstein, Jannis Kounellis, Sofia Imber, Fritz Koenig, Ren Hang, Gustav Metzger, Howard Hodgkin, Trisha Brown, David Rockefeller, George Woodman, Mirella Bentivoglio, Julian Stanczak, James Rosenquist, Glenn O'Brien, Barkley L. Hendricks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Vito Acconci, A. R. Penck, Michael Zwack, Jack Tilton, Felipe Ehrenberg, Marie Cosindas, Trento Longaretti, Edit DeAk, Khadija Saye, Olbram Zoubek, Hans Breder, José Luis Cuevas, Lala Rukh, Kenneth Jay Lane, Arlene Gottfried, John Ashberry, Arno Rink, Pierre Bergé, Pete Turner, David Shepherd, Eleanore Mikus, Robert Delpire, Holly Block, Fernando de Szyszlo, Richard Hambleton, Linda Nochlin, Trevor Bell, Frans Krajcberg, Enrico Castellani, Ivan Chermayeff, Lewis Manilow, Tim Rollins
- 2016 in art - Death of David Bowie, Thornton Dial, Charles Garabedian, Douglas Haynes, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Zaha Hadid, Richard Smith, Charles Gatewood, Marisol Escobar, Louisa Chase, Bill Berkson, Kenworth Moffett, Tony Feher, Bill Cunningham, Ben Patterson, Billy Name, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Goings, Shirley Jaffe, Walter Darby Bannard, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Klaus Kertess, David Antin, Leonard Cohen, Kenneth Snelson, Tyrus Wong 2015 in art - Death of Milton Hebald, Jane Wilson, Walter Liedtke, John C. Whitehead, Tomie Ohtake, Sheila Girling, Carel Visser, William King, Michael Graves, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Paule Anglim, Sargy Mann, Lars Tunbjörk, Judith Malina, Menashe Kadishman, Chris Burden, Rachel Rosenthal, Rosemarie Castoro, Mary Ellen Mark, Miriam Schapiro, David Aronson, Ingrid Sischy, Sally Gross, Melva Bucksbaum, Nelson Shanks, John Perreault, Brian Sewell, Paul Reed, Wojciech Fangor, Holly Woodlawn, George Earl Ortman, Ellsworth Kelly
- 2014 in art - Death of R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., Madeline Gins, Douglas Davis, René Ricard, Joan Mondale, Nancy Holt, Terry Adkins, Lyman Kipp, Leee Black Childers, Alan Davie, Maria Lassnig, Elaine Sturtevant, H. R. Giger, Robyn Denny, Ultra Violet, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, On Kawara, Otto Piene, Sam Hunter, Edward Leffingwell, Marjorie Strider, David Armstrong, Wynn Chamberlain, Jane Freilicher, Jake Berthot
- 2013 in art - Death of Ted Godwin, Ada Louise Huxtable, Alden Mason, Richard Artschwager, William Perehudoff, Thomas McEvilley, Merton Simpson, Carlos Villa, Zao Wou Ki, David Hayes, Taylor Mead, Thomas M. Messer, Fred Mitchell, Ganesh Pyne, Sarah Charlesworth, Bert Stern, John B. Hightower, Ronnie Cutrone, Walter De Maria, Ruth Asawa, Stephen Antonakos, John Bellany, Jack Beal, Ellen Lanyon, Deborah Turbeville, Sir Anthony Caro, Arthur Danto, Lou Reed, Frank Lobdell, Chryssa
- 2012 in art - Death of Jan Groover, Dorothea Tanning, Mike Kelley, Antoni Tàpies, Theophilus Brown, Anita Steckel, Kenneth Price, Hilton Kramer, Elizabeth Catlett, Louis le Brocquy, John Golding, Bram Bogart, Paul Jenkins, Georges Mathieu, LeRoy Neiman, Mary Fedden, Ivan Karp, Herbert Vogel, Karl Benjamin, Robert Hughes, Michael Asher, Will Barnet, William Turnbull, Jeffrey Potter, Edward Meneeley
- 2011 in art - Death of B. H. Friedman, Ellen Stewart, Dennis Oppenheim, Françoise Cachin, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Stephen De Staebler, Hedda Sterne, John McCracken, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, M. F. Husain, Jack Smith, Thomas N. Armstrong III, Robert Miller, Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Budd Hopkins, Jeanette Ingberman, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Mueller, Pat Passlof, Gerald Laing, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler
- 2010 in art - Death of Kenneth Noland, Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, Robert Natkin, Purvis Young, Deborah Remington, Giuseppe Panza, Avigdor Arikha, Craig Kauffman, Shusaku Arakawa, Dennis Hopper, Lester Johnson, Louise Bourgeois, Sigmar Polke, Paul Thiebaud, Doug Ohlson, Nicolas Carone, Corneille, Ralph T. Coe, Stephen Pace, Robert Goodnough, Sylvia Sleigh, Jack Levine, Nathan Oliveira, Nassos Daphnis, Don Van Vliet, Roy Neuberger
2000s
- 2009 in art – Death of Coosje van Bruggen, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Kanovitz, Max Neuhaus, Ernest Trova, Hanne Darboven, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Colescott, Dash Snow, Merce Cunningham, Tony Rosenthal, Hyman Bloom, Barry Flanagan, Richard Merkin, Charles Seliger, Nancy Spero, Roy DeCarava, Robert Borgatta, Irving Kriesberg, Jeanne-Claude, Peter Forakis, Thomas Hoving 2008 in art – Death of William Brice, Kahlil Gibran, Dorothy Podber, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, John Plumb, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet, Grace Hartigan, Jan Krugier, Guy Peellaert, Willoughby Sharp, Robert Graham
- 2007 in art – Death of Dan Christensen, Jules Olitski, Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Salvatore Scarpitta, Elizabeth Murray, Edward Avedisian, André Emmerich, Lenore Tawney, R. B. Kitaj, Ileana Sonnabend, Paul Brach, Robert Kulicke, Michael Goldberg, Ismail Gulgee, Herman Rose
- 2006 in art – Death of William Rubin, Mimmo Rotella, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Karel Appel, Richard Mock, Jason Rhoades, Julio Galán, Marcia Tucker, Emilio Vedova, Robert Rosenblum, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard,
- 2005 in art – Death of Philip Johnson, David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, Walter Hopps, Philip Pavia, Neil Welliver, R. C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, Clement Meadmore, and Arman; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park;
- 2004 in art – Death of Ward Jackson, Leon Golub, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cleve Gray, Agnes Martin, Muriel Berman, Tom Wesselmann 2003 in art – Death of Al Hirschfeld, Kirk Varnedoe, Wally Hedrick, Emerson Woelffer, Dorothy Miller, Lynn Chadwick
- 2002 in art – Death of Inge Morath, Peter Voulkos, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice
- 2001 in art – Death of Fred Hughes, Balthus, David Sylvester, Mercedes Matter, O. Winston Link, Hollis Sigler
- 2000 in art – Death of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Edward Gorey, Jacob Lawrence, Stanley Boxer, Leonard Baskin, Gregory Gillespie; Hans Moller
1990s
- 1999 in art – Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick, Stephen Greene
- 1998 in art – Death of Richard Bellamy, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, John Krushenick, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize
- 1997 in art – Death of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Golden, Theodoros Stamos, Philip Berman
- 1996 in art – Death of Duane Hanson, Dan Flavin, William Copley
- 1995 in art – Death of Daniel Robbins, Charles Bell, Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves,, Al Hansen
- 1994 in art – Death of Donald Judd, Robert Doisneau, Clement Greenberg, Henry Geldzahler, Anni Albers, Paul Delvaux, Sam Francis, Leigh Bowery
- 1993 in art – Death of Hannah Wilke, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert De Niro, Sr., Thomas Ammann, Leonard Bocour; Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize
- 1992 in art – Death of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, John Cage, Peyo
- 1991 in art – Death of Robert Motherwell, Jean Tinguely, Leland Bell, Dr. Seuss, Berenice Abbott
- 1990 in art – Death of Henrietta Berk, Keith Haring, Erté, Joan Brown
1980s
- 1989 in art – Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo, Sidney Janis
- 1988 in art – Death of Ronald Bladen, Neil Williams, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Constantino Nivola, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald De Lue
- 1987 in art – Death of Alexander Iolas, Andy Warhol, Jean Hélion, André Masson, Raphael Soyer
- 1986 in art – Death of Edward Biberman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Jane Frank
- 1985 in art – Death of Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, André Kertész, Ana Mendieta; Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
- 1984 in art – Death of Jimmy Ernst, Hollis Frampton, Ansel Adams, Sir Roland Penrose, Lee Krasner, Brassaï, Edward James
- 1983 in art – Death of Hergé, Chang Dai-chien, Kenneth Clark, Joan Miró
- 1982 in art – Death of Wifredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
- 1981 in art – Death of Francesca Woodman, Isaac Soyer, Max Spivak, Isaac Frenkel Frenel; Birth of Miru Kim
- 1980 in art – Death of Cecil Beaton, Albert Kotin, Oskar Kokoschka, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Tamara de Lempicka; Pablo Picasso major retrospective exhibition at Museum of Modern Art (New York)
1970s
- 1979 in art – Death of Nelson Rockefeller, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Delaunay
- 1978 in art – Death of Thomas B. Hess, Norman Rockwell, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Kallir
- 1977 in art – Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo. Centre Pompidou opens
- 1976 in art – Birth of Jay Simeon; Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Burra
- 1975 in art – Birth of Alick Tipoti; Death of Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Barbara Hepworth
- 1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb
- 1973 in art – Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Robert Smithson; the first Whitney Biennial
- 1972 in art – Death of M. C. Escher, Joseph Cornell
- 1971 in art – Death of I. Rice Pereira
- 1970 in art – Birth of Jenny Saville; Death of Rita Angus, Mark Rothko, Fritz Ascher, Eva Hesse, Roberto Longhi, Barnett Newman
1960s
- 1969 in art – Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
- 1968 in art – Death of Marcel Duchamp, Kees van Dongen. Birth of Jules Trobaugh
- 1967 in art – Death of Edward Hopper, René Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
- 1966 in art – Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, Edward Le Bas, The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology.
- 1965 in art – Death of Milton Avery, David Smith (sculptor), Le Corbusier; Birth of Damien Hirst and Yushaev Zamir
- 1964 in art – Death of Rico Lebrun, Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis
- 1963 in art – Death of Georges Braque; Pop Art becomes increasingly popular; Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread
- 1962 in art – Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, International exhibition of The New Realists in New York
- 1961 in art – Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis
- 1960 in art – Death of David Park and Dean Cornwell; Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, and David Neel. As public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular
1950s
- 1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
- 1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans
- 1957 in art – Death of David Bomberg, Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats; Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- 1956 in art – Birth of David D. Stern, Death of Marie Laurencin, Jackson Pollock
- 1955 in art – Birth of Beau Dick, Jeff Koons, Akira Toriyama; Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
- 1954 in art – Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
- 1953 in art – Death of Raoul Dufy, John Marin, Francis Picabia; Birth of Gidansda Guujaaw
- 1952 in art – Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction
- 1951 in art – Birth of Richard Hunt and Joe Nalo; Death of Wols, Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of abstract expressionism.
- 1950 in art – Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm https://web.archive.org/web/20061021213144/http://www.sissa.it/~fonte/New%20York%20City/Arte%20Contemporanea/HPIM0177.JPG
1940s
- 1949 in art – Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II
- 1948 in art – Birth of Eric Fischl, Hollis Sigler, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
- 1947 in art – Birth of Ronnie Landfield and James Schoppert; Death of Pierre Bonnard, Wilhelm Uhde, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century gallery
- 1946 in art – Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, and Robert Davidson; Death of Arthur Dove
- 1945 in art – Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato, death of René Gimpel
- 1944 in art – Birth of Odd Nerdrum, Timothy Akis, and Mathias Kauage; Death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- 1943 in art – Death of Chaïm Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Camille Claudel, Maurice Denis, Beatrix Potter, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
- 1942 in art – Death of Séraphine Louis, Birth of Dan Christensen and Tony Hunt Sr.; Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century gallery
- 1941 in art – Birth of Bruce Nauman, Dale Chihuly, Death of Robert Delaunay
- 1940 in art – Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard
1930s
- 1939 in art – Birth of Spider Martin
- 1938 in art – Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, and Nathan Jackson; Death of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Glackens
- 1937 in art – Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Larry Poons, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica and The Weeping Woman; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist
- 1936 in art – Birth of Richard Estes, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella,
- 1935 in art – Birth of Jim Dine, Don McCullin, Death of Charles Demuth, Paul Signac
- 1934 in art – Birth of Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland
- 1933 in art – Birth of Sam Gilliam, Yoko Ono, Franco Fontana, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin
- 1932 in art – Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell
- 1931 in art – Death of Helmut Kolle, Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann, Salvador Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory
- 1930 in art – Birth of Jasper Johns, Death of Jules Pascin, Grant Wood paints American Gothic
1920s
- 1929 in art – Death of Louisine Havemeyer, Charles Grafly, Birth of Jules Feiffer, Claes Oldenburg, Nicholas Krushenick, Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo, the Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City, René Magritte produces La trahison des images
- 1928 in art – Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt
- 1927 in art – Death of Paul César Helleu, Juan Gris, Osmar Schindler, Armand Guillaumin, Eugene Atget, Birth of John Chamberlain, Wolf Kahn
- 1926 in art – Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet
- 1925 in art – Death of George Bellows; Birth of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, and Freda Diesing
- 1924 in art – Birth of Kenneth Noland, André Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal
- 1923 in art – Death of Elihu Vedder, Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Duchamp completes The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
- 1922 in art – Birth of Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Klee produces Twittering Machine
- 1921 in art – Piet Mondrian completes Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
- 1920 in art – Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, and Bill Reid; Death of Amedeo Modigliani
1910s
- 1919 in art – Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus
- 1918 in art – Birth of Elaine de Kooning, Jane Frank; Death of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
- 1917 in art – Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth; Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Louis Édouard Fournier, Marcel Duchamp produces Fountain
- 1916 in art – Birth of Louis le Brocquy and Ellen Neel; Death of Thomas Eakins; Dadaism started in Zürich
- 1915 in art – Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden
- 1914 in art – Birth of Nicolas de Staël, O. Winston Link
- 1913 in art – Birth of Wols, Birth of Robert Capa, Ad Reinhardt, The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- 1912 in art – Birth of Morris Louis, Robert Doisneau, Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin, Tony Smith
- 1911 in art
- 1910 in art – Birth of Franz Kline, Death of Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer
1900s
- 1909 in art – Death of Pinckney Marcius-Simons, Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism
- 1908 in art – Death of Giovanni Fattori, Richard Gerstl, Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School first exhibit
- 1907 in art – Birth of Frida Kahlo, Leo Castelli, Charles Alston, Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- 1906 in art – Henri Matisse paints Le bonheur de vivre; Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith
- 1905 in art – Birth of Ruth Bernhard, Barnett Newman, Fauvists first exhibit; Henri Matisse paints Woman with a Hat
- 1904 in art – Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí
- 1903 in art – Birth of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Graham Sutherland, Joseph Cornell, Death of Paul Gauguin, Hans Gude, Camille Pissarro, James McNeill Whistler, First Salon d'Automne
- 1902 in art – Birth of Ansel Adams, I. Rice Pereira, Death of Albert Bierstadt, Death of James Tissot, Rodin's The Thinker cast
- 1901 in art – Birth of Alberto Giacometti, Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso's Blue Period begins
- 1900 in art – Birth of Yves Tanguy, Death of Frederic Edwin Church
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- 1899 in art – Death of Alfred Sisley, Birth of Isaac Frenkel Frenel
- 1898 in art – Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, René Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim, and Carrie Bethel
- 1897 in art – Paul Gauguin paints Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- 1896 in art – Death of John Everett Millais
- 1895 in art – Death of Berthe Morisot
- 1894 in art – Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, Death of Gustave Caillebotte
- 1893 in art – Birth of Joan Miró, Chaïm Soutine, Fritz Ascher, Edvard Munch completes The Scream
- 1892 in art – Paul Gauguin paints When Will You Marry?; Birth of Stuart Davis
- 1891 in art – Death of Georges-Pierre Seurat, Birth of Max Ernst, Otto Dix, George Ault
- 1890 in art – Death of Vincent van Gogh, Birth of Giorgio Morandi, Paul Strand, Egon Schiele, Naum Gabo
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- 1889 in art – Birth of Thomas Hart Benton, Rodin's The Burghers of Calais cast
- 1888 in art – Birth of Joseph Csaky, Josef Albers, Seán Keating, Giorgio de Chirico, Death of James Jackson Jarves; Vincent van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema paints The Roses of Heliogabalus
- 1887 in art – Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko, Andrew Dasburg, August Macke, Death of Hippolyte Bayard
- 1886 in art – Birth of Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Clément Serveau
- 1885 in art – Birth of Jules Pascin, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Roger de La Fresnaye
- 1884 in art – Birth of Amedeo Modigliani and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; Georges Seurat paints Bathers at Asnières; Juan Luna paints the Spoliarium
- 1883 in art – Birth of Jean Metzinger, Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Gino Severini, Death of Gustave Doré, Édouard Manet
- 1882 in art – Birth of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georges Braque, Auguste Herbin, Umberto Boccioni. Édouard Manet paints A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
- 1881 in art – Birth of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Henri Le Fauconnier, Carlo Carrà, Max Pechstein, Albert Gleizes
- 1880 in art – Birth of Hans Hofmann, Jacob Epstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Derain, Arthur Dove, Tobeen. Death of Anselm Feuerbach; Anton Mauve completes Changing Pasture; Black Hawk begins a series of 76 ledger drawings.
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- 1879 in art – Birth of Edward Steichen, Paul Klee, and Mungo Martin; Death of Honoré Daumier, Thomas Couture, George Caleb Bingham, Joseph Severn, William Morris Hunt
- 1878 in art – Birth of Augustus John, Mary Cassatt paints Portrait of the Artist, James Whistler sues John Ruskin for libel
- 1877 in art – Birth of Marsden Hartley, Kees van Dongen, Death of Gustave Courbet
- 1876 in art – Birth of August Sander
- 1875 in art – Death of Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- 1874 in art – First Impressionist Exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon
- 1873 in art – Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes; Birth of Willie Seaweed
- 1872 in art – Birth of Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise
- 1871 in art – Birth of Jack Butler Yeats, Death of Paul Kane, Whistler's Mother
- 1870 in art – Birth of William Glackens, John Marin, and Lucy Telles
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- 1069 in art
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- 1061 in art – Cui Bai paints Double Happiness
- 1060 in art
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- 1037 in art – Birth of Su Shi
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2nd Millennium BC in art
- 1050 BC – The Dunaverney flesh-hook
- 1100 BC – The Stele of Untash Napirisha and the Chinese Ritual wine server
- 1200 BC – Stone sculptures at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
- 1264 BC – The Abu Simbel temples are founded.
- 1300 BC – The Caergwrle Bowl; the Treasure of Villena; the Nefertiti Bust; the death mask and throne of Tutankhamen; the Statue of Queen Napir-Asu; the Houmuwu ding
- 1370 BC – The Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro
- 1400 BC – Anon., ; The Luxor Temple is built; the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut; the astronomical ceiling of Senemut Tomb; statue of Thutmose III is built; La Parisienne, and the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus of Minoan Crete; the Trundholm sun chariot; the Langstrup belt plate
- 1450 BC – The Bull-Leaping Fresco, the Pylos Combat Agate, and the Palaikastro Kouros
- 1500 BC – The Mycenaean palace amphora with octopus, Mask of Agamemnon, the Theseus Ring, the Balkåkra Ritual Object, and the Sword of Ommerschans
- 1550 BC – Prince of the Lilies and the Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
- 1600 BC – The Gold Diadem of Caravaca, the Minoan snake goddess figurines, the Minoan Bull-leaper, the Vaphio cups, the Da He ding, and the Shi zun
- 1650 BC – The Hüseyindede vases
- 1700 BC – Poverty Point constructed in Louisiana; the Akrotiri Boxer Fresco; the Rillaton Gold Cup
- 1750 BC – The Hove amber cup
- 1760 BC – The Pyramid of Khendjer
- 1791 BC – The Pyramid of Ameny Qemau
- 1796 BC – The Bust of Amenemhat V
- 1800 BC – The Nebra Sky Disc, the Sword of Jutphaas, the Malia Pendant, the Investiture of Zimri-Lim, the Thun-Renzenbühl axe, the Burney Relief, and the potbelly sculptures of Pre-Olmec Mesoamerica.
- 1802 BC – The Northern Mazghuna pyramid
- 1806 BC – The Southern Mazghuna pyramid and the Statue of Sobekneferu
- 1814 BC – The Black Pyramid
- 1839 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret III
- 1850 BC – The Aegina Treasure
- 1860 BC – The Pedestals of Biahmu
- 1878 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret II
- 1895 BC – The White Pyramid
- 1900 BC – Karnak Temple Complex; the Mold gold cape; the Bush Barrow gold lozenge
- 1926 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret I
- 1961 BC – William the Faience Hippopotamus
- 1962 BC – The Pyramid of Amenemhat I
- 2000 BC – Cashtal yn Ard, the Priest-King, Woman Riding Two Bulls, and the Angono Petroglyphs in the Philippines
3rd Millennium BC in art
- 2049 BC – Seahenge
- 2050 BC – The Ziggurat of Ur, the Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati, the Limestone Statue of the Steward Mery, and the Limestone Stela of Tjetji
- 2090 BC – The Statue of Iddi-Ilum
- 2150 BC – The Saint-Bélec slab
- 2184 BC – The Pyramid of Pepi II
- 2200 BC – The Statues of Gudea and the Alaca Höyük bronze standards
- 2250 BC – The Bassetki Statue and the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
- 2270 BC – The Statue of Manishtushu
- 2278 BC – The Pyramid of Merenre
- 2287 BC – The Pyramid of Pepi I
- 2300 BC – The Labbacallee wedge tomb, the Senegambian stone circles, the Hurrian foundation pegs, the Dancing Girl, the Anubanini rock relief, the Pömmelte ring sanctuary, and the Coggalbeg hoard
- 2333 BC – The Pyramid of Teti
- 2345 BC – The Pyramid of Unas
- 2350 BC – The Pashupati Seal
- 2385 BC – The Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
- 2420 BC – The Headless Pyramid
- 2430 BC – The Pyramid of Nyuserre
- 2450 BC – The Statuette of Neferefre and the Pyramid of Neferefre
- 2455 BC – The Pyramid of Neferirkare
- 2475 BC – The Pyramid of Sahure
- 2490 BC – The Pyramid of Userkaf
- 2500 BC – The Statue of Ebih-Il; Silbury Hill is constructed; the Kernosivsky idol; the Mastabat al-Fir'aun
- 2510 BC – The Pyramid of Menkaure
- 2530 BC – The Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan
- 2550 BC – The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, Khafre Enthroned, the Lyres of Ur, and the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
- 2560 BC – The Pyramid of Djedefre and the Sphinx of Hetepheres II
- 2570 BC – The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Khufu Statuette
- 2575 BC – The Red Pyramid
- 2600 BC – Standard of Ur is created; Stele of the Vultures; Ram in a Thicket; the Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel; the Copper Bull; the Bent Pyramid
- 2630 BC – The Layer Pyramid
- 2645 BC – The Buried Pyramid
- 2670 BC – The Pyramid of Djoser is built;
- 2800 BC – The Vučedol dove
- 2900 BC – The Tell Asmar Hoard and the Stele of Ushumgal
- 2985 BC – The MacGregor plaque
- 3000 BC – Stonehenge, King Orry's Grave, and Avebury are estimated to have been constructed; the Sieben Steinhäuser stones are erected; cave paintings at Dhambalin in Somalia; the Guennol Lioness; the Nevsha Stele
Neolithic
- 3100 BC – Mask of Warka, earliest surviving depiction of human face is built; Proto-Elamite Kneeling Bull with Vessel; the Battlefield Palette, the Bull Palette, the Hunters Palette, the Blau Monuments, the Scorpion Macehead, the Narmer Palette and the Narmer Macehead
- 3150 BC – The Tarxien Temples are built.
- 3200 BC – Newgrange and Knowth are formed; the Warka Vase
- 3300 BC – The Four Dogs Palette, the Tell Brak Head, and the Uruk Trough
- 3400 BC – The Bronocice pot
- 3450 BC – The Gebel el-Arak Knife
- 3500 BC – Rock paintings at Laas Geel; the El-Amra clay model of cattel; the Nahal Mishmar hoard in the Levant; Watson Brake in Louisiana
- 3600 BC – The Mnajdra on the isle of Malta; The Ġgantija temple on the island of Gozo; Rock art at Züschen
- 3700 BC – The Ħaġar Qim temple.
- 4000 BC – Rock paintings at Twyfelfontein; Creevykeel Court Tomb in Ireland; Rock art at Sabu-Jaddi
- 4200 BC – Poulnabrone dolmen is erected in Ireland; the Rock carvings at Alta are made
- 4500 BC – The Carnac stones are erected in France.
- 4700 BC – The Locmariaquer megaliths are erected in France.
- 4800 BC – The cairn of Barnenez and the Tumulus of Bougon
- 4900 BC – The Goseck Circle
- 5000 BC – Sydney rock engravings and the Stone circles of Hong Kong
- 5500 BC – The rock engravings of Oued Djerat
- 5700 BC – The Goddess on the Throne
- 6000 BC – The Bangudae Petroglyphs
- 7000 BC – Tradition of making Plaster Skulls in Jericho and 'Ain Ghazal in the Levant; rock paintings at the Tibesti Mountains
- 7500 BC – Stone circle at Nabta Playa
- 8000 BC – Paintings at Roca dels Moros, the Cueva de las Manos, and the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica; the rock paintings at Tadrart Rouge, the Coso Rock Art District, and the Apollo 11 Cave; the Edakkal caves petroglyphs; the Cooper Bison skull
- 9000 BC – Engraving of Dabous Giraffes in Niger; Göbekli Tepe; the Ain Sakhri figurine; rock paintings at Caverna da Pedra Pintada and the Toquepala Caves; Wurdi Youang; Urfa Man; the Venus of Monruz
- 10,000 BC – The Wolverine pendant of Les Eyzies; First paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer, the Bhimbetka rock shelters, Tambun cave, and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings; the Shigir Idol; the Robin Hood Cave Horse
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- 13,000 BC – Engravings in the Cave of the Trois-Frères, most notably The Sorcerer (cave art); Swimming Reindeer
- 15,000 BC – Paintings created at Lascaux and Creswell Crags
- 16,000 BC – Badanj Cave engravings
- 17,000 BC – Paintings at Grotte de Gabillou
- 19,000 BC – Rock paintings at Namadgi National Park
- 20,000 BC – Bison Licking Insect Bite created at la Madeleine in France; Venus of Laussel; The paintings at the Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley, Siega Verde, Serra da Capivara, and the Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
- 21,000 BC – The Venus figurines of Mal'ta and the Venus of Buret'
- 22,000 BC – Cave paintings at Tsodilo and the Venus of Moravany
- 23,000 BC – The Venus of Savignano
- 25,000 BC – Venus of Brassempouy; the cave paintings of Pech Merle
- 26,000 BC – The Venus of Lespugue
- 27,000 BC – The paintings at Cosquer Cave.
- 28,000 BC – Venus of Willendorf and the Venus of Galgenberg; the paintings at the Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure, Gabarnmung, and HaYonim Cave
- 29,000 BC – The Venus of Dolní Věstonice
- 30,000 BC – paintings at Chauvet Cave in France; Löwenmensch figurine
- 35,600 BC – paintings at the Cave of Altamira; the Venus of Hohle Fels
- 40,000 BC – Mask of la Roche-Cotard created by neanderthal; Pre-Estuarine Tradition begins at Ubirr in northern Australia; cave paintings at Lubang Jeriji Saléh and the Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst in Indonesia; the Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave; and the figurines from Vogelherd Cave
- 45,000 BC – Rock paintings at Murujuga
- 50,000 BC – The Giant deer bone of Einhornhöhle
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