2001 - Art

Art

Painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) dies at his chalet in La Rossinière outside Gstadd, Switzerland, February 18, at age 92.

Sculpture: Prince of Homburg by Frank Stella, now 64. Sculptor Juan Muñoz dies of a heart attack on the Spanish island of Ibiza August 28 at age 48.

St. Louis gets a new $17 million art museum designed by Japanese architect Tadeo Ando to house the collection of the late newspaper publishing scion Joseph Pulitzer Jr.