The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works. Events April – A Belgian activist group cuts off the left hand of a bronze Congolese figure in a monument to Leopold II of Belgium in Ostend as a protest against colonial atrocities. 24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists. 18 July – The subterranean Chichu Art Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima, designed by Tadao Ando, opens. 11 December – İstanbul Modern (art museum) is established in Turkey. The country's first modern art museum, the Doğançay Museum, opened earlier in the year, also in Istanbul; it is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Burhan Doğançay. Works David Backhouse – Animals in War Memorial (London) Banksy – Di-faced Tenner (multiple copies) Bruce Beasley – Encounter (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon) Lucian Freud – The Brigadier (portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles) Rachel Joynt – Noah's Egg (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland) Liz Magor – LightShed (installation, Vancouver) Cornelia Parker – Perpetual Canon (installation) Paula Rego – The Cake Woman Donald Wilson – Holon (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston, Texas) Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States: Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate Jaume Plensa – Crown Fountain Awards Archibald Prize – Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds Artes Mundi Prize – Xu Bing Beck's Futures – Saskia Olde Wolbers Hugo Boss Prize – Rirkrit Tiravanija Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers En Foco's New Works Photography Award – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz John Moores Painting Prize – Alexis Harding, Slump/Fear (orange/black) Wynne prize – George Tjungurrayi, Untitled Exhibitions Edward Delaney retrospective at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Drawings of Jim Dine at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s at the Brücke Museum, Berlin Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London Films Modigliani Deaths January to March 4 January – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933) 9 January – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924) 3 February - Ward Jackson, American painter (b. 1928) 7 February – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923) 4 March – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer