Events from the year 1991 in art. Events 14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum. 25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. 9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened. September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen. Publications Charles, Prince of Wales - Watercolours. Eric Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble Exhibitions February 6 until May 6 - Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. December 13 until February 2, 1992 - Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts. Dance May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company Awards John Moores Painting Prize - Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son" Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor Works Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Arauz "The Umbrellas" (simultaneous sculptural instillations in California, U.S.A and Japan) - Christo and Jeanne Claude [[Chain Reaction (sculpture)|Chain Reaction]] (sculpture, Santa Monica, California) – Paul ConradField (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony GormleyIsolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien HirstThe Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien HirstCapitalism (sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry KirklandGuardians of the Gate (bronze, San Francisco) – Miles MetzgerCold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (installation) – Cornelia ParkerSelf (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc QuinnHost Analog (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) – Buster SimpsonCascade Charley'' (fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall Births Hannah Levy, American sculptor Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist. Deaths January to June 3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b. 1898). 11 January – Charles Mozley, British artist and art teacher (b. 1914) 7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b. 1927). 13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900). 15 March – Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter (b. 1928). 29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928). 10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902). July to December 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915). 3 August