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The year 1993 in art involved some significant events. Contents 1 Events 1.1 Full date unknown 2 Exhibitions 3 Awards 4 Works 5 Births 6 Deaths Events 7 March - Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV. 27 May – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected. 21 June - Tate St Ives gallery opens in Cornwall, England. Full date unknown Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube. The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak. A catalogue of Augustan portraits list 148 replicas of Augustus of Primaporta, plus six done as cameos. The earliest known replica of Augustus is made before 25 BC. The Barbie Liberation Organization, as a revolt against gender stereotypes, switches the voice boxes on a reported 300 talking G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls before returning them to stores. Exhibitions Kustom Kulture, Laguna Beach Art Museum Harold Parker retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery Venice Biennale shows several works by Young British Artists including Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided. Awards Archibald Prize: Garry Shead - Tom Thompson Schock Prize in Visual Arts: Rafael Moneo Turner Prize: Rachel Whiteread Wolf Prize in Arts: Bruce Nauman Works Peter Doig - Blotter Anya Gallaccio - Stroke Births This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. Deaths 26 January - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b.1912). 28 January - Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (b.1940). 30 January - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b.1904). 19 February - Pietro Pezzati, American painter (b.1902). 30 March - Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b.1922). 3 May - Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922). 30 May - Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1907). 6 September - Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (b. 1910). 7 December - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (b.1913).