Timeline · 1990–1999
The 1990s (1990–1999) fall within Modernism's restless succession of movements, from Fauvism to abstraction. Across these years the gallery holds 1,398 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (57 works) and Lucian Freud among its most prolific hands.
Samson (Bairds Carryout) 1994 
Column VII 1994 
Beam XXIII (From the series "Beams") 1996 
Return of the Black Square IV 1996 
GRĂDINA DIN STRADA ROSMARIN 1993 
Η Προσκύνησις των διδασκάλων της αγιογραφίας 1990 
Ερωτικό. 1997 
Χωρίς Τίτλο 1997 
Χωρίς Τίτλο 1997 
Χωρίς Τίτλο 1997 
Λιμάνι 1994 
Χωρίς τίτλο 1997 
Λόγος 1992 
Νεκρή φύση. 1997 
Παράγκα στη θάλασσα 1990 
Είναι ευχάριστο να οδηγείς τη νύχτα, αρκεί να έχεις πολλά φώτα. 1991 
Week-end 1992 
Η Πύλη -2- 1998 
Χωρίς τίτλο 1994 
Κόκκινο Σπίτι 1991 
Ζέλντα G 1995 
Weiss, Samuel - Malerei, Die Eröffnung 1990 
Painting 1993 
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In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after claiming to respond to a disturbance. They…
The theft permanently changed museum-security discourse and left some of the world's most famous unrecovered artworks missing.
What else happened that dayOn 12 February 1994, the opening day of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, two thieves broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole the 1893 painted version of Edvard Munch's…
The theft made The Scream a benchmark example in modern museum-security debates.
What else happened that dayGustav Klimt's Portrait of a Lady was reported stolen from the Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi in Piacenza on February 22, 1997, shortly before a planned special exhibition and…
The theft and recovery made Portrait of a Lady one of the most discussed late Klimt works and a landmark modern art-crime case.
What else happened that dayOn 20 January 1996, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong officially opened the Singapore Art Museum in the restored former St. Joseph's Institution on Bras Basah Road. The museum had…
The opening gave Southeast Asian contemporary art a major collecting and exhibition platform in Singapore.
What else happened that dayThe Royal Academy of Arts opened Andrea Mantegna in its main galleries in London. The exhibition, organized with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and accompanied by a major…
The exhibition helped consolidate Mantegna's modern reputation as a foundational Renaissance experimenter in perspective, antiquity, and…
What else happened that dayARKEN Museum of Modern Art opened in Ishoj, near Copenhagen, on March 15, 1996. Designed by Soren Robert Lund after a 1988 architectural competition, the museum arrived during…
The opening helped anchor contemporary art in Copenhagen's wider regional cultural infrastructure.
What else happened that dayThe Museum of Modern Art opened Projects 57: Bul Lee, Chie Matsui, a two-person installation exhibition running from January 23 to March 25. The MoMA catalogue framed installation…
The exhibition helped position Lee Bul and Chie Matsui within an international contemporary-art discourse on installation, gender, and…
What else happened that dayOn January 6, 1998, Edvard Eriksen's bronze statue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen was decapitated for the second time in its history. The sculpture, unveiled in 1913 and based…
The attack reinforced the statue's paradoxical status as both cherished public art and a persistent site of symbolic vandalism.
What else happened that dayPablo Picasso's Tete de Femme was stolen from the Lefevre Gallery in London's Mayfair on March 6, 1997, by an armed robber. The theft belongs to a recurring late-20th-century…
The case reinforced the security risks surrounding gallery-held modern masterpieces.
What else happened that dayThe Community Artists' Collective's first show at its new 1501 Elgin location in Houston took place on February 11, 1990, in conjunction with Houston FotoFest. Founded in 1987 by…
The opening helped establish one of Houston's lasting Black artist-centered exhibition spaces.
What else happened that dayOn March 16, 1990, the radical feminist art collective SisterSerpents opened Rattle Your Rage: Women's Views of Their Oppressors in Chicago. The exhibition brought together work…
The exhibition anchored SisterSerpents' reputation as a confrontational feminist art collective of the early 1990s.
What else happened that dayOn January 7, 1998, a Greek votive stele dedicated to Zeus Meilichios, dated to the fourth century BCE, was stolen from the Louvre. The theft formed part of a troubling 1990s…
The theft became part of the security context that framed later scrutiny of Louvre losses in 1998.
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