SEPTEMBER The Demuth Museum celebrated its twenty-five year history with the exhibition 25 Years of the Demuth: Homage and Hurrah! Two years after the Edvard Munch masterpieces The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, Oslo Police recovered the two masterpieces in a bold daylight raid, according to the authorities. The first exhibition at the Louvre devoted to American artists, “American Artists and the Louvre” opened with a selection of thirty masterworks of American painting. The Norton Museum of Art opened Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Drawings, a carefully selected exhibition featuring nine works by one of America's most admired artists. The Granet Museum opened Cézanne en Provence. Museum Kunst Palast opened Caravaggio. Busch-Reisinger Museum opened Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique. The designs For World Trade Center Towers were unveiled. The Kimbell Art Museum opened Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. Putin gave the US a sculpture for 9/11 5th anniversary. Titian, The Power of Portaits opened at the Musée du Luxembourg. The V&A’s opened Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design. An exhibition celebratated the fifth centennial of the death of Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 c. – Mantova, 1506) in Italy. The names of the 5 new Praemium Imperiale Laureates have been announced: Kusama Yayoi, painting; Christian Boltanski, sculpture; Frei Otto, architecture; Steve Rich, music; and Maya Plisetskaya , theatre/film. The Dayton Art Institute presents the American premier of Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth. The Royal Museums of Art and History present Masters of Pre-Columbian Art - The collection of Dora and Paul Janssen. The Museo Civico Archeologico presents Annibale Carracci, on view through January 7, 2007. The Royal Academy of Arts presents Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917). Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents I Like America - Fictions of the Wild West. Art Forum Berlin, the international trade fair for contemporary art, took place at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds from 30 September to 4 October 2006. It was announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales today that Nick Mourtzakis is the winner of the 2006 Dobell Prize for Drawing for his work, nature. insects plants flowers. shell fish corals. the microscopic creatures. dreams.