1988 in art
Events
    
- Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
 - Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio.
 - David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California.[1]
 
Exhibitions
    
- July – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
 
Awards
    
- Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard
 - Turner Prize – Tony Cragg
 
Works
    
- Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – Aboriginal Memorial
 - Francis Bacon – Second Version of Triptych 1944
 - Gordon Bennett – Outsider
 - Wayne Chabre
- Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon)
 - Grasshopper (sculpture, Salem, Oregon)
 
 - Eldon Garnet – Little Glenn (bronze statue)
 - Rachel Joynt – People's Island (brass installation, Dublin)
 - Nabil Kanso – Dance of Salome (first series)
 - Judith Weinshall Liberman – Holocaust Wall Hangings (first works in series)
 - Richard Lippold – Ex Stasis (sculpture)
 - Paul Matisse – Kendall Band (sound sculpture)
 - David K. Nelson, Jr. – Mirth & Girth
 - Louise Nevelson – Sky Landscape (sculpture)
 - Éamonn O'Doherty – Anna Livia (bronze installation, Dublin)
 - Fred Parhad – Ashurbanipal (bronze, San Francisco)
 - Zlatko Pounov and Steven Lowe – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco)
 - Paula Rego – The Dance
 - Gerhard Richter – Betty
 - Susan Dorothea White – The First Supper
 - Christopher Wool – Apocalypse Now ("word painting")
 
Births
    
- 12 September – Alireza Shojaian, Iranian painter
 
Deaths
    
    January to June
    
- 19 January – Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in conservation-restoration theory (b. 1906).
 - 31 January – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
 - 3 February – Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
 - 19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
 - 28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
 - 31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
 - 2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
 - 3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
 - 17 April
- Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907]).
 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
 
 - 26 April – Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b. 1923)
 - 4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
 - 6 May – Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
 - 16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).[2]
 - 16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).
 
July to December
    
- 12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b. 1910).
 - 24 July – Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b. 1919).
 - 12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b. 1960).
 - 21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
 - 26 September – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b. 1913).
 - 29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
 - 28 October – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)[3]
 - 12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
 - 25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])[4]
 - 2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
 - 30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).[5]
 
Date unknown
    
- Reginald George Haggar, English ceramic designer (b. 1905).
 
References
    
- Gayford, Martin (2021). Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 132–3. ISBN 978-0-500-09436-5.
 - Douglas Martin (1993). Charles Keeping: An Illustrator's Life. Julia MacRae Books. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-85681-062-3.
 - The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1161.
 - Who was who in America. Marquis-Who's Who. 1989. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8379-0217-3.
 - Brenson, M. Isamu Noguchi, the Sculptor, Dies at 84. The New York Times December 31, 1988.
 
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.