Events from the year 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.
Exhibitions July – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London 18 September until 24 September - White Room: Bill Albertini at White Columns in New York City.
Awards Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard Turner Prize – Tony Cragg
Works
Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – Aboriginal Memorial Tina Allen – A. Philip Randolph Francis Bacon – Second Version of Triptych 1944 Gordon Bennett – Outsider Wayne Chabre Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon) Alan Turing Drosophila Fly Head Grasshopper (sculpture, Salem, Oregon) Eldon Garnet – Little Glenn (bronze statue) Rachel Joynt – People's Island (brass installation, Dublin) Chris Killip – In Flagrante (photographic book) 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). 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 neo-expressionist painter, suicide (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) 12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900). 25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.]) 2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904). 30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).Brenson, M. Isamu Noguchi, the Sculptor, Dies at 84. The New York Times 31 December 1988.
Date unknown Reginald George Haggar, English ceramic designer (b. 1905).
See also 1988 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
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