Events from the year 1987 in art.
Events 10 December – Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) opens as a separate institution. 22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August.
Exhibitions November 20 until January 24, 1988 - Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective at the New Museum in New York City.
Awards Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait John Moores Painting Prize - Tim Head for "Cow mutations" Turner Prize – Richard Deacon Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton.
Works
Alice Aycock – Three-Fold Manifestation II (sculpture) Wayne Chabre – John von Neumann (gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon) Martin Creed – Work No. 1 Jim Gray – Statue of Dolly Parton (bronze sculpture, Sevierville, Tennessee) Rose Finn-Kelcey – Bureau de Change (installation) Anselm Kiefer – Osiris and Isis Ulrich Rückriem – Untitled (granite sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago) Richard Serra – Fulcrum (Cor-Ten steel sculpture, Broadgate, City of London) Andres Serrano – Piss Christ (photograph) Frank Stella – Decanter (sculpture, Houston, Texas) Werner Tübke – Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany Ernest Zobole – House Interior in Landscape
Births 1 August – CJ de Silva, Filipino art director, painter, graphic designer and illustrator Xyza Cruz Bacani, Filipina street photographer Ibrahim Mahama, Ghanaian installation artist
Deaths
January to June 14 February – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (b. 1899) 18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter (b. 1908) 22 February – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (b. 1928) 26 March – Georg Muche, German painter (b. 1895) 19 April – Milt Kahl, American animator (b. 1909) 8 June - Alexander Iolas, Egyptian born Greek gallerist and collector (b. 1908)
July to December 30 July – Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator and art collector (b. 1909) 29 August – Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. c.1938) September – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican painter and poet (b. 1904). 25 September – Harry Holtzman, American artist (b. 1912). 4 October – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947). 27 October – Jean Hélion, French painter (b. 1904)Hélion, J. (2004). Jean Hélion. London: Paul Holberton Pub. 28 October – André Masson, French graphic artist (b. 1896)McCloskey, Barbara. Artists of World War II. London: Greenwood Press, 2005, , page 34. 4 November – Raphael Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b. 1899). 15 November – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (b. 1902). 2 December – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (b. 1926) 18 December - Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
Full date unknown Roland Ansieau, French Art Deco graphic artist (b. 1901). Huang Yao, Chinese artist (b. 1917) Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (b. 1920). Myron Stout, American abstract painter (b. 1908).
See also 1987 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
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