1998 in art
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The year 1998 in art involves various significant events.
Events
- April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. decorate the newly erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt. Police remove the shirt after about twenty minutes.[1]
- 3 December – 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (or "Washington Declaration"), requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs.[2]
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.[3]
Exhibitions
- 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.[4]
Awards
- Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3[5]
- Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle[6]
- Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou[7]
- Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon[8]
- Turner Prize – Chris Ofili[9]
Artworks
- Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)[10]
- Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)[11]
- Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)[12]
- Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space[13]
- Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North[14]
- David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon[15]
- Ron Mueck – Ghost[16]
- Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry[17]
- Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)[18]
- Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)[19]
- Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)[20]
Publications
- Fossi, Gloria (1998). Botticelli. Primavera (Inglese ed.). Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. ISBN 978-88-09-21459-0. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- Boyd, William (1998). Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960. Cambridge: 21 Publishing. ISBN 1-901785-01-7. A hoax biography, launched on April 1.
Deaths
- 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)[21]
- 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)[22]
- 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)[23]
- 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)[24]
- 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)[25]
- 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)[26]
- 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)[27]
- 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)[28]
- June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II (b. 1918)[29]
- 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)[30]
- 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)[31]
- 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)[32]
- 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)[33]
- 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwrigt, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)[34]
- Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)[35]
- Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)[36]
References
- ^ "Fans crown Shearer Angel of the North". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art". London: Commission for Looted Art in Europe. 1998. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ^ Knell, Simon (2016). National Galleries. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 9781317432425.
- ^ "CNN - TravelGuide - MoMA shows Jackson Pollock retrospective - Nov. 6, 1998". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Wendell Castle". Mushroom House. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Constantine Andreou - IDTG". www.idtg.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Hugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon". Guggenheim. 16 January 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Turner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council". culturenow.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Alan Collins: Gallery". www.collinsculptor.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks". Book Punks. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Martin Creed, Work No. 200, Half the air in a given space, 1998. Installation view, 2014. - Martin Creed: What's The Point of It? - Paxman on WWI, Martin Creed and Beckett, Saturday Review - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Angel of the North - sculpture by Gormley". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Australia, National Gallery of. "Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Forgey, Benjamin (25 April 1998). "THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE". Washington Post. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Victor Pasmore". The Independent. 26 January 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Østby, Leif (20 February 2017). "Karen Holtsmark". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Beatrice Wood". The Independent. 19 March 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Bill Reid". The Independent. 13 May 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Wright Morris - American writer and photographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Routledge. p. 334. ISBN 9781135205362.
- ^ "Obituary: Sybil Connolly". The Independent. 26 May 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Polish artwork returned from the United States". www.washington.mfa.gov.pl. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Zhang Chongren". Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001/acref-9780199923014-e-4394. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituaries: Dick Higgins". The Independent. 25 November 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Bob Kane". The Independent. 7 November 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Brian Stonehouse". The Independent. 20 January 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Joan Brossa". The Independent. 7 January 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Claude Serre - Le site officiel". serre-humour.com (in French). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Wolf Vostell". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.