1969 in art

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The year 1969 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
August 8 – Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in London.
October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television,^[1] with Terry Gilliam's animations.
October 18 – Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020.
November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the moon; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface.^[2]
c. December – The music and performance art collective COUM Transmissions is formed in England by Genesis P-Orridge.
Late – Andy Warhol, John Wilcock, and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview.
Opening of the Oakland Museum of California, designed by Kevin Roche.
Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician^[7]
July 11 – Abigail McLellan, British painter (d. 2009)
October 5 – Chantal Joffe, English painter
November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist
date unknown
- Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer^[8]
- Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
- Invader, French urban artist
- Patricia Martín, Mexican curator

January 29 – Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913)
March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898)
March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882)
May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth)
July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883)
July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (b. 1891)
August – Doris Brabham Hatt, English modernist painter (b. 1890)
September 15 – Edith Barry, American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883)
November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)