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Overview of the events of 1968 in art
Overview of the events of 1968 in art
Events from the year 1968 in art.
Events
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March 5 – Musical chess match between
Marcel Duchamp and
John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic,
Toronto.
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May 2 –
Christ Church Picture Gallery in
Oxford, England, designed by
Powell and
Moya, is opened.
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June 3 –
Radical feminist
Valerie Solanas shoots
Andy Warhol at his New York City studio,
The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.
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July 17 – Release of the
animated
musical
fantasy film
Yellow Submarine in the
United Kingdom, directed by
George Dunning with art direction by
Heinz Edelmann.
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August 20 – The
National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir
Roy Grounds, is opened.
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September 15 – The
Neue Nationalgalerie in
West Berlin, Germany, designed by
Mies van der Rohe, is opened.
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November 7 – New building for the
São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in
Brazil, designed by
Lina Bo Bardi, is inaugurated.
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Rubens' The Adoration of the Magi (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at
King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
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William Anders –
Earthrise (photograph)
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Edward Bawden – Tottenham Hale and Highbury & Islington tile motifs on London Underground's
Victoria line
- Julia Black – Walthamstow Central tile motif on London Underground's
Victoria line
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Alexander Calder –
Gwenfritz (stabile)
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Donald De Lue –
The Special Warfare Memorial Statue
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Paul Delvaux –
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
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Mark di Suvero –
Snowplow (sculpture)
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Joseph Drapell –
Life (sculpture, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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Tom Eckersley – Finsbury Park, King's Cross St Pancras and Euston tile motifs on London Underground's
Victoria line
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M. C. Escher –
Metamorphosis III (colored
woodcut print)
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Alan Fletcher – Warren Street tile motif on London Underground's
Victoria line
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Ángela Gurría - Señal in
Mexico City, Mexico created for the occasion of the
1968 Summer Olympics
[1]
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Barbara Hepworth –
Two Figures (sculpture),
Three Obliques (Walk In) (sculpture)
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David Hockney
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Dani Karavan –
Monument to the Negev Brigade on hill overlooking
Beersheba, Israel (completed)
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Eduardo Kingman – Fin de Mascarada
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Joan Miró – begins series
The navigator's hope
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Henry Moore –
Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model)
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Robert Motherwell – Open #23 (loaned by
Graham Gund to
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Otto Muehl,
Günter Brus and other followers of
Viennese Actionism –
Kunst und Revolution (
performance art)
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Isamu Noguchi –
Octetra (concrete sculpture)
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Gerhard Richter –
Domplatz, Mailand ("Cathedral Square, Milan")
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Monica Sjöö –
God Giving Birth
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Kenneth Snelson –
Needle Tower
- Hans Unger – Blackhorse Road and Seven Sisters tile motifs on London Underground's
Victoria line
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David Wynne – River God Tyne and Swans in Flight (sculptures,
Newcastle Civic Centre)
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Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site (memorial column)
Births
Deaths
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February 11 –
Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born
1887)
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April 26 –
John Heartfield,
German graphic designer (born
1891)
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May 9 –
Harold Gray,
American cartoonist, created
Little Orphan Annie (born
1894)
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May 21 –
Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born
1894)
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May 28 –
Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born
1877)
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June 17 –
Cassandre, French graphic designer (born
1901)
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July 2 – Sir
Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877)
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July 16 –
William John Leech, Irish painter (born
1881)
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August 8 –
Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born
1893)
[3]
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October 2 –
Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887)
- November –
Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born
1902)
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November 2 –
Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born
1882)
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November 4 –
Michel Kikoine,
Litvak-born French painter (born
1892)
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November 11 –
Janet Sobel, Ukrainian American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting (born
1893)
- date unknown –
William Conor, Irish painter (born
1881)
See also
References