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1989 art
Events from the year 1989 in art.
Events
30 May – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The sculpture Goddess of Democracy (由女神, zìyóu nǚshén), constructed by students of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts from extruded polystyrene foam, is unveiled by protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Early on 4 June it is toppled by a tank.
12 June – The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. cancels Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition, "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment", because of its sexually explicit content.Roberts Roxanne Roxanne Roberts 900 protest Corcoran cancellation; Group gathers at museum in support of Mapplethorpe The Washington Post 1 July 1989, cited in https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/04/the-robert-mapplethorpe-protest-at-the-corcoran-was-one-of-washingtons-most-stunning/ Argetsinger Amy Amy Argetsinger Here's what the dazzling 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe protest at the Corcoran looked like The Washington Post Arts and Entertainment 4 April 2016 5 November 2021
October – The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art opens at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States.https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1989-10-22-2720231-story.html Sharing Becomes High Art as New Berman Museum Opens at Ursinus College 22 October 1989
December – Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes: Completion of restoration work on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican.
Bill Gates founds Corbis Corporation as Interactive Home Systems to license rights to visual media for digital display.
The Keith Haring Foundation is established.
Magiciens de la Terre exhibition opens at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette."Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered" https://web.archive.org/web/20170405034614/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/magiciens-de-la-terre-reconsidered 5 April 2017 , Tate Modern, 2013."Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989", Afterall.
The Other Story, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean, and Asian modernism, opens at the Hayward Gallery in London.Jean Fisher, "The Other Story and the Past Imperfect", Tate Papers no. 12 (ISSN 1753-9854), Tate.
Awards
Archibald Prize: Bryan Westwood – Portrait of Elwyn Lynn
John Moores Painting Prize – Lisa Milroy for "Handles"http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/lisa_milroy.aspx Lisa Milroy – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018
Exhibitions
Jim Dine Drawings 1973–1987 at Minneapolis Institute of Art
Robert Longo retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Magiciens de la terre at Centre Georges Pompidou
Works
Category:1989 sculptures
Yaacov Agam – Visual Music Orchestration
Wayne Chabre (Eugene, Oregon)
Marie Curie Gargoyle
Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle
Robert Coburn – Korean Temple Bell (installation, Portland, Oregon)
Peter Corlett – Man in the mud (diorama, Australian War Memorial)
Arturo Di Modica - Charging Bull
Tom Hardy, Lawrence Halprin, and Scott Stickney – Hatfield Fountain (Salem, Oregon)
John Keane – The Other Cheek
Odd Nerdrum – Dawn
Cornelia Parker – Thirty Pieces of Silver (installation)
Joel Shapiro - Untitled (sculpture)
William Woodward - The Greatest Show on Earth, Circus Museum and the Tibbals Learning Center at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Floridahttps://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/visualarts/ringling-museum-mural-captures-the-circus-in-a-huge-baroque-way/1270529/ Ringling Museum mural captures the circus in a huge, Baroque way
Births
7 November – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian conceptual artist and political activist.
Deaths
January to June
23 January – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (b. 1904)
1 February – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1918)
9 February – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (b. 1928)
17 February – Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b. 1921)
24 February – Mallica Reynolds ("Kapo"), Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader (b. 1911)
9 March – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
31 March – Piotr Belousov, Russian painter and graphic artist (b. 1912)
6 April – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b. 1906)
4 June
Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
Cecil Collins, English painter and printmaker (b. 1908)
9 June – Piotr Vasiliev, Russian painter (b. 1909)
July to December
5 July – Berthold Wolpe, German-born British printmaker and typeface designer (b. 1905)
10 August – Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b. 1900)
29 August – Sir Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist and wildlife painter (b. 1909)
24 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (b. 1894)
11 November – Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b. 1929)
12 November – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (b. 1899)
21 November – Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (b. 1903)
22 November – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (b. 1910)
21 December – Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-English photographer, co-founder of Autograph ABP (b. 1955)
28 December – William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (b. 1913)
31 December – Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (b. 1898)
date unknown
Francesco Di Cocco, Italian painter (b. 1900)
See also
1989 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
References
Category:1980s in art
Category:Years of the 20th century in art