1998 in art

none August 2020 1998 art Events from the year 1998 in art. 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.Fans crown Shearer Angel of the North http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/92891.stm BBC 12 January 2018 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.Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art http://www.lootedartcommission.com/Washington-principles Commission for Looted Art in Europe London 1998 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.Knell Simon National Galleries 2016 Routledge 9781317432425 232 https://books.google.com/books?id=eYFwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA232 en Exhibitions 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.The 20th century giant, pioneer of abstract expressionism, gets retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art 6 November 1998 http://edition.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9811/06/jackson.pollack/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020308040306/http://edition.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9811/06/jackson.pollack/index.html dead 8 March 2002 CNN Awards Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1998/17550/ www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au 12 January 2018 Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell CastleWendell Castle http://www.mushroomhouse.com/wendell-castle/ Mushroom House 12 January 2018 Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine AndreouConstantine Andreou - IDTG http://www.idtg.org/archive/78-constantine-andreou/ www.idtg.org 12 January 2018 28 May 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170528115932/http://www.idtg.org/archive/78-constantine-andreou/ dead Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas GordonHugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hugo-boss-prize-1998-douglas-gordon Guggenheim 16 January 2008 Turner Prize – Chris OfiliTurner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-1998/turner-prize-1998-artists-chris-ofili Tate 12 January 2018 Works thumb|16 February – Angel of the North unveiled in England Category:1998 paintings Category:1998 sculptures Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council http://culturenow.org/entry%26permalink%3D06575%26seo%3DFloribunda_Mark-Calderon-and-City-of-Portland-and-Multnomah-County-Public-Art-Collection-courtesy-of-the-Regional-Arts-Culture-Council culturenow.org 12 January 2018 4 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114801/http://culturenow.org/entry%26permalink%3D06575%26seo%3DFloribunda_Mark-Calderon-and-City-of-Portland-and-Multnomah-County-Public-Art-Collection-courtesy-of-the-Regional-Arts-Culture-Council dead Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)Alan Collins: Gallery http://www.collinsculptor.com/gallery/figures/legacy.html www.collinsculptor.com 12 January 2018 Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks http://www.bookpunks.com/literary-tourism-war-worlds-woking-england/ Book Punks 18 November 2014 Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given spaceMartin 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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01r4m4t/p01r4kn7 BBC 12 January 2018 Anthony Gormley – Angel of the NorthAngel of the North - sculpture by Gormley https://www.britannica.com/topic/Angel-of-the-North Encyclopedia Britannica 12 January 2018 en David Hockney – A Bigger Grand CanyonAustralia National Gallery of Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon https://nga.gov.au/hockney/grandcanyon/default.cfm nga.gov.au 12 January 2018 25 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200125201224/https://nga.gov.au/hockney/grandcanyon/default.cfm dead Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjSL5vNrbjM Alexander McQueen Joan Collection Fall 1998 Full Runway Show – #TBT w/Tim Blanks 2014-03-20 Style.com 2024-05-16 YouTube Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York Cityhttps://www.6sqft.com/the-meaning-behind-those-peculiar-red-frames-found-in-union-square-station/ What's the Meaning Behind Those Peculiar Red Frames Found in Union Square Station? Ron Mueck – Ghost'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mueck-ghost-t07445 Tate 12 January 2018 Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ofili-no-woman-no-cry-t07502 Tate 12 January 2018 Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:siris_ari_368936 collections.si.edu 12 January 2018 en Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)Forgey Benjamin THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/04/25/the-capstone-of-the-federal-triangle/b6b4c9b7-6f37-41d3-b18c-e6cbcaf3d179/ The Washington Post 25 April 1998 Edwina Sandys - Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontariohttps://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/culture/windsor-sculpture-park/sculptures-sculptors/eves-apple-edwina-sandys Eves Apple Edwina Sandys | City of Windsor Piotr Uklański – The Nazishttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/680618 Piotr Uklański | the Nazis 1998 Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/82016 The Museum of Modern Art 12 January 2018 en Publications Fossi Gloria Botticelli. Primavera. https://books.google.com/books?id=baMqgX2uDEYC Inglese 1998 Giunti Editore Firenze Italy 978-88-09-21459-0 William Boyd (writer) Boyd William Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 Cambridge 21 Publishing 1998 1-901785-01-7 A hoax biography, launched on 1 April. Deaths 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)Obituary: Victor Pasmore https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html 1 May 2022 subscription The Independent 26 January 1998 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (b. 1914) 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)Østby Leif Karen Holtsmark https://nkl.snl.no/Karen_Holtsmark Norsk kunstnerleksikon 12 January 2018 no 20 February 2017 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)Obituary: Beatrice Wood https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-beatrice-wood-1151106.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-beatrice-wood-1151106.html 1 May 2022 subscription The Independent 19 March 1998 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)Obituary: Bill Reid https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-bill-reid-1159806.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-bill-reid-1159806.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 13 May 1998 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)Wolf Vostell https://www.moma.org/artists/6191 The Museum of Modern Art 12 January 2018 en 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/j-mcintosh-patrick-1747 Tate 12 January 2018 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)Wright Morris - American writer and photographer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wright-Morris Encyclopedia Britannica 12 January 2018 en 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)Warren Lynne Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set 2005 Routledge 9781135205362 334 https://books.google.com/books?id=31VsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA334 en 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)Obituary: Sybil Connolly https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sybil-connolly-1157384.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sybil-connolly-1157384.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 26 May 1998 18 May – Enid Marx, English textile designer (b. 1902) June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II (b. 1918)Polish artwork returned from the United States http://www.washington.mfa.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/news/polish_artwork_returned_from_the_united_states__ www.washington.mfa.gov.pl 12 January 2018 en 3 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221030/http://www.washington.mfa.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/news/polish_artwork_returned_from_the_united_states__ dead 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)Zhang Chongren http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001/acref-9780199923014-e-4394?result=7&rskey=oTYukT Oxford Reference 2012 12 January 2018 10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001 9780199923014 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)Obituaries: Dick Higgins https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-dick-higgins-1187156.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-dick-higgins-1187156.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 25 November 1998 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)Obituary: Bob Kane https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bob-kane-1183230.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bob-kane-1183230.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 7 November 1998 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)Claude Serre - Le site officiel http://serre-humour.com/Biographie serre-humour.com 12 January 2018 fr 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)Obituary: Brian Stonehouse https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-brian-stonehouse-1075034.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-brian-stonehouse-1075034.html 1 May 2022 subscription The Independent 20 January 1999 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)Obituary: Joan Brossa https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-joan-brossa-1045454.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-joan-brossa-1045454.html 1 May 2022 subscription The Independent 7 January 1999 References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1990s in art