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1995 art
Events from the year 1995 in art.
Events
January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Mario Botta, opens.
June – Narendra Patel's sculpture Jantar-Mantar, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.,Bendiner Kenneth From the Chair http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/arthistory/news/oeuvre4_08.pdf Oeuvre Newsletter UWM Art History Department 2012-11-05 is dedicated.
November 28 – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Richard Meier, opens.
Exhibitions
October 22 – Brilliant!, an exhibition by the Young British Artists group (who also feature heavily in this year’s British Art Show), opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.Sarah Lyall https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/magazine/is-it-art-or-just-dead-meat.html?pagewanted=1 Is it art or is it just dead meat? The New York Times November 12, 1995https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/23/arts/art-review-some-british-moderns-seeking-to-shock.html?pagewanted=2 Roberta Smith Some British moderns seeking to shock New York Times November 23, 1995
Works
Category:1995 sculptures
Larry D. Alexander – Clinton Family Portrait
Ilan Averbuch – Little Prince (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Reichstag" in Berlin, Germany
Tracey Emin – Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 ("The Tent")
Helen Frankenthaler - Cassishttps://gagosian.com/news/museum-exhibitions/helen-frankenthaler-late-works-weatherspoon-art-museum-university-of-north-carolina-greensboro/ Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003 2 June 2021https://www.judydworin.org/colorfields ColorFields – Judy Dworin Performance Project
Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
Antony Gormley – Havmannen (sculpture)
Marcus Harvey – Myra
Philip Jackson (sculptor)
Dolphin Group
Jersey Liberation Memorial
Maggie Reading
Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw – Perpetual Motion (sculpture, Naas by-pass, Ireland)
Nabil Kanso – series
The Raven
Andrzej Kiciński and Jerzy Sikorski - 1st Armoured Division Memorial (sculpture, Warsaw, Poland)
Yue Minjun - Execution
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton (sculpture)
Cornelia Parker – Embryo Firearms (preempted objects)
Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton – The Maybe (performance piece)
Nari Ward - Peace Keeperhttps://sum.cuny.edu/new-museum-black-grief-art-nari-ward-peace-keeper/ Feathers on a Burnt-Out Hearse: Black Grief and Nari Ward's 'Peace Keeper' 25 February 2021
Awards
Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet
John Moores Painting Prize - David Leapman for "Double-Tongued Knowabilityhttp://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/david_leapman.aspx David Leapman - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018
Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg
Turner Prize – Damien Hirst (Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger were shortlisted).
The Venice Biennial
The Golden Lion for best Pavilion : Akram El-Magdoub, Hamdi Attia, Medhat Shafik, and Khaled Shokry representing Egypt
Deaths
January to June
February – Robert Stewart, Scottish textile designer (b. 1924)
March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
April 1 – Dame Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British studio potter (b. 1902)
April 3 – Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (b. 1892)
April 15 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter (b. 1903)
April 24 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch magic realist painter (b. 1903)
May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (b. 1906)
May 30 – William McVey, American sculptor (b. 1905)
June 22 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
July to December
July 4 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (b.1942)
July 24 – George Rodger, English photographer (b.1908)
August 23 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German American photographer (b.1898)
August 28 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b.1916)
September 3 – Mary Adshead, English painter (b.1904)OBITUARY: Mary Adshead https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 21 February 2020 en 7 September 1995
October 21
Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author and artist (b.1919)
Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (b.1939)
October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1909).
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Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916)
Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art (b.1940)
References
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