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1989 in art
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Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
Deaths
January to June
July to December
See also
References
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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.
[
1
]
October – The
Philip and Muriel Berman
Museum of Art opens at
Ursinus College
in
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
, United States.
[
2
]
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.
[
3
]
[
4
]
The Other Story
, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean, and Asian modernism, opens at the Hayward Gallery in
London
.
[
5
]
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
Bryan Westwood
–
Portrait of Elwyn Lynn
John Moores Painting Prize
–
Lisa Milroy
for "Handles"
[
6
]
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
See also:
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, Florida
[
7
]
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
↑
Roberts, Roxanne
(1 July 1989). "900 protest Corcoran cancellation; Group gathers at museum in support of Mapplethorpe".
The Washington Post
.
, cited in
Argetsinger, Amy
(4 April 2016).
"Here's what the dazzling 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe protest at the Corcoran looked like"
. Arts and Entertainment.
The Washington Post
. Retrieved
5 November
2021
.
↑
"Sharing Becomes High Art as New Berman Museum Opens at Ursinus College"
. 22 October 1989.
↑
"Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered"
Archived
5 April 2017 at the
Wayback Machine
, Tate Modern, 2013.
↑
"Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989"
, Afterall.
↑
Jean Fisher,
"The Other Story and the Past Imperfect"
, Tate Papers no. 12 (ISSN 1753-9854), Tate.
↑
"Lisa Milroy – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums"
.
Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
. Retrieved
28 November
2018
.
↑
"Ringling Museum mural captures the circus in a huge, Baroque way"
.
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