1967 in art

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See also: 1966 in art, other events of 1967, 1968 in art, list of years in art.

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
• Sir Roy Strong becomes Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

[edit] Works

• Max Ernst - Corps Enseignant Pour une École de Tueurs
• Henry Moore - Nuclear Energy is unveiled on the campus of the University of Chicago, twenty-five years to the minute (3:36 p.m., December 2, 1967) after the team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, on the site of what used to be the University's football field bleachers (in the squash courts beneath which the experiments had taken place).

[edit] Births

• March 25 - Matthew Barney, multimedia artist

[edit] Deaths

• May 15 - Edward Hopper
• November 25 - Ossip Zadkine, sculptor and painter