1967 in art
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See also: 1966 in art, other events of 1967, 1968 in art, list of years in art.
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[edit] Events
- Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
- Sir Roy Strong becomes Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Michael Fried publishes his influential critique of Minimal art, Art and Objecthood, in Art Forum.
- Sol LeWitt publishes Paragraphs on Conceptual Art in Art Forum.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab - Margo Lewers
[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
