1982 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
• Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
• Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens a gallery in Soho, London, which is placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Peter Sculthorpe

[edit] Works

• Wolf Kahn - My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
• Fontaine des automates, Paris, a collaboration between Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle
• Carousel In The Country, completed in Los Angeles, California by Robert Sherman.
• The Artists Hands I - By Henry Moore,using charcoal, waxcrayon and Ball point pen.

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Births

• Brian Watkins, painter
• Adobo, experimentalist

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Juan O'Gorman, painter and architect
• February 6 - Ben Nicholson, abstract painter, son of Sir William Nicholson
• June 10 - Gala Dalí, artist's model
• September 11 - Wifredo Lam, painter, sculptor and ceramic artist
• September 17 - Ettore DeGrazia, painter, sculptor and lithographer