1968 in art
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Events
- March 5 - Musical chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto.
- July 17 - Release of the animated musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine in the United Kingdom, directed by George Dunning with art direction by Heinz Edelmann.
- New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in Brazil, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is built.
- Rubens' The Adoration of the Magi (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon - Lloyd Rees
- Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France
Exhibitions
- Eva Hesse - Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City
- Ralph Hotere - Black Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand
Works
- William Anders - Earthrise (photograph)
- Alexander Calder - Gwenfritz (stabile)
- Donald De Lue - The Special Warfare Memorial Statue
- Mark di Suvero - Snowplow (sculpture)
- M. C. Escher - Metamorphosis III (colored woodcut print)
- Barbara Hepworth - Two Figures (sculpture)
- Eduardo Kingman - Fin de Mascarada
- Joan Miró - begins series The navigator's hope
- Henry Moore - Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model)
- Robert Motherwell - Open #23 (loaned by Graham Gund to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Otto Muehl and followers of Viennese Actionism - Kunst und Revolution (performance art)
- Isamu Noguchi - Octetra (concrete sculpture)
- Kenneth Snelson - Needle Tower
- David Wynne - River God Tyne and Swans in Flight (sculptures, Newcastle Civic Centre)
- Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site (memorial column)
Births
- July 23 - Paulo Henrique (choreographer), Portuguese multidisciplinary artist
- December 23 - Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, documentary photographer
- date unknown - George Henry Smyth, Northern Irish artist
Deaths
- February 11 - Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born 1887)
- April 26 - John Heartfield, German graphic designer (b. 1891)
- May 21 - Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born 1894)
- May 28 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born 1877)
- July 2 - Sir Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877)
- July 16 - William John Leech, Irish painter (born 1881)
- October 2 - Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887)
- November - Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born 1902)
- November 4 - Michel Kikoine, Litvak-born French painter (born 1892)
- date unknown
- William Conor, Irish painter (born 1881)
- Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born 1893)
- Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born 1882)
See also
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