2008 in art

Events

• May – Police seize photographs by Bill Henson from an upcoming exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Australia, as potentially constituting child pornography.^[1]

Exhibitions

• 20 February – 18 May – National Gallery, Pompeo Batoni^[2]

Works

• Of All The People In All The World, installation and performance^[3] by Stan's Cafe

Awards

• Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret'
• Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir
• Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry
• Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum
• Turner Prize nominees – Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes.

Deaths

January to March

• 3 January – Joan Gillchrest, 89, British painter.
• 2 February – Roger Testu, French cartoonist (b.1913).
• 3 March – William Brice, American painter and teacher (b.1921).
• 11 March – Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (b.1955).
• 19 March – Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (b.1929).
• 28 March – Michael Podro, English art historian (b.1931).
• 29 March
  • Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b.1966).
  • Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (b.1929).

April to June

• 3 April – Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929).
• 6 April – John Plumb, English painter (b.1927).
• 9 April – Burt Glinn, American photographer (b.1925).
• 14 April – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b.1912).
• 16 April – Joseph Solman, American painter (b.1909).
• 23 April – Paul Wonner, American painter (b.1920).
• 25 April – Enrico Donati, Italian-born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (b.1909).
• 10 May – Herbert Albert, 82, British painter and etcher.
• 12 May – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b.1925).
• 15 May – Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (b.1921).
• 18 May – Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (b.1921).
• 21 May – Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (b.1931).
• 23 May – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (b.1918).
• 28 May – Beryl Cook, English painter (b.1926).
• 1 June
  • Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (b.1940).
  • Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b.1936).
• 18 June – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (b.1915).

July to December

• 7 July
  • Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (b.1933).
  • Fred Yates, English artist (b.1922).
• 19 July – Dave Pearson, English painter (b.1937).
• 1 August – Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (b.1922).
• 12 August – Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (b.1933).
• 18 August – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (b.1917).
• 23 August – John Russell, British American art critic (b.1919).
• 3 September – Derek Davis, English painter and potter (b.1926).
• 4 September – Alain Jacquet, French artist (b.1939).
• 12 September – Simon Hantaï, Hungarian abstract artist (b.1922).
• 1 October – Boris Efimov, Russian cartoonist and propaganda artist (b.1900).
• 7 October – Miles Richmond, English painter (b.1922).
• 11 October – William Claxton, American photographer (b.1927)
• 14 October – Ray Lowry, English cartoonist and illustrator (b.1944).
• 18 October – Gwyther Irwin, English abstract artist (b.1931).
• 15 November – Grace Hartigan, American Abstract Expressionist painter, (b.1922)
• 16 November – Jan Krugier, Polish born Swiss art dealer (b. 1928.
• 17 December – Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator, critic (b.1936)
• 27 December – Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (b.1938).
• 29 December - Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (b. 1935).

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