1998 in art

The year 1998 in art involves various significant events.

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Events

• April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. decorate the newly erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt. Police remove the shirt after about twenty minutes.[1]
• 3 December – 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (or "Washington Declaration"), requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs.[2]
• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.[3]

Exhibitions

• 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.[4]

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3[5]
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle[6]
• Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou[7]
• Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon[8]
• Turner Prize – Chris Ofili[9]

Artworks

16 February – Angel of the North unveiled

• Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)[10]
• Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)[11]
• Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)[12]
• Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space[13]
• Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North[14]
• David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon[15]
• Mary Miss - Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City[16]
• Ron Mueck – Ghost[17]
• Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry[18]
• Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)[19]
• Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)[20]
• Piotr Uklański - The Nazis[21]
• Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)[22]

Publications

• Fossi, Gloria (1998). Botticelli. Primavera (Inglese ed.). Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. ISBN 978-88-09-21459-0.
• Boyd, William (1998). Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960. Cambridge: 21 Publishing. ISBN 1-901785-01-7. A hoax biography, launched on 1 April.

Deaths

• 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)[23]
• 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)[24]
• 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)[25]
• 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)[26]
• 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)[27]
• 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)[28]
• 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)[29]
• 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)[30]
• 18 May – Enid Marx, English textile designer (b. 1902)
• June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II (b. 1918)[31]
• 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)[32]
• 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)[33]
• 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)[34]
• 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)[35]
• 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwrigt, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)[36]
• Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)[37]
• Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)[38]

References

1. "Fans crown Shearer Angel of the North". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
2. "Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art". London: Commission for Looted Art in Europe. 1998.
3. Knell, Simon (2016). National Galleries. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 9781317432425.
4. "The 20th century giant, pioneer of abstract expressionism, gets retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art". CNN. 6 November 1998. Archived from the original on 8 March 2002.
5. "Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
6. "Wendell Castle". Mushroom House. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
7. "Constantine Andreou - IDTG". www.idtg.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
8. "Hugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon". Guggenheim. 16 January 2008.
9. "Turner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
10. "CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council". culturenow.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
11. "Alan Collins: Gallery". www.collinsculptor.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
12. "literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks". Book Punks. 18 November 2014.
13. "Martin Creed, Work No. 200, Half the air in a given space, 1998. Installation view, 2014. - Martin Creed: What's The Point of It? - Paxman on WWI, Martin Creed and Beckett, Saturday Review - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
14. "Angel of the North - sculpture by Gormley". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
15. Australia, National Gallery of. "Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
16. https://www.6sqft.com/the-meaning-behind-those-peculiar-red-frames-found-in-union-square-station/
17. "'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
18. "'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
19. "Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
20. Forgey, Benjamin (25 April 1998). "THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE". The Washington Post.
21. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/680618
22. "Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
23. "Obituary: Victor Pasmore". The Independent. 26 January 1998.
24. Østby, Leif (20 February 2017). "Karen Holtsmark". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
25. "Obituary: Beatrice Wood". The Independent. 19 March 1998.
26. "Obituary: Bill Reid". The Independent. 13 May 1998.
27. "J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
28. "Wright Morris - American writer and photographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
29. Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Routledge. p. 334. ISBN 9781135205362.
30. "Obituary: Sybil Connolly". The Independent. 26 May 1998.
31. "Polish artwork returned from the United States". www.washington.mfa.gov.pl. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
32. "Zhang Chongren". Oxford Reference. 2012. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001. ISBN 9780199923014. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
33. "Obituaries: Dick Higgins". The Independent. 25 November 1998.
34. "Obituary: Bob Kane". The Independent. 7 November 1998.
35. "Obituary: Brian Stonehouse". The Independent. 20 January 1999.
36. "Obituary: Joan Brossa". The Independent. 7 January 1999.
37. "Claude Serre - Le site officiel". serre-humour.com (in French). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
38. "Wolf Vostell". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.