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Overview of the events of 1989 in art
Events from the year 1989 in art.
Events
- 30 May –
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The sculpture
Goddess of Democracy (由女神, zìyóu nǚshén), constructed by students of the
China Central Academy of Fine Arts from
extruded polystyrene foam, is unveiled by protestors in
Tiananmen Square,
Beijing. Early on 4 June it is toppled by a tank.
- 12 June – The
Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C. cancels
Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition, "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment", because of its sexually explicit content.
[1]
- October – The
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art opens at
Ursinus College in
Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States.
[2]
- December –
Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes: Completion of restoration work on
Michelangelo's
Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican.
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Bill Gates founds
Corbis Corporation as Interactive Home Systems to license rights to visual media for digital display.
- The
Keith Haring Foundation is established.
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Magiciens de la Terre exhibition opens at the
Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette.
[3]
[4]
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The Other Story, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean, and Asian modernism, opens at the Hayward Gallery in
London.
[5]
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
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Yaacov Agam – Visual Music Orchestration
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Wayne Chabre (Eugene, Oregon)
- Robert Coburn –
Korean Temple Bell (installation, Portland, Oregon)
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Peter Corlett –
Man in the mud (
diorama,
Australian War Memorial)
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Arturo Di Modica -
Charging Bull
- Tom Hardy,
Lawrence Halprin, and Scott Stickney –
Hatfield Fountain (Salem, Oregon)
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John Keane – The Other Cheek
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Odd Nerdrum –
Dawn
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Cornelia Parker – Thirty Pieces of Silver (installation)
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William Woodward - The Greatest Show on Earth,
Circus Museum and the Tibbals Learning Center at the
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, Florida
[7]
Births
Deaths
January to June
- 23 January –
Salvador Dalí, Spanish
surrealist artist (b. 1904)
- 1 February –
Elaine de Kooning, American
abstract expressionist painter (b. 1918)
- 9 February –
Osamu Tezuka, Japanese
manga artist,
animator and
producer (b. 1928)
- 17 February –
Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b. 1921)
- 24 February –
Mallica Reynolds ("Kapo"), Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader (b. 1911)
- 9 March –
Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
- 31 March –
Piotr Belousov, Russian painter and graphic artist (b. 1912)
- 6 April –
Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b. 1906)
- 4 June
- 9 June –
Piotr Vasiliev, Russian painter (b. 1909)
July to December
- 5 July –
Berthold Wolpe, German-born British printmaker and typeface designer (b. 1905)
- 10 August –
Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of
Henri Matisse (b. 1900)
- 29 August –
Sir Peter Scott, English
ornithologist, conservationist and wildlife painter (b. 1909)
- 24 October –
Doris Huestis Speirs,
Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (b. 1894)
- 11 November –
Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b. 1929)
- 12 November –
Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (b. 1899)
- 21 November –
Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (b. 1903)
- 22 November –
C. C. Beck, American
cartoonist and
comic book artist (b. 1910)
- 21 December –
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-English photographer, co-founder of
Autograph ABP (b. 1955)
- 28 December –
William Scott,
Ulster Scots painter (b. 1913)
- 31 December –
Lilly Daché, French
milliner and fashion designer (b. 1898)
- date unknown
See also
References
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Roberts, Roxanne (1 July 1989). "900 protest Corcoran cancellation; Group gathers at museum in support of Mapplethorpe".
The Washington Post., cited in
Argetsinger, Amy (4 April 2016).
"Here's what the dazzling 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe protest at the Corcoran looked like". Arts and Entertainment. The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
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"Sharing Becomes High Art as New Berman Museum Opens at Ursinus College".
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"Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered"
Archived 5 April 2017 at the
Wayback Machine, Tate Modern, 2013.
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"Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989", Afterall.
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^ Jean Fisher,
"The Other Story and the Past Imperfect", Tate Papers no. 12 (ISSN 1753-9854), Tate.
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"Lisa Milroy – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
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"Ringling Museum mural captures the circus in a huge, Baroque way".