1998 in art

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.
• 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.
• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.

Exhibitions

• 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.

Awards

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

Works

• Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
• Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)
• Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)
• Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space
• Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North
• David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon
• Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25)
• Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City
• Ron Mueck – Ghost
• Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry
• Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)
• Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)
• Edwina Sandys - Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontario
• Piotr Uklański – The Nazis
• Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)

Publications

• A hoax biography, launched on 1 April.

Deaths

• 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)
• 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (b. 1914)
• 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)
• 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
• 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
• 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)
• 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)
• 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)
• 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)
• 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)
• 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)
• 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)
• 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)
• 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)
• 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)

References

References

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2. (1998). "Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art". Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
3. (2016). "National Galleries". Routledge.
4. (6 November 1998). "The 20th century giant, pioneer of abstract expressionism, gets retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art".
5. "Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller".
6. "Wendell Castle".
7. "Constantine Andreou - IDTG".
8. (16 January 2008). "Hugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon".
9. "Turner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili".
10. "CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council".
11. "Alan Collins: Gallery".
12. (18 November 2014). "literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks".
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".
14. "Angel of the North - sculpture by Gormley".
15. "Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon".
16. (2014-03-20). "Alexander McQueen Joan Collection Fall 1998 Full Runway Show – #TBT w/Tim Blanks". [[Style.com]].
17. "What's the Meaning Behind Those Peculiar Red Frames Found in Union Square Station?".
18. "'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998".
19. "'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998".
20. "Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) {{!}} Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution".
21. (25 April 1998). "THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE". The Washington Post.
22. "Eves Apple Edwina Sandys | City of Windsor".
23. (1998). "Piotr Uklański | the Nazis".
24. "Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998".
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26. (20 February 2017). "Karen Holtsmark".
27. (19 March 1998). "Obituary: Beatrice Wood".
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29. "Wolf Vostell".
30. "J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998".
31. "Wright Morris - American writer and photographer".
32. (2005). "Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set". Routledge.
33. (26 May 1998). "Obituary: Sybil Connolly".
34. "Polish artwork returned from the United States".
35. (2012). "Zhang Chongren".
36. (25 November 1998). "Obituaries: Dick Higgins".
37. (7 November 1998). "Obituary: Bob Kane".
38. "Claude Serre - Le site officiel".
39. (20 January 1999). "Obituary: Brian Stonehouse".
40. (7 January 1999). "Obituary: Joan Brossa".