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Events from the year 1967 in art, including major exhibitions, artworks, and developments in the global art world.

Events

  • May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
  • September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
  • December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
  • John Willett publishes Art in a City, a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
  • Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
  • The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels.

Exhibitions

  • February 28&ndash;May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
  • September&ndash;October – Im Spazio ("The Space of Thoughts") at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

Works

  • Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 (photograph)
  • Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
  • Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains (sculpture)
  • Max Bill – Rhythm in Space (sculpture)
  • Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (collage for record album cover)
  • Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie (sculpture)
  • Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
  • Edward Delaney – Wolfe Tone (bronze statue)
  • Jose de Rivera – Infinity (sculpture)
  • Dušan Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
  • Milton Glaser – Dylan (poster)
  • Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms (Orkney) (slate sculpture)
  • Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
  • David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
  • Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking (land art)
  • Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
  • Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird (sculpture)
  • Henry Moore – sculptures
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
  • Barnett Newman
  • Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
  • Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal). April 28 – October 29 – Expo 67 takes place in Montreal, Canada, as part of the International and Universal Exposition, featuring major contributions in art, architecture, and design, and attracting over 50 million visitors.
  • Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
  • Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
  • Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)
  • Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding
  • Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #20: Die
  • Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
  • Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two (sculpture)
  • Mark di Suvero – Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) (sculpture)
  • Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls (sculpture)
  • Andy Warhol
  • Big Electric Chair
  • I, a Man (film)
  • Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
  • James Wines – Three Bronze Discs (sculpture)
  • David Wynne – Bird Fountains (Ambassador College, Pasadena, California)

Births

  • January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
  • March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
  • March 10 – Tim Pitsiulak, Inuk artist
  • December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Prague
  • date unknown
  • Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
  • Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker

Deaths

  • January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer (born 1885)
  • January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist (born 1893)
  • January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists (born 1882)
  • January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter (born 1891)
  • January 31 – Oscar Fischinger, German born American animator, filmmaker and painter (born 1900)
  • February 17 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor (born 1885)
  • March 31 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (born 1895)
  • April 15 – Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (born 1892)
  • May 15
  • Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (born 1882)
  • Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
  • Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (born 1881)
  • May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (born 1888)
  • August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (born 1898)
  • August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter (born 1913)
  • September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter (born 1884)
  • October 27 – Marguerite Huré, French stained-glass artist (born 1895)
  • November 21 – Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1891)
  • November 22 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (born 1892)
  • December 12 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator (born 1914)

See also

  • 1967 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References