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Events from the year 1982 in art.

Events

  • June 26 – The Paul Delvaux Museum in Saint-Idesbald, Belgium, is inaugurated with Paul Delvaux present.
  • July 22 – An 1847 bronze casting of a statue of politician William Huskisson by John Gibson is removed by night from its original plinth in Liverpool (England) by activists because of the subject's support for the slave trade.
  • May 23 – Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, released today.
  • December 28 – Snow v Eaton Centre Ltd decided: the Ontario High Court of Justice affirms the artist's right to integrity of his work.
  • Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
  • Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.

Awards

  • Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Peter Sculthorpe
  • John Moores Painting Prize - John Hoyland for "Broken Bride 13.6.82"
  • John Player Portrait Award: Humphrey Ocean

Films

  • 66 Scenes from America

Works

Paintings

  • Michael Andrews – Sax AD 832
  • Avigdor Arikha – Marie-Catherine
  • Wolf Kahn – My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
  • Mary Lovelace O'Neal - It Takes Three (to do it) (from the Whales Fucking seria c. 1981-82)
  • Henry Moore – The Artist's Hands I (charcoal, wax crayon and ballpoint pen)
  • Malcolm Morley - Cradle of Civilization with American Woman
  • Euan Uglow – Zagi
  • Art Fills the Void

Other

  • Arman - Long Term Parkingn (Accumulation of 60 Automobiles in Concrete) installed at the Château de Montcel in Jouy-en-Josas, France
  • Joseph Beuys – 7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration at Documenta 7, Kassel
  • Daniel Buren – "Les Guirlandes" (The Garlands at Documenta 7, Kassel
  • John Seward Johnson II – Double Check (sculpture in New York City)
  • Joan Miró and Joan Gardy Artigas – Dona i Ocell (tiled sculpture in Barcelona)
  • Pan He – Zhuhai Fisher Girl (sculpture)
  • Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle – Fontaine des automates, Paris

Births

  • October 20 – Adela Jušić, contemporary visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • December 10 – Zuzana Čížková, Czech painter and sculptor
  • December 16 – Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (d. 2010)
  • María Berrío, Colombian-born graphic artist
  • Tris Vonna-Michell, British installation artist
  • Approximate date – Bambi, English graffiti artist

Deaths

  • January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905)
  • January 27 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905)
  • February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894)
  • June 10 – Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894)
  • June 29 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914)
  • August 3 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (b.1927)
  • September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)
  • September 17 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor, and lithographer (b.1909)
  • October 9 – Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer (b.1896)
  • October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908)
  • November 3 – Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect (b. 1889)
  • November 27 – Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer (b. 1931)

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