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Events from the year 1987 in art.

Events

  • 10 December – Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) opens as a separate institution.
  • 22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August.

Exhibitions

  • November 20 until January 24, 1988 - Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective at the New Museum in New York City.

Awards

  • Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait
  • John Moores Painting Prize - Tim Head for "Cow mutations"
  • Turner Prize – Richard Deacon

:Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton.

Works

  • Alice Aycock – Three-Fold Manifestation II (sculpture)
  • Wayne Chabre – John von Neumann (gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon)
  • Martin Creed – Work No. 1
  • Rose Finn-Kelcey – Bureau de Change (installation)
  • Anselm Kiefer – Osiris and Isis
  • Ulrich Rückriem – Untitled (granite sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Richard Serra – Fulcrum (Cor-Ten steel sculpture, Broadgate, City of London)
  • Andres Serrano – Piss Christ (photograph)
  • Frank Stella – Decanter (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
  • Werner Tübke – Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany
  • Ernest Zobole – House Interior in Landscape

Births

  • 1 August – CJ de Silva, Filipino art director, painter, graphic designer and illustrator
  • Xyza Cruz Bacani, Filipina street photographer
  • Ibrahim Mahama, Ghanaian installation artist

Deaths

January to June

  • 14 February – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (b. 1899)
  • 18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter (b. 1908)
  • 22 February – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (b. 1928)
  • 26 March – Georg Muche, German painter (b. 1895)
  • 19 April – Milt Kahl, American animator (b. 1909)
  • 8 June - Alexander Iolas, Egyptian born Greek gallerist and collector (b. 1908)

July to December

  • 30 July – Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator and art collector (b. 1909)
  • 29 August – Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. c.1938)
  • September – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican painter and poet (b. 1904).
  • 25 September – Harry Holtzman, American artist (b. 1912).
  • 4 October – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947).
  • 27 October – Jean Hélion, French painter (b. 1904)
  • 28 October – André Masson, French graphic artist (b. 1896)
  • 4 November – Raphael Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b. 1899).
  • 15 November – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (b. 1902).
  • 2 December – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (b. 1926)
  • 18 December - Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (b. 1921)

Full date unknown

  • Roland Ansieau, French Art Deco graphic artist (b. 1901).
  • Huang Yao, Chinese artist (b. 1917)
  • Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (b. 1920).
  • Myron Stout, American abstract painter (b. 1908).

See also

  • 1987 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References