# 1998 in art

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Events from the year 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

* Fossi, Gloria (1998). Botticelli. Primavera (Inglese ed.). Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. ISBN 978-88-09-21459-0.
* Boyd, William (1998). Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960. Cambridge: 21 Publishing. ISBN 1-901785-01-7. 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)