# 1988 in art

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Events from the year 1988 in art.

## Events

* Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
* Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio.
* David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California.

## Exhibitions

* July – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
* September 18 until September 24 - White Room: Bill Albertini at White Columns in New York City.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard
* Turner Prize – Tony Cragg

## Works

* Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – Aboriginal Memorial
* Francis Bacon – Second Version of Triptych 1944
* Gordon Bennett – Outsider
* Wayne Chabre
** Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon)
*** Alan Turing
*** Drosophila Fly Head
** Grasshopper (sculpture, Salem, Oregon)
* Eldon Garnet – Little Glenn (bronze statue)
* Rachel Joynt – People's Island (brass installation, Dublin)
* Chris Killip – In Flagrante (photographic book)
* Judith Weinshall Liberman – Holocaust Wall Hangings (first works in series)
* Richard Lippold – Ex Stasis (sculpture)
* Paul Matisse – Kendall Band (sound sculpture)
* David K. Nelson, Jr. – Mirth & Girth
* Louise Nevelson – Sky Landscape (sculpture)
* Éamonn O'Doherty – Anna Livia (bronze installation, Dublin)
* Fred Parhad – Ashurbanipal (bronze, San Francisco)
* Zlatko Pounov and Steven Lowe – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco)
* Paula Rego – The Dance
* Gerhard Richter – Betty
* Susan Dorothea White – The First Supper
* Christopher Wool – Apocalypse Now ("word painting")

## Births

* 12 September – Alireza Shojaian, Iranian painter

## Deaths
### January to June

* 19 January – Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in conservation-restoration theory (b. 1906).
* 31 January – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
* 3 February – Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
* 19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
* 28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
* 31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
* 2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
* 3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
* 17 April
** Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907]).
** Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
* 26 April – Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b. 1923)
* 4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
* 6 May – Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
* 16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).
* 16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).

### July to December

* 12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b. 1910).
* 24 July – Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b. 1919).
* 12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter, suicide (b. 1960).
* 21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
* 26 September – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b. 1913).
* 29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
* 28 October – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)
* 12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
* 25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])
* 2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
* 30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).

### Date unknown

* Reginald George Haggar, English ceramic designer (b. 1905).