[edit] Events - Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
- Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
- 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.(reference corrected by the artist)
[edit] Awards [edit] Paintings [edit] Exhibitions [edit] Births [edit] Deaths - 17 January - Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905).
- 27 January - Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905).
- 6 February - Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894).
- 10 June - Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894).
- 29 June - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914).
- 11 September - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b.1902).
- 17 September - Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909).
- 10 October - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908).
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