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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Exhibitions 4 Works 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• 12 June - Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
• The Keith Haring Foundation is established.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Bryan Westwood - Portrait of Elwyn Lynn

[edit] Exhibitions

• Jim Dine Drawings 1973-1987 at Minneapolis Institute of Art
• Robert Longo retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Magiciens de la terre at Centre Georges Pompidou

[edit] Works

• Yaacov Agam - Visual Music Orchestration

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 23 January - Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (b.1904).
• 1 February - Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).
• 9 February - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (b.1928).
• 17 February - Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b.1921).
• 9 March - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b.1946).
• 6 April - Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b.1906).
• 4 June - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b.1917).

[edit] July to December

• 29 August - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (b.1909).
• 11 November - Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b.1929).
• 22 November - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (b.1910).
• 31 December - Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (b.1898).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b.1900).