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Events from the year 1998 in art.

## Events

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* 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.[1]
* 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.[2]
* Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.[3]

## Exhibitions

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* 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.[4]

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3[5]
* Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle[6]
* Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou[7]
* Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon[8]
* Turner Prize – Chris Ofili[9]

## Works

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16 February – Angel of the North unveiled in England

See also: Category:1998 paintings and Category:1998 sculptures

* Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)[10]
* Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)[11]
* Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)[12]
* Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space[13]
* Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North[14]
* David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon[15]
* Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25)[16]
* Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City[17]
* Ron Mueck – Ghost[18]
* Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry[19]
* Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)[20]
* Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)[21]
* Edwina Sandys \- Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontario[22]
* Piotr Uklański – The Nazis[23]
* Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)[24]

## Publications

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* 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

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* 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)[25]
* 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (b. 1914)
* 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)[26]
* 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)[27]
* 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)[28]
* 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)[29]
* 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)[30]
* 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)[31]
* 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)[32]
* 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)[33]
* 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)[34]
* 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)[35]
* 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)[36]
* 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)[37]
* 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)[38]
* 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)[39]
* 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)[40]

## References

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1. ^ "Fans crown Shearer Angel of the North". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
2. ^ "Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art". London: Commission for Looted Art in Europe. 1998.
3. ^ Knell, Simon (2016). National Galleries. Routledge. p. 232\. ISBN 9781317432425.
4. ^ "The 20th century giant, pioneer of abstract expressionism, gets retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art". CNN. 6 November 1998. Archived from the original on 8 March 2002.
5. ^ "Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
6. ^ "Wendell Castle". Mushroom House. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
7. ^ "Constantine Andreou - IDTG". www.idtg.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
8. ^ "Hugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon". Guggenheim. 16 January 2008.
9. ^ "Turner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
10. ^ "CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council". culturenow.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
11. ^ "Alan Collins: Gallery". www.collinsculptor.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
12. ^ "literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks". Book Punks. 18 November 2014.
13. ^ "Martin Creed, Work No. 200, Half the air in a given space, 1998. Installation view, 2014. - Martin Creed: What's The Point of It? - Paxman on WWI, Martin Creed and Beckett, Saturday Review - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
14. ^ "Angel of the North - sculpture by Gormley". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
15. ^ Australia, National Gallery of. "Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
16. ^ Alexander McQueen Joan Collection Fall 1998 Full Runway Show – #TBT w/Tim Blanks. Style.com. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2024 – via YouTube.
17. ^ "What's the Meaning Behind Those Peculiar Red Frames Found in Union Square Station?".
18. ^ "'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
19. ^ "'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
20. ^ "Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
21. ^ Forgey, Benjamin (25 April 1998). "THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE". The Washington Post.
22. ^ "Eves Apple Edwina Sandys | City of Windsor".
23. ^ "Piotr Uklański | the Nazis". 1998.
24. ^ "Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
25. ^ "Obituary: Victor Pasmore". The Independent. 26 January 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
26. ^ Østby, Leif (20 February 2017). "Karen Holtsmark". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
27. ^ "Obituary: Beatrice Wood". The Independent. 19 March 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
28. ^ "Obituary: Bill Reid". The Independent. 13 May 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
29. ^ "Wolf Vostell". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
30. ^ "J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998". Tate. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
31. ^ "Wright Morris - American writer and photographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
32. ^ Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Routledge. p. 334\. ISBN 9781135205362.
33. ^ "Obituary: Sybil Connolly". The Independent. 26 May 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
34. ^ "Polish artwork returned from the United States". www.washington.mfa.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
35. ^ "Zhang Chongren". Oxford Reference. 2012. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001. ISBN 9780199923014. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
36. ^ "Obituaries: Dick Higgins". The Independent. 25 November 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
37. ^ "Obituary: Bob Kane". The Independent. 7 November 1998. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
38. ^ "Claude Serre - Le site officiel". serre-humour.com (in French). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
39. ^ "Obituary: Brian Stonehouse". The Independent. 20 January 1999. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
40. ^ "Obituary: Joan Brossa". The Independent. 7 January 1999. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.

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