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Events from the year '''1968 in art'''.
==Events== *March 5 – Musical chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto. *May 2 – Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England, designed by Powell and Moya, is opened. *June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation. *July 17 – Release of the animated musical fantasy film ''Yellow Submarine'' in the United Kingdom, directed by George Dunning with art direction by Heinz Edelmann. *August 20 – The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, is opened. *September 15 – The Neue Nationalgalerie in West Berlin, Germany, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened. *November 7 – New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in Brazil, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is inaugurated. *Rubens' ''The Adoration of the Magi'' (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
==Awards== * Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – ''Lloyd Rees'' * Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France
==Exhibitions== * ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' - August 2 until October 20 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, United Kingdom then traveled to the United States * Eva Hesse – ''Chain Polymers'', Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City * Ralph Hotere – ''Black Paintings'', Auckland, New Zealand
==Works== * William Anders – ''Earthrise'' (photograph) * Edward Bawden – Tottenham Hale and Highbury & Islington tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line * Julia Black – Walthamstow Central tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line * Alexander Calder – ''Gwenfritz'' (stabile) * Donald De Lue – ''The Special Warfare Memorial Statue'' * Paul Delvaux – ''The Sacrifice of Iphigenia'' * Mark di Suvero – ''Snowplow'' (sculpture) * Joseph Drapell – ''Life'' (sculpture, Halifax, Nova Scotia) * Tom Eckersley – Finsbury Park, King's Cross St Pancras and Euston tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line * M. C. Escher – ''Metamorphosis III'' (colored woodcut print) * Alan Fletcher – Warren Street tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line * Ángela Gurría - ''Señal'' in Mexico City, Mexico created for the occasion of the 1968 Summer Olympics<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mexico68.org/es/esculturas/01.html | title=México 68 }}</ref> * Barbara Hepworth – ''Two Figures'' (sculpture), ''Three Obliques (Walk In)'' (sculpture) * David Hockney - ''Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy''<ref name='ChristiesDouble'>{{cite web|title=Hockney’s first double portrait is a masterpiece of pictorial drama|url=https://www.christies.com/en/stories/david-hockney-first-last-double-portrait-c23c5d87360e4f0386d060a8b5d625e1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20251126215928/https://www.christies.com/en/stories/david-hockney-first-last-double-portrait-c23c5d87360e4f0386d060a8b5d625e1|work=Christie's website|publisher=Christie's|accessdate=19 November 2025|archivedate=26 November 2025}}</ref> ** ''Marilyn Tapestry'' * Dani Karavan – Monument to the Negev Brigade on hill overlooking Beersheba, Israel (completed) * Eduardo Kingman – ''Fin de Mascarada'' * Joan Miró – begins series ''The navigator's hope'' * Henry Moore – ''Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model)'' * Robert Motherwell – ''Open #23'' (loaned by Graham Gund to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) * Otto Muehl, Günter Brus and other followers of Viennese Actionism – ''Kunst und Revolution'' (performance art) * Isamu Noguchi – ''Octetra'' (concrete sculpture) * Gerhard Richter – ''[https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/photo-paintings/buildings-5/cathedral-square-milan-4842 Domplatz, Mailand]'' ("Cathedral Square, Milan") * Monica Sjöö – ''God Giving Birth'' * Kenneth Snelson – ''Needle Tower'' * Hans Unger – Blackhorse Road and Seven Sisters tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line * David Wynne – ''River God Tyne'' and ''Swans in Flight'' (sculptures, Newcastle Civic Centre) * Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site (memorial column)
==Births== * May 21 – Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Swiss-born curator * June 3 – Eric White, American visual artist * July 6 – Gaspare Manos, Thai-Italian painter and sculptor * July 11 – Patrik Andiné, Swedish painter * July 23 – Paulo Henrique, Portuguese choreographer and multidisciplinary artist * August 16 – Wolfgang Tillmans, German fine-art photographer * September 17 – David Shrigley, British visual artist * December 13 – Michael Triegel, German painter * December 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Puerto Rican documentary photographer * ''date unknown'' **Sika Foyer, Togolese American artist **Juan Carlos Pinto - Guatemalan-born U.S. mosaic artist **Nahem Shoa, British portrait painter
==Deaths== * January 29 – Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese-born French painter and printmaker (born 1886) * February 11 – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born 1887) * April 26 – John Heartfield, German graphic designer (born 1891) * May 9 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created ''Little Orphan Annie'' (born 1894) * May 21 – Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born 1894) * May 28 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born 1877) * June 17 – Cassandre, French graphic designer (born 1901) * July 2 – Sir Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877) * July 16 – William John Leech, Irish painter (born 1881) * August 8 – Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born 1893)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44665/supplements/9487|title=Notices Under the Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27|date=29 August 1968|work=The London Gazette|page=9487|accessdate=7 May 2013}}</ref> * October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887) * November – Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born 1902) * November 2 – Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born 1882) * November 4 – Michel Kikoine, Litvak-born French painter (born 1892) * November 11 – Janet Sobel, Ukrainian American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting (born 1893) * December 2 – Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (born 1902) * ''date unknown'' – William Conor, Irish painter (born 1881)
==See also== * 1968 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
==References== {{reflist}}
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