1967 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
*Sir Roy Strong becomes Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
*Michael Fried publishes his influential critique of Minimal art, "Art and Objecthood", in "Art Forum".
*Sol LeWitt publishes "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" in "Art Forum".
*Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual exhibition features a new generation of American artists born in the late 1930s and 1940s. Among the artists exhibited - some for the first time at the Whitney are John Altoon, Edward Avedisian, Jo Baer, Dan Christensen, Ronald Davis, Joe Goode, Ronnie Landfield, Robert Mangold, Ed Ruscha, and Peter Young and several others.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab - "Margo Lewers"

Works

*Max Ernst - "Corps Enseignant Pour une École de Tueurs"
*Henry Moore - "Nuclear Energy" is unveiled on the campus of the University of Chicago, twenty-five years to the minute (3:36 p.m., December 2, 1967) after the team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, on the site of what used to be the University's football field bleachers (in the squash courts beneath which the experiments had taken place).

Births

*March 25 - Matthew Barney, multimedia artist

Deaths

*May 15 - Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (b. 1882)
*November 25 - Ossip Zadkine, sculptor and painter
* Johannes Itten, color theorist, painter and designer (b. 1888)