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Events
- 12 June - Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
- The Keith Haring Foundation is established.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Bryan Westwood - Portrait of Elwyn Lynn
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
Works
- Yaacov Agam - Visual Music Orchestration
Deaths
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).
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).
Full date unknown
- Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b.1900).
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