1998 in art

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Events

• April – Fans of Newcastle United FC 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.

Exhibitions

• 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle
• Grand Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou
• Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon
• Turner Prize – Chris Ofili

Artworks

Angel of the North was unveiled 16 February 1998

• Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North
• David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon
• Ron Mueck – Ghost
• Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry
• Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)

Publications

• Fossi, Gloria (1998). Botticelli. Primavera. (Inglese ed.). Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. ISBN 978-88-09-21459-0. http://books.google.com/?id=baMqgX2uDEYC. Retrieved 16 July 2010. 
• Boyd, William (1998). Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960. Cambridge: 21 Publishing. ISBN 1-901785-01-7.  A hoax biography, launched on April 1.

Deaths

• 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)
• 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)
• 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
• 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
• 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 21 April – Louis Maratier, French post-impressionist artist and painter (b. 1922)
• 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)
• 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)
• 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)
• 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)
• 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)
• 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b.1918)
• 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwrigt, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)