1989 in art

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Events

• 30 May – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The sculpture Goddess of Democracy (由女神, zìyóu nǚshén), constructed by students of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts from extruded polystyrene foam, is unveiled by protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Early on 4 June it is toppled by a tank.
• 12 June – Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
• December – Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes: Completion of restoration work on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican.
• Bill Gates founds Corbis Corporation as Interactive Home Systems to license rights to visual media for digital display.
• 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
• Peter Corlett – Man in the mud (diorama, Australian War Memorial)
• Cornelia Parker – Thirty Pieces of Silver (installation)

Births

• 7 November – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian conceptual artist and political activist.

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).
• 24 February – Mallica Reynolds ("Kapo"), Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader (b. 1911).
• 9 March – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946).
• 31 March - Piotr Belousov, Russian painter and graphic artist (b. 1912).
• 6 April – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b. 1906).
• 4 June – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917).
• 9 June - Piotr Vasiliev, Russian painter (b. 1909).

July to December

• 29 August – Sir Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist and wildlife painter (b. 1909).
• 24 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (b. 1894)
• 11 November – Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b. 1929).
• 21 November – Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (b. 1903).
• 22 November – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (b. 1910).
• 28 December – William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (b. 1913).
• 31 December – Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (b. 1898).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b. 1900).

See also

• 1989 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union