1998 in art explained

Events from the year 1998 in art.

Events

• April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. 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.^[1]
• 3 December – 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (or "Washington Declaration"), requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs.^[2]
• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.^[3]

Exhibitions

• 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.^[4]

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3^[5]
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle^[6]
• Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou^[7]
• Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon^[8]
• Turner Prize – Chris Ofili^[9]

Works

• Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon)^[10]
• Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan)^[11]
• Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England)^[12]
• Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space^[13]
• Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North^[14]
• David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon^[15]
• Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25)^[16]
• Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City^[17]
• Ron Mueck – Ghost^[18]
• Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry^[19]
• Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon)^[20]
• Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.)^[21]
• Piotr Uklański – The Nazis^[22]
• Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)^[23]

Publications

• Book: Fossi, Gloria. Botticelli. Primavera.. Inglese. 1998. Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. 978-88-09-21459-0.
• Book: Boyd, William. William Boyd (writer)

. William Boyd (writer). . Cambridge. 21 Publishing. 1998. 1-901785-01-7. A hoax biography, launched on 1 April.

Deaths

• 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908)^[24]
• 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (b. 1914)
• 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)^[25]
• 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)^[26]
• 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)^[27]
• 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)^[28]
• 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907)^[29]
• 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910)^[30]
• 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903)^[31]
• 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921)^[32]
• 18 May – Enid Marx, English textile designer (b. 1902)
• June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II (b. 1918)^[33]
• 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907)^[34]
• 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938)^[35]
• 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915)^[36]
• 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938)^[37]
• 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918)^[38]
• 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)^[39]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fans crown Shearer Angel of the North. BBC. 12 January 2018.
2. Web site: Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art. Commission for Looted Art in Europe. London. 1998.
3. Book: Knell. Simon. National Galleries. 2016. Routledge. 9781317432425. 232. en.
4. Web site: The 20th century giant, pioneer of abstract expressionism, gets retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. 6 November 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/20020308040306/http://edition.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9811/06/jackson.pollack/index.html. dead. 8 March 2002. CNN.
5. Web site: Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 finalist: Portrait of Allan Mitelman no 3 by Lewis Miller. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. 12 January 2018.
6. Web site: Wendell Castle. Mushroom House. 12 January 2018.
7. Web site: Constantine Andreou - IDTG. www.idtg.org. 12 January 2018. 28 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170528115932/http://www.idtg.org/archive/78-constantine-andreou/. dead.
8. Web site: Hugo Boss Prize 1998: Douglas Gordon. Guggenheim. 16 January 2008.
9. Web site: Turner Prize 1998 artists: Chris Ofili. Tate. 12 January 2018.
10. Web site: CultureNOW - Floribunda: Mark Calderon and City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. culturenow.org. 12 January 2018.
11. Web site: Alan Collins: Gallery. www.collinsculptor.com. 12 January 2018.
12. Web site: literary tourism: war of the worlds in woking, england - Book Punks. Book Punks. 18 November 2014.
13. Web site: Martin Creed, Work No. 200, Half the air in a given space, 1998. Installation view, 2014. - Martin Creed: What's The Point of It? - Paxman on WWI, Martin Creed and Beckett, Saturday Review - BBC Radio 4. BBC. 12 January 2018.
14. Web site: Angel of the North - sculpture by Gormley. Encyclopedia Britannica. 12 January 2018. en.
15. Web site: Australia. National Gallery of. Hockney: Imagining the Grand Canyon. nga.gov.au. 12 January 2018.
16. Alexander McQueen Joan Collection Fall 1998 Full Runway Show – #TBT w/Tim Blanks. 2014-03-20. Style.com. 2024-05-16. YouTube.
17. Web site: What's the Meaning Behind Those Peculiar Red Frames Found in Union Square Station?.
18. Web site: 'Ghost', Ron Mueck, 1998. Tate. 12 January 2018.
19. Web site: 'No Woman, No Cry', Chris Ofili, 1998. Tate. 12 January 2018.
20. Web site: Folly Bollards: Harlequin, (sculpture) Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution. collections.si.edu. 12 January 2018. en.
21. News: Forgey. Benjamin. THE CAPSTONE OF THE FEDERAL TRIANGLE. The Washington Post. 25 April 1998.
22. Web site: Piotr Uklański | the Nazis .
23. Web site: Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998. The Museum of Modern Art. 12 January 2018. en.
24. Web site: Obituary: Victor Pasmore. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription. The Independent. 26 January 1998.
25. Web site: Østby. Leif. Karen Holtsmark. Norsk kunstnerleksikon. 12 January 2018. no. 20 February 2017.
26. Web site: Obituary: Beatrice Wood. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-beatrice-wood-1151106.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription. The Independent. 19 March 1998.
27. Web site: Obituary: Bill Reid. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-bill-reid-1159806.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 13 May 1998.
28. Web site: Wolf Vostell. The Museum of Modern Art. 12 January 2018. en.
29. Web site: J. McIntosh Patrick 1907-1998. Tate. 12 January 2018.
30. Web site: Wright Morris - American writer and photographer. Encyclopedia Britannica. 12 January 2018. en.
31. Book: Warren. Lynne. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. 2005. Routledge. 9781135205362. 334. en.
32. Web site: Obituary: Sybil Connolly. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sybil-connolly-1157384.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 26 May 1998.
33. Web site: Polish artwork returned from the United States. www.washington.mfa.gov.pl. 12 January 2018. en. 3 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221030/http://www.washington.mfa.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/news/polish_artwork_returned_from_the_united_states__. dead.
34. Web site: Zhang Chongren. Oxford Reference. 2012. 12 January 2018. 10.1093/acref/9780199923014.001.0001. 9780199923014.
35. Web site: Obituaries: Dick Higgins. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-dick-higgins-1187156.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 25 November 1998.
36. Web site: Obituary: Bob Kane. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bob-kane-1183230.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 7 November 1998.
37. Web site: Claude Serre - Le site officiel. serre-humour.com. 12 January 2018. fr.
38. Web site: Obituary: Brian Stonehouse. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-brian-stonehouse-1075034.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription. The Independent. 20 January 1999.
39. Web site: Obituary: Joan Brossa. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-joan-brossa-1045454.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription. The Independent. 7 January 1999.